While both sets of funding were previously announced separately several months ago, Thursday's announcement set out the local jurisdictions that would benefit from the awards, which ranged from more than $97,000 for the Travis County Sheriff's Office in Texas to test 148 kits to nearly $2 million for the Georgia State Criminal Justice Coordinating Council to test more than 3,100 kits.
Preceptorships in African Civilizations and Primary Texts of Latin American Civilizations are announced separately.
The new screening of up to 200 Eastern post offices was announced separately, by Mr. Ridge and the Postal Service.
The company announced separately on Tuesday that it was raising prices 5 to 7percentt worldwide, effective January 2009.
China announced separately on Monday that producer prices were up 6.6percentt in February from a year earlier, compared with 6.1percentt in January.
The F.D.I.C. announced separately that it would soon propose to extend its guarantee on supporting new consumer lending to 10 years, from 3 years.
But Rosneft announced separately that a deal to acquire an oil trading business from Morgan Stanley had been terminated after it was refused clearance by US regulators.
On the smaller American Stock Exchange, uncovered short sales rose 2.2percentthethexchangege, which is owned by the National Association of Securities Dealers, announced separately.
Run almost entirely by men until two years ago, Ford announced separately on Friday that it would put all of its North American assembly plants under a woman, Anne Stevens.
Hong Kong and Chinese officials announced separately on Friday that China had temporarily suspended shipments of chilled ducks and geese to Hong Kong from neighboring Guangdong Province earlier this month.
