Rihanna is back _ on the red carpet, at least.

Online retailers are shifting their marketing from traditional advertising to less expensive tools like Facebook.com and Twitter and e-mail as they seek market share or just work to retain customers, according to an industry study being released Tuesday.

One of the nation’s largest July Fourth fireworks shows will be held on the Hudson River this year to celebrate the 400th anniversary of English explorer Henry Hudson’s voyage to New York.

Dan Barber, a pioneer of the so-called farm-to-table restaurant movement, was named the nation’s top chef Monday by the James Beard Foundation.

Union workers at The New York Times will accept a 5 percent pay cut through the end of the year to help the newspaper avert more layoffs.

Pulitzer Prize winner Cormac McCarthy has received another literary honor.

Actor-director Woody Allen has asked a New York City judge to block ex-wife Mia Farrow and his current wife from being called as witnesses at a trial this month.

A New York City high school janitor who used city money to buy himself thousands of dollars worth of household goods including toilet paper and soap has been fined $20,000.

“Ruined,” Lynn Nottage’s Pulitzer Prize-winning drama set against the backdrop of an African civil war, has been named best play of the season by the New York Drama Critics’ Circle.

Media company E.W. Scripps, which earlier this year shut down Denver’s Rocky Mountain News, said Monday that weak advertising spending and a slew of charges led to a net loss in the first quarter.