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The new head of the Food and Drug Administration's tobacco agency pledged "efficient, effective and fair" regulation of tobacco products Thursday. "You all make a lawful product," Mitch Zeller, director of the FDA's Center For Tobacco Products, told...

Altria Group Inc.'s top executive told shareholders Thursday that the company expects to post better results this year after a good year in 2012. "Altria delivered strong results and returns for our shareholders in 2012," despite a "continuing...

University of North Carolina graduate Kimberlie Farlow decided in 1983 to leave her hometown and college town of Chapel Hill, N.C., and pursue a career in marketing and public relations in Richmond. Her friends, she said, gave her some cautionary...

For the fourth year in a row, six companies with headquarters in the Richmond region have made Fortune magazine's list of the 500 biggest U.S. companies. The magazine released its annual Fortune 500 list late Monday. It ranks publicly traded U.S....

By Shankar Ramakrishnan NEW YORK, April 29 (IFR) - Some of the US's biggest brand names raced to the market on Monday to lock in tight pricing on their deals before Apple comes to the market with its jumbo offering. A total of USD6.725bn was raised...

By John Balassi NEW YORK, April 29 (IFR) - Apple mandated Deutsche Bank and Goldman Sachs to lead bond investor calls beginning Monday for a potential first-ever debt sale by the company, adding momentum to a US high-grade market that was peppered with...

April 26 (Reuters) - The following are the top stories in the Wall Street Journal. Reuters has not verified these stories and does not vouch for their accuracy. * Late Thursday afternoon, in a 63-to-30 procedural vote, the Senate cleared the way for...

Reports: Initial jobless claims for week ended April 20, 7:30 a.m.; Mortgage rates for week ended April 25, 9 a.m.; Natural gas inventories for week ended April 20, 9:30 a.m.; Kansas City Fed manufacturing index for April, 10 a.m. Local earnings:...

No one under 21 would be able to buy cigarettes in New York City, under a new proposal announced Monday that marks the latest in a decade of moves to crack down on smoking in the nation's largest city.     New York City Council Speaker Christine Quinn...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Advocates for seniors say President Barack Obama is breaking his promise to protect Social Security, while conservatives say he is breaking his promise not to raise taxes on the middle class. Obama's budget proposal includes a...

RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — The U.S. government is abandoning a legal battle to require that cigarette packs carry a set of large and often macabre warning labels depicting the dangers of smoking and encouraging smokers to quit. Instead, the Food and...

NEW YORK (AP) — Anti-smoking advocates and health experts hailed proposals from Mayor Michael Bloomberg that would keep cigarettes out of sight in New York City stores, while tobacco companies and smokers called it an overreach. The ban, which...