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None of the tickets sold for Friday's $56 million drawing matched all five lotto numbers and the Big Money Ball. The next drawing will be Tuesday.

Waste Management Inc., which stuck with Arthur Andersen LLP as its auditor despite two separate accounting lapses, has fired the accounting firm.

In another sign of the airline industry's modest recovery, United Airlines said Friday it is recalling another 1,300 employees who were laid off last fall and hiring an additional 900 in key markets.

The independent Postal Rate Commission on Friday gave its approval to an unprecedented agreement on postage prices.

Massachusetts' unemployment rate in February held steady for the fourth month in a row at 4.4 percent, the state Division of Employment and Training said on Friday.

Wall Street Week host Louis Rukeyser said Thursday that he's leaving the show, becoming a victim of a maxim he is fond of reciting: The only constant is change.

The nine ranch hands grabbed their duffel bags and headed to the Rio Grande as night fell. But unlike millions of Mexicans who sneak across the border, these men didn't need the cloak of darkness or a smuggler to help them. They carried U.S. work visa

A reduction in worldwide inventory and heavier promotion of lower-priced athletic shoes has helped Nike Inc. boost its third-quarter profits by 31 percent.

AirTran Airways said Thursday it will pull out of the city's airport even though its low-cost fares have been popular with leisure travelers.

BellSouth Corporation has won a key approval for its request to offer long-distance service in Georgia and Louisiana.