Dave Leitao, a former head men’s basketball coach at three NCAA Division I schools, is expected to be named the next head coach of the Maine Red Claws on Thursday.

Hacking into an ex-girlfriend’€™s Facebook account to read private conversations. Sending threatening text messages that end with, “€œOr else.”€™ Flirting with an ex-boyfriend’€™s buddies on Twitter.

Scarborough right-hander Les Williams isn’€™t the only Blue Jays June draft under contract trying to make it all the way back to the city where he used to live.

While policymakers focus on encouraging small companies to hire more workers and jump-start the economy, business owners would do well to look at their existing workforce before taking on new employees.

Economic news these days is pretty bleak: job growth is anemic, retail sales are stagnating, and consumer confidence is plummeting. But the luxury goods market is another story. Today, the French company Hermes raised its 2011 revenue forecast by 12 to 14 percent on growing demand in the U.S. and China for its silk scarves […]

As Bay State temperatures have risen, year-over-year home sales have dropped, marking a fifth straight month of declines with 18 percent fewer deals in June, according to figures compiled for the Herald.

Massachusetts has lagged behind the rest of the country in job creation since the 2001 recession. While the rest of the country grew, we shrank.

Arlington author Gary Goshgarian has never had a near-death experience, but he has always been fascinated with the phenomenon as it relates to two basic mysteries of human existence: where we came from and where we go.

If you’re an athlete, your skills, ambition and work ethic are supposed to determine your career path, rather than nepotism or insider connections. Which means you can come from anywhere and succeed. Clint Dempsey grew up in a trailer park in South Texas, playing soccer with migrant kids from across the Mexican border. LeBron James […]

The job market is lousy; the housing market is stuck in neutral; the European debt crisis is far from over; congressional leaders still haven’t come to a deal about the debt ceiling; and crude oil is once again hovering at $100 per barrel. Yet investors seem to be ignoring the grim news, as US stocks […]

Since last year the Obama administration has been pushing small businesses to venture into global markets, part of an ambitious goal to double U.S. exports by 2014. For small businesses struggling to find new customers domestically, markets outside the United States may be a better bet now, with a weak dollar making exports a good […]

While media attention on Somalia seldom strays from terrorism, piracy, and a 20-year-old civil war, those problems are among the least pressing for young Somali-Americans, according to participants in a weekend conference in Boston.