The study conducted by Vladas Griskevicius, an associate professor of marketing and psychology, suggests that women purchase expensive luxury items such as designer shoes and handbags to boost self-esteem, signal status and prevent other women …

Just mind your business. “We found that a woman who is wearing luxury items and designer brands is perceived to have a more devoted partner and as a result other women are less likely to flirt with him,” says study co-author Yajin Wang in a press release.

Bell Bay plant manager Ray Mostogl has described market conditions as "extremely challenging", saying recent job cuts were part of an efficiency drive to make the smelter competitive. But workplace efficiencies and cheap power may not be enough to save …

INDIAN RIVER COUNTY — Less than two weeks after treasure hunters found more than $200,000 in gold coins in the waters near Wabasso, the same team struck gold again Friday north of Indian River Shores. This time it was diver Chas Francoviglia who …

Things had been rather easy for the U.S. men's national team during this 2013 CONCACAF Gold Cup. The Americans had swished through the tournament, winning all their games fairly easily, mostly playing good soccer. Opponents had crumbled. Goals had …

Barros took and passed the civil service test the following April and started at the police academy in September 1998 after being appointed to the Wellesley Police Department the month before. Were it not for the fact that he already lived in town …

New York, July 25, 2013 — Moody's Investors Service has affirmed the Aa1 rating on the Town of Southampton's (NY) $143.6 million in outstanding general obligation debt. All of the town's debt is secured by its general obligation pledge as limited by …

We're evolving into a personal-service culture.” Or devolving, as the case may be. Personal trainers are a luxury that illustrates how different the lives of affluent Americans and the lives of the less fortunate can be. But people well outside the 1 …

The sport's stars – Jimmie Johnson, Dale Earnhardt Jr., Carl Edwards, Jeff Gordon, Tony Stewart, Danica Patrick and Busch and a few others – are rich and polished and probably at least faintly familiar to non-race fans. They do not so much have …