Matthew Chayes

3 days ago | newsday.com | Matthew Chayes

Clarence O. Smith, who as one of the founders of Essence magazine helped advertisers realize the potential of the long-ignored market of Black women consumers, has died. He was 92. The death, which was on April 21, according to a post on Essence.com, was confirmed on Saturday by Smith’s niece, Kimberly Fonville Boyd. Smith, of Yonkers, wasn’t Essence’s only founder. There were also three others: Edward Lewis, Cecil Hollingsworth and Jonathan Blount.

5 days ago | newsday.com | Matthew Chayes

A driver slid on wet pavement and crashed Friday morning into the front of a Farmingville strip mall’s vitamin and nutritional supplement store, according to the Suffolk County Police Department. The driver, a 68-year-old woman from Medford operating a 2021 Mazda, sustained minor injuries in the 9:19 a.m. crash and was brought to Stony Brook University Hospital, the police press office wrote in an email. The store, a GNC at 2322 North Ocean Ave., was damaged. There were no other injuries.

5 days ago | newsday.com | Matthew Chayes

A flood watch is in effect for parts of Long Island through late Friday night as the National Weather Service warns of potential flooding of rivers, streams, creeks and other flood-prone areas — and there could be flash flooding. At risk, the weather services says, are northern and southern Suffolk and Nassau counties. “Flooding may occur in poor drainage and urban areas,” the service said in an alert, which added: “You should monitor later forecasts and be alert for possible Flood Warnings.

1 week ago | newsday.com | Matthew Chayes

Witnesses heard loud "bangs" last month from the doomed sightseeing helicopter just before it broke apart above the Hudson River and crashed, killing a family of five and the pilot, according to a preliminary report from the National Transportation Safety Board. The report, released Wednesday, also includes new images captured by a surveillance camera of the helicopter in the moments before hit the river.

1 week ago | newsday.com | Matthew Chayes

The Trump administration has rehired the majority of the 16 federal workers in one office that helps those sickened by 9/11 toxins and who were abruptly fired last week, according to a source close to U.S. Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY). But the notice informing the workers of the reversal does not say when work would resume or whether employees who were terminated in the first wave of layoffs, in April, would also be rehired, according to a copy of the letter obtained by Newsday.