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WASHINGTON -- Philip Morris USA is pushing Congress to reject a tobacco buyout, a plan the nation's largest cigarette-maker supported as recently as last month. 'It's not a reversal,' said [...]

Residents of Tobaccoville have only one choice to make this election year - who will run their village for the next 24 months. Donald Rierson and Keith P. Snow are [...]

A day after it agreed to buy rival Brown & Williamson Tobacco Corp., R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Holdings Inc. reported continued weak sales that underscore the tough road that lies ahead [...]

Local community leaders greeted the news that Winston-Salem will remain a tobacco town with relief yesterday. And the possibility of about 800 new jobs cheered them even more. R.J. Reynolds [...]

R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Holdings Inc. is buying Brown & Williamson Tobacco Corp., the U.S. cigarette business of British American Tobacco plc., for $2.6 billion in stock, the companies said yesterday. [...]

GREENSBORO - A federal judge gave final approval yesterday to a settlement under which three cigarette-makers and several tobacco-leaf buyers have agreed to pay $200 million to tobacco growers and [...]

A community task force recently formed to find ways to lessen the effect of layoffs in Forsyth County is lobbying state and education officials to help it meet the immediate [...]

ADKINS BETHANIA - Mr. Oscar Odell Adkins, 75, died Tuesday, Aug. 19, 2003. He was born Nov. 3, 1927, in Stokes County to Arthur Thomas and Eva James Adkins. He [...]

RURALHALL -- A hand-held computer replaced the chant of an auctioneer yesterday at the opening of the area's flue-cured-tobacco auction season . Farmers and an auctioneer at the Old Belt [...]

Small companies that make so-called deep-discount cigarettes will probably pressure profit at R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Co. and other major tobacco companies for at least the next two years, a senior [...]

Thursday will mark the end of an era for Winston-Salem and Winston Cup racing when NASCAR announces a new sponsor for its marquee series. NASCAR said yesterday only that it [...]

R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Holdings Inc. had its long-term credit ratings downgraded yesterday by Moody's Investors Service to below-investment grade or 'junk' status. 'The downgrade reflects RJR's uncompetitive operating-cost structure; Moody's [...]

Richard Bogan has resigned as the chief financial officer of R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Holdings Inc. after less than a year in the position, the company said yesterday. Dianne Neal, 43, [...]

R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Co. is changing its contracts with retailers as part of its parent company's effort to rethink the way it does business. 'The changes that we're making don't [...]

WASHINGTON -- In a dramatic shift, the Bush administration has decided to support a sweeping global anti-tobacco treaty drafted by the World Health Organization. The treaty is expected to be [...]

ALLEN Mrs. Emma Kimball Allen, 93, of Winston-Salem died Friday, May 16, 2003, at the Fitzgerald Health Center at Arbor Acres Triad United Methodist Home. Mrs. Allen was born April [...]

R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Co. will switch from coal to natural gas and fuel oil next year to power its big cigarette-making plant in Tobaccoville because of new environmental regulations. 'We [...]

R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Holdings Inc. and other tobacco-company stocks closed lower yesterday after an Illinois judge ordered Philip Morris USA Inc. late Friday to pay $10.1 billion in damages for [...]

R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Holdings Inc. and its main subsidiary, R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Co., were served with subpoenas in January from a federal grand jury in New York asking for 'documents [...]

2002 was a tough year for big cigarette companies, and this year is shaping up to be just as rough. The companies, including R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Co., are trying to [...]

DOWNS PFAFFTOWN - Harry Brooks Downs Jr., 76, of Sherborne Drive passed away peacefully at home, surrounded by his family, early Saturday, Feb. 22, 2003. He was born May 11, [...]

R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Holdings Inc., Philip Morris Cos. and Japan Tobacco Inc. lost a round yesterday in their legal battle against European charges of money-laundering and tobacco smuggling. The European [...]

Even though R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Co. and other cigarette-makers are likely to match a temporary price cut announced recently by Philip Morris U.S.A., analysts say they don't expect the price [...]

When one company buys another, upheaval and change typically follow. Workers are laid off to cut costs. The new management starts to tinker with how business gets done. The name [...]

R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Co. of Winston-Salem and other U.S. cigarette-makers will face a new trial in a lawsuit brought by a former flight attendant who claims that she suffers breathing [...]

BARRINGER LEXINGTON - Carrie Matilda Nobles Barringer, 53, died Sunday at Lexington Memorial Hospital. A graveside service will be 11 a.m. Wednesday at Galilee Missionary Baptist Church Cemetery. Piedmont Funeral [...]

BALL Mrs. Ella Mae Owen Ball, of Winston-Salem, passed away Wednesday, Dec. 4, 2002, at Forsyth Medical Center. She was born Feb. 2, 1914, in Forsyth County to Thomas David [...]

ANTHONY Mr. Clarence C. Anthony Jr., 73, passed away Wednesday, Dec. 4, 2002, at the Kate B. Reynolds Hospice Home. He was born Nov. 12, 1929, in Forsyth County to [...]

'We dropped the ball three or four years ago. But I was unaware three or four years ago that we had any situation at schools other than wannabes.' That's District [...]

WASHINGTON - Star Scientific Inc., a Chester, Va., company that claims to make less-toxic tobacco products, has filed a second patent- infringement lawsuit against R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Co. of Winston-Salem. [...]