Lorillard, the maker of Newport cigarettes, says its first-quarter profit rose 5.7 percent on higher prices and lower costs.

An unemployed woman who won $1 million in a Maine State Lottery game has collected her winnings _ four years after she bought the scratch ticket in a store that’s since burned down. Brenda Ripton told the Central Maine Morning Sentinel that she had receiv

Lineups for the Newport folk and jazz festivals indicate both are returning to their roots.

The Newport Jazz Festival is in the market for a new sponsor.

Police in Newport, N.H., say they dressed as firefighters to trick a man and arrest him after he pointed a shotgun at an officer.

The founder of the Newport folk and jazz festivals says he’s planning on producing both events again this summer.

Pencil the walking horse is back at home after being rescued from an icy pond in northern Kentucky where he was stuck for more than an hour. The Kentucky Enquirer reported that it took nearly 40 firefighters, including members of the Northern Kentucky Lar

EADS chief Louis Gallois said Tuesday that his priority during the financial crisis is protecting cash reserves, but that the aerospace and defense group is prepared to help customers struggling to raise money.

Former six-term Sen. Claiborne Pell has died after a long battle with Parkinson’s disease. He was 90.

A lady lobster with four claws was pulled from the deep this week in the waters off Newport. With a large crusher claw and three pincher claws _ instead of the usual one _ the crustacean was unlike anything 39-year-old lobsterman Patrick Marks had ever se