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Zak Failla

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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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New Alert Issued For Missing Pregnant Teen Runaway Possibly Staying In RV With Maryland Tags New Alert Issued For Missing Pregnant Teen Runaway Possibly Staying In RV With Maryland Tags
New Alert Issued For Missing Pregnant Teen Runaway Possibly Staying In RV With Maryland Tags A new alert has been issued for a teenage runaway reported missing out of Virginia who could potentially be staying in an RV with a Maryland registration. Kiley Elizabeth O-Neil Carter, 15, ran away from her Frederick County, Virginia home at approximately 11:30 a.m. on Wednesday, June 29, according to the sheriff’s office, while officials in Frederick County, Maryland, advised that she could be staying in a vehicle with Maryland tags. She was last seen near the Apple Pie Meadows neighborhood of Apple Pie Ridge Road in Virginia. According to The AWARE Foundation, Carter “is possibly bein…

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Police & Fire
Woman Busted With Heroin While Asking Maryland Sheriff's Deputy To Help Find Her Car Woman Busted With Heroin While Asking Maryland Sheriff's Deputy To Help Find Her Car
Woman Busted With Heroin While Asking Maryland Sheriff's Deputy To Help Find Her Car Dude, where’s her car? A dazed and confused woman caught nodding asleep at a Slurpee machine inside a Maryland 7-Eleven is facing charges after being busted with alleged heroin, authorities announced on Thursday, July 7. Members of the Calvert County Sheriff's Office responded to the 7-Eleven location on West Chesapeake Beach Road in Dunkirk on Saturday, July 2, for a welfare check of a woman who was falling asleep inside the store with a young child, officials said. Upon arrival, deputies made contact with Marlboro resident Jessica Marie Vaughan, 35, who “appeared confused and disoriente…

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Extra Crispy: Chicken Truck Goes Up In Flames On Maryland Highway Extra Crispy: Chicken Truck Goes Up In Flames On Maryland Highway
Extra Crispy: Chicken Truck Goes Up In Flames On Maryland Highway A tractor-trailer driver is calling fowl after his poultry truck went up in flames while traveling on a busy Maryland highway on National Chicken Day. In Wicomico County, first responders from multiple agencies responded to a reported vehicle fire in the eastbound lanes of Ocean Gateway near Porter Road in Hebron at approximately 1:45 p.m. on Wednesday, July 6, according to fire officials. Upon arrival, fire crews found a tractor-trailer chicken truck with the cab fully engulfed in flames, which were quickly extinguished, according to the Hebron Volunteer Fire Department. The chicken t…

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Lifestyle
Woman Wins $30K - Not $100 - From Gifted Maryland Lottery Scratch-Off Ticket Woman Wins $30K - Not $100 - From Gifted Maryland Lottery Scratch-Off Ticket
Woman Wins $30K - Not $100 - From Gifted Maryland Lottery Scratch-Off Ticket A Maryland woman turned a $3 scratch-off lottery ticket gifted by a friend into $30,000. In Harford County, an Aberdeen woman was gifted six scratch-off tickets from a friend who stopped to buy cigarettes and opted to decide a package of “Diamond Bingo” instant tickets from an area Wawa, including one lucky top-prize winner. Lottery officials said that among the six tickets was a $30,000 winner that was sold at Wawa on North Philadelphia Boulevard in Aberdeen, just weeks after the latest edition of the game went up for sale in June. It represents the first of seven $30,000 top prizes avail…

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Overturned SUV Shuts Busy Maryland Roadway Overturned SUV Shuts Busy Maryland Roadway
Overturned SUV Shuts Busy Maryland Roadway A busy Maryland roadway was closed in both directions late in the afternoon on Wednesday, July 6, when there was a reported multi-vehicle crash. First responders were dispatched to a stretch of Virginia Avenue near the I-70 bridge in Washington County, where there was a reported crash with at least one car that landed on its roof, officials said. The crash was reported near Halfway and Williamsport. On social media, a user responded on the Washington County MD Fire Calls page to advise that it was his wife who was involved in the crash, with her SUV being the vehicle to roll over. “My wi…

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Mass Workplace Shooter Indicted By Maryland Grand Jury Mass Workplace Shooter Indicted By Maryland Grand Jury
Mass Workplace Shooter Indicted By Maryland Grand Jury A grand jury in Maryland has indicted West Virginia resident Joe Louis Esquivel following the fatal mass shooting at Columbia Machine, Inc. in Washington County last month. Esquivel, 23, is facing a total of 34 charges, according to WBALTV, after he opened fire at his workplace, killing three and critically injuring others. The charges Esquivel faces include multiple murder, attempted murder, assault, and weapons offenses. Deputies responded to Columbia Machine Inc. on Bikle Road at approximately 2:30 p.m. on Thursday, June 9 in Smithsburg, where they found four victims, three of whom were…

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Police & Fire
Three Times In Three Weeks: Maryland Offender Can't Stop Violating Protection Order Three Times In Three Weeks: Maryland Offender Can't Stop Violating Protection Order
Three Times In Three Weeks: Maryland Offender Can't Stop Violating Protection Order Three was the magic number for a repeat offender in Maryland who violated a court-issued order of protection three times in three weeks, authorities said. Lexington Park's Jonathan Jacob Resnick, 48, was back in police custody on Friday, July 1 after allegedly violating the protective order issued on behalf of his victim, the St. Mary's County Sheriff's Office announced. It is alleged that St. Mary's County sheriff’s deputies located Resnick on the 21900 block of Rosewood Terrace in Lexington Park, where there was a reported violation of the order. Resnick was arrested on the same street t…

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Former Sheriff's Deputy In Maryland Sentenced For Crashing While Drunk In Police Car Former Sheriff's Deputy In Maryland Sentenced For Crashing While Drunk In Police Car
Former Sheriff's Deputy In Maryland Sentenced For Crashing While Drunk In Police Car A former Calvert County sheriff's deputy has been sentenced after admitting to drinking, driving, and crashing his patrol vehicle earlier this year, the state attorney's office announced. Jermaine Parvell Mason, 40, of Prince Frederick, pleaded guilty last month to driving while impaired by alcohol as a subsequent offender following a crash in January that left the other driver with serious injuries. On Wednesday, July 6, Calvert County State's Attorney Robert Harvey announced that Mason was sentenced to one year, suspended down to 90 days incarceration, followed by three years of unsu…

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BOOM: Maryland Summer School Student Sets Off Fireworks In Building BOOM: Maryland Summer School Student Sets Off Fireworks In Building
Boom: Maryland Summer School Student Sets Off Fireworks In Building Summer school was off with a bang in Maryland, literally. One student put on a belated Fourth of July show, setting off fireworks in the main lobby of an area high school, according to school officials. The Charles County Board of Education said that a student at Westlake High School attending the summer school program allegedly lit fireworks in the main lobby of the building early on Wednesday, July 6. As a precaution, officials said that students and staff were temporarily evacuated from the high school, though fire response was not required inside the building. No injuries were repor…

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Suspect At Large After Strong-Armed Robbery At Maryland Dollar Store: Sheriff Suspect At Large After Strong-Armed Robbery At Maryland Dollar Store: Sheriff
Suspect At Large After Strong-Armed Robbery At Maryland Dollar Store: Sheriff Law enforcement agencies in Maryland are seeking the public's assistance in identifying and locating an armed robber who allegedly targeted a dollar store on the Fourth of July. The St. Mary’s County Sheriff's Office released a surveillance photo of a suspect who is wanted in connection to a strong-armed robbery that happened at the Dollar General store on Great Mills Road in Lexington Park. At approximately 9:15 p.m. on Monday, July 4, a spokesperson from the St. Mary’s County Sheriff's Office said that the suspect entered the store and approached a cashier. He then allegedly pushed the e…

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