FIRST homebuyers are using boosted government grants to snap up properties – in one instance for just $41,000.

Having recently completed the purchase of LaSalle Bank, Bank of America Chairman and Chief Executive Officer Kenneth Lewis is expected to be in Detroit today bearing gifts: $450,000 in grants from the bank’s charitable foundation for metro organizations and individuals.

Cleveland BioLabs cut its third-quarter losses by more than half because of Defense Department grants that the Buffalo-based life sciences company won earlier this year.

RESEARCH TRIANGLE PARK, N.C. & MIAMI—-The Alpha-1 Foundation announced today that it has awarded two new research grants for projects at the University of Florida and Brandeis University.

Five Newark area organizations including the University of Delaware were recently awarded state grants to help them develop or expand their recycling programs.

Lieutenant Governor Lee Fisher has announced that 87 communities were awarded more than $21 million in homeless prevention grants from the Homeless Assistance Grant Program.

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