Meteorologist Garett Argianas delivers the evening weather forecast for Friday, May 31, 2024.

Following months of searching — and debate over the search itself — the Springfield, Massachusetts school committee has picked a new superintendent to lead the district.

Margot Leverett, one of the greatest living exponents of klezmer clarinet, will be joined by her trio for a free concert, open to the public, at the Chatham Synagogue in Chatham, N.Y., tonight at 7:45pm. A founding member of the Grammy Award-winning modern klezmer group the Klezmatics, a cofounder of the all-women klezmer supergroup Mikveh, and the leader of Margot Leverett and the Klezmer Mountain Boys, Leverett has been performing klezmer – the festive music based in the sounds of Eastern-European Jewish wedding bands of the 19th century — for more than 40 years. (Fri, May 31)

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May’s CDPHP Workforce Team Challenge race raised more than $40,000 for two local charities aimed at supporting students.

Consumer spending rose only slightly in April, as shoppers pushed back against rising prices.

What does the prospect of Mexico's first woman president and feminism in the country mean for Elena Poniatowska?

Once the federal money expires, one Tulsa organization estimates its after-school program offerings will shrink from 450 to just 75. That's unless they can find outside funding.

Janine and Gregory. Jim and Pam. Sydney and Carmy? Critic Aisha Harris, a self-described will-they-won't-they grinch, explores our obsession with simmering sexual tension ... even when there is none.

The Boeing Starliner launch was halted with just minutes to spare. The mission to the International Space Station was to carry two NASA astronauts. Starliner has already faced years of delays.

Chants calling for “intifada” have been a prominent feature of pro-Palestinian student protests. It’s a charged word whose use is perceived differently by people with opposing views of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.