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Zak Failla

Assistant Managing Editor

zfailla@dailyvoice.com

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Equal parts Lois Lane, J. Jonah Jameson and Vicki Vale, Zak! has traveled from coast-to-coast covering small and big town community news in both in print and online for nearly a decade since his graduation from the award-winning Roy H. Park School of Communications at Ithaca College in 2010.

Before settling into the Hudson Valley, Zak! previously spent time in the New York Daily News newsroom and worked for hyperlocal digital news outlets on Long Island. He wrote sports for The Ithacan and The Ithaca Journal before taking his talents to the Pacific Northwest, where he served as the sports editor at the Shoshone News-Press until heading back east to work with Daily Voice.

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Peeping Tom Wanted After Staring Through Woman's Window In Arlington, Police Say Peeping Tom Wanted After Staring Through Woman's Window In Arlington, Police Say
Peeping Tom Wanted After Staring Through Woman's Window In Arlington, Police Say Police in Arlington are on the lookout for a Peeping Tom who was caught creeping outside a woman's window over the weekend. An alert was issued by the Arlington Police Department on Monday advising that shortly before 11:30 p.m. on Thursday, Feb. 9, a woman reported to the agency that she had been targeted by a man peeking into her window. According to the department, a woman told officers that she was inside her home in the 1800 block of Key Boulevard when she spotted an unknown man looking through her window.  When she noticed him, police say that the man fled on foot in an unknown …

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Carjacker Used Stolen Uber To Terrorize Drivers During 35-Minute Crime Spree In DC: Feds Carjacker Used Stolen Uber To Terrorize Drivers During 35-Minute Crime Spree In DC: Feds
Carjacker Used Stolen Uber To Terrorize Drivers During 35-Minute Crime Spree In DC: Feds The 19-year-old District man who carjacked an Uber driver then used the stolen vehicle during a short-lived crime spree in DC has been arrested and charged, federal authorities announced. Dallas McKinney was arraigned on an indictment returned by a Superior Court grand jury charging him for a violent string of armed carjacking through several neighborhoods in Southeast DC that were reported over the course of approximately 35 minutes. On Sept. 29 last year, it is alleged that McKinney carjacked an Uber driver at gunpoint in the Eastern Market neighborhood, threatening both the Uber dri…

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Schools
Sheriff Responds To Incident Near Maryland High School (DEVELOPING) Sheriff Responds To Incident Near Maryland High School (DEVELOPING)
Sheriff Responds To Incident Near Maryland High School (Developing) There was an increased police presence around a St. Mary's County school as the sheriff's office investigated an incident. Shortly before 1 p.m. on Monday afternoon, deputies from the sheriff's office responded to an undisclosed incident in the area of Great Mills High School, though investigators stressed that there is no direct danger to students or threats to the building. There will be police activity in the area "for an extended period."  12:52 p.m., SMCSO is responding to an incident in the area of Great Mills High School. There is NO direct danger to students or threat to th…

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Daughter Charged With Murder After Father Dies From Stab Wound At Hospital In DC: MPD Daughter Charged With Murder After Father Dies From Stab Wound At Hospital In DC: MPD
Daughter Charged With Murder After Father Dies From Stab Wound At Hospital In DC: MPD A Northwest DC daughter has been charged with murder after her 70-year-old father died at an area hospital over the weekend, the Metropolitan Police Department announced. Brittany Gaylor, 32, has been charged with second-degree murder following the fatal stabbing of James Gaylor, who was pronounced dead on Sunday, Feb. 11, hours after he was attacked during a domestic dispute. Police say that at around 8:30 p.m. on Saturday night, officers from the department were flagged down at the intersection of North Capitol and P Street NW by a woman who reported stabbing a man inside a home in the 16…

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Sketch, New Details Released Of Suspect Wanted In Rachel Morin's Maryland Murder Sketch, New Details Released Of Suspect Wanted In Rachel Morin's Maryland Murder
Sketch, New Details Released Of Suspect Wanted In Rachel Morin's Maryland Murder New details and a fresh sketch of Rachel Morin's purported murderer in Maryland on the Ma & Pa Trail in Bel Air have been released by the Harford County Sheriff's Office. Six months after Morin's disappearance, investigators released the new sketch as they continue their efforts to track down the woman's killer, which includes the distribution of thousands of bi-lingual flyers in Maryland and California. "Over the last six months detectives have conducted more than 100 interviews and followed up on more than 1,000 tips," officials said. "Their investigation has led them to seven differe…

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Police & Fire
Fire May Have Been Caused By Homeless Seeking Refuge In Maryland Shed, Investigators Say Fire May Have Been Caused By Homeless Seeking Refuge In Maryland Shed, Investigators Say
Fire May Have Been Caused By Homeless Seeking Refuge In Maryland Shed, Investigators Say A shed fire behind a row of townhouses in Cecil County caused hundreds of thousands of dollars in damage and left 10 people in two homes displaced, officials say. In Elkton, crews were called to Mallard Court at around 12:45 a.m. on Sunday morning, to battle a blaze that broke out in the back of a property and spread to two neighboring homes. The fire caused an estimated $500,000 in damages, and left 10 people displaced who are being assisted by friends and the American Red Cross. It took firefighters approximately an hour to get the flames knocked down. Other nearby homes also sustained m…

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Sports
Nick Bosa's GF Is Model From Philadelphia Who Spent Time At The Jersey Shore Nick Bosa's GF Is Model From Philadelphia Who Spent Time At The Jersey Shore
Nick Bosa's GF Is Model From Philadelphia Who Spent Time At The Jersey Shore If you're watching Super Bowl LVIII for the Usher halftime show, the commercial's, and Taylor Swift, here's someone else to keep an eye out for. Meet Lauren Maenner, a model with Philadelphia roots who grew up vacationing at the Jersey Shore. Her boyfriend? 49ers defensive end, 26-year-old Nick Bosa (not Taylor Swift's boyfriend's teammate).  It's not immediately clear when the athlete and the model started dating, but Maenner, also 26, hinted at it when the 49ers played the Eagles last December. "Haha this is awkward," the longtime Eagles fan captioned the photo, in which she's wearing t…

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Man Who Photoshopped Naked Prepubescent Girls Into Photos Around His Virginia Home Sentenced Man Who Photoshopped Naked Prepubescent Girls Into Photos Around His Virginia Home Sentenced
Man Who Photoshopped Naked Prepubescent Girls Into Photos Around His Virginia Home Sentenced A Fairfax County man will spend years in prison for downloading millions of images and videos of child exploitation, including child sexual abuse material and computer-generated videos depicting the violent rape of children, federal authorities announced. James Andrew Whitney, 62, has been sentenced to seven years behind bars after admitting to downloading, and creating projects where he would photoshop prepubescent children into photos around his home and narrated sexual encounters between them and himself. According to prosecutors, Whitney sought out and downloaded video an…

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Bloods Gang Member Convicted For Shooting Woman At Virginia Home, Fleeing To Maryland Bloods Gang Member Convicted For Shooting Woman At Virginia Home, Fleeing To Maryland
Bloods Gang Member Convicted For Shooting Woman At Virginia Home, Fleeing To Maryland A purported gang member in Virginia has been convicted of a violent drive-by shooting in April last year in Prince William County, the Office of the Commonwealth's Attorney announced. Sean Hughes, Jr., a member of the Bloods, has been found guilty of shooting into a Triangle home in the 3500 block of Wharf Lane that sent a woman to the hospital with serious injuries.  According to prosecutors, on April 19, 2023, Hughes and an underaged co-conspirator opened fire at the Triangle home, striking a 58-year-old woman inside multiple times, while a detective and another bystander were nearly…

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Police & Fire
Murder Suspects Implicated In Armed Assault In Maryland: Police Murder Suspects Implicated In Armed Assault In Maryland: Police
Murder Suspects Implicated In Armed Assault In Maryland: Police Three people have been arrested after a man was found shot to death in Washington County late last month, authorities announced. Jenaro Torres, 26, Emens Rho, 39, and Stephanie Paulino, 35, are all facing charges following an investigation into the fatal shooting of 38-year-old Kevin Michael Shepherd early on Friday, Jan. 26 in Hagerstown. According to the Hagerstown Police Department, at approximately 9:50 a.m. on the day of the shooting, officers responded to the 1200 block of Marshall Street to investigate reports of shots in the area. Upon arrival, police say that they found Shepherd i…

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