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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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Politics
COVID-19: Negative Comments About Maskless Pic Before Positive Test Gave Her Anxiety, AOC Says COVID-19: Negative Comments About Maskless Pic Before Positive Test Gave Her Anxiety, AOC Says
Covid-19: Negative Comments About Maskless Pic Before Positive Test Gave Her Anxiety, AOC Says New York Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is back on Twitter just days after she proclaimed that she was “taking a break” from the social media platform due to “anxiety” following her bout with COVID-19. On Monday, Jan. 31, the controversial, 32-year-old congresswoman who grew up in Northern Westchester County and who has been a prominent figure on social media since taking office, announced a temporary moratorium, citing anxieties that were caused by negative comments on the platform. The announcement came after an Instagram user made note that Ocasio-Cortez had not issued a tweet o…

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Police & Fire
Alert Issued For Wanted Nassau County Homicide Suspect Alert Issued For Wanted Nassau County Homicide Suspect
Alert Issued For Wanted Nassau County Homicide Suspect Police investigators are seeking the public’s assistance as they investigate a fatal Long Island shooting. An alert was issued by the Nassau County Police Department’s Homicide Squad as they continue to investigate the fatal shooting of Santos Valeriano Argueta, who was found gunned down in Hempstead last month. According to police, shortly before 11 p.m. on Sunday, Jan. 30, Argueta (pictured above) was found shot to death in the area of Peninsula Boulevard and Sewell Street in Hempstead. No other information has been released by police during the initial investigation. In response, Nassau…

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News
COVID-19: Hospitalizations Under 1,000 In CT; Latest Breakdown Of Cases, Deaths By County COVID-19: Hospitalizations Under 1,000 In CT; Latest Breakdown Of Cases, Deaths By County
Covid-19: Hospitalizations Under 1,000 In CT; Latest Breakdown Of Cases, Deaths By County The number of COVID-19 patients being treated in Connecticut hospitals is under 1,000 for the first time in 2022 as the state continues its recovery from the January surge of new infections. In the latest update from Gov. Ned Lamont, there were 14,293 COVID-19 tests administered in Connecticut on Monday, Jan. 31, resulting in 1,240 new cases for a daily positive infection rate of 8.68 percent, up slightly. The previous day, the infection rate was at 7.33 percent, the lowest in January 2022. Fifty-six more COVID-19 patients were discharged from Connecticut hospitals, bringing the number bei…

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News
COVID-19: Pfizer Asks FDA For Emergency Use Authorization Of Vaccine For Children Under 5 COVID-19: Pfizer Asks FDA For Emergency Use Authorization Of Vaccine For Children Under 5
Covid-19: Pfizer Asks FDA For Emergency Use Authorization Of Vaccine For Children Under 5 New York-based Pfizer and its European partner BioNTech has requested that the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) expand the use of its COVID-19 vaccine to include children between the ages of 6 months and 5 years old, officials announced. On Tuesday, Feb. 1, citing a host of clinical trials, the pharmaceutical company announced it is seeking emergency use authorization (EUA) to admit the vaccine to a wider range of children. Currently, the vaccine is only approved for children 5 years old and older. Pfizer said that it plans to complete its EUA submission “in the coming days,” and has alre…

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News
COVID-19: Springfield Woman Admits To Fraud Related To Pandemic COVID-19: Springfield Woman Admits To Fraud Related To Pandemic
Covid-19: Springfield Woman Admits To Fraud Related To Pandemic A Western Massachusetts woman admitted to a $1.2 million unemployment fraud scheme that she ran during the COVID-19 pandemic to illegally obtain unemployment benefits. Audri Ford-Victory, age 61, of Springfield, pleaded guilty in US District Court to one count of wire fraud in connection to her involvement in a scheme with a co-conspirator to profit from the pandemic. Prosecutors said that Ford-Victory and her co-conspirator submitted more than 100 fraudulent Pandemic Unemployment Assistance (PUA) claims resulting in more than $1.2 million in payments. Approximately half of the PUA claims…

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News
Hudson Valley Woman Indicted For Thanksgiving Stabbing Death Of Brother Hudson Valley Woman Indicted For Thanksgiving Stabbing Death Of Brother
Hudson Valley Woman Indicted For Thanksgiving Stabbing Death Of Brother A woman from the Hudson Valley is facing murder charges for allegedly fatally stabbing her brother during an argument at her parent’s Long Island home on Thanksgiving, the District Attorney announced. Dutchess County resident Veronica Hardwick, age 51, of Poughkeepsie, has been arraigned on multiple charges for allegedly stabbing her brother Richard Reshard in Nassau County at their parent’s Hempstead home. Specifically, Hardwick was charged with: Second-degree murder; Manslaughter; Criminal possession of a weapon. Nassau County District Attorney Anne Donnelly said that on Nov. 25, 2021,…

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Lifestyle
COVID-19: Mask Mandate In NY To Stay In Place For Next Month Until Appeal Decision COVID-19: Mask Mandate In NY To Stay In Place For Next Month Until Appeal Decision
Covid-19: Mask Mandate In NY To Stay In Place For Next Month Until Appeal Decision The mask mandate in New York could remain in effect for several more weeks as the courts determine its legality. An appellate panel of judges ruled this week reaffirming a lower court judge who recently granted a stay in the state’s lawsuit over its COVID-19 indoor mask mandate, which has become a point of contention for some New Yorkers. Earlier story - COVID-19: Mask Mandate Back In Effect In NY After Appeals Court Judge's Ruling The stay will extend until the appeal is decided, and the panel said the state has until Wednesday, March 2 to file its appeal, though New York Gov. Kathy Hochu…

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Business
Here's Where McDonald's Has Pulled Large Fries From Menu Due To Shortage Here's Where McDonald's Has Pulled Large Fries From Menu Due To Shortage
Here's Where McDonald's Has Pulled Large Fries From Menu Due To Shortage Some McDonald’s locations won’t be asking customers if “you’d like some fries with that.” A growing global potato shortage has started to slowly spread, forcing some chains to pull large fries from their menu to help ration the popular potato product. Some restaurants “are facing a fry-tening supply crunch on French Fries,” which limits some chains’ ability to supply large fries, something the company dubbed a “sacra-fries.” Rationing first began in Japan in December, where the company could only supply small fries to customers, a move that extended through January due to “delays in the …

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Police & Fire
Lindenhurst Man Charged With Leaving Dog In Sub-Freezing Temps, SPCA Says Lindenhurst Man Charged With Leaving Dog In Sub-Freezing Temps, SPCA Says
Lindenhurst Man Charged With Leaving Dog In Sub-Freezing Temps, SPCA Says A wanted man on Long Island is facing charges for allegedly leaving his dog outside his home in sub-freezing temperatures, the SPCA announced. Suffolk County SPCA and police officers responded to a home on 44th Street in Lindenhurst, where there was a report of a resident leaving his dog outside in a cold, unheated car with the engine off. Roy Gross, Chief of the Suffolk SPCA said that the homeowner, Byron Perez, age 34, also left the dog with no ready access to food, water, or any indoor heated facility while the temperatures were between 14 and 18 degrees as it was left inside the car. …

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Police & Fire
CT Woman Accused Of Putting Mothball Inside Candy To Stop Neighbor's Dog From Barking CT Woman Accused Of Putting Mothball Inside Candy To Stop Neighbor's Dog From Barking
CT Woman Accused Of Putting Mothball Inside Candy To Stop Neighbor's Dog From Barking A house sitter in Connecticut has turned herself in after allegedly attempting to silence a neighbor's dog by hiding a potentially toxic mothball in a piece of candy she placed in the backyard, police said. In Hartford County, officers from the Southington Police Department were called to a Whitlock Avenue home on Dec. 23, 2021, where there was a report of a suspicious woman and a barking dog. On Monday, Jan. 31, police said the caller reported that when he went to check on his dog, he spotted a blonde woman dressed in all black walking along his fence line on the neighbor’s side of the pro…

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