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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.

Zak Failla's Contributions

News

Covid-19: Here's When Americans Can Order Free At-Home Tests With the Omicron COVID-19 variant raging, Americans will soon have access to free at-home test kits that will be made available through a federal website. Beginning on Wednesday, Jan. 19, the White House announced that it will be distributing one billion tests that it plans to buy this year that will be provided to Americans in need for free. According to the White House, tests will take approximately seven to 12 days to ship, and can be requested at COVIDTests.gov beginning on Jan. 19. Officials said that "tens of millions” of tests are already on hand, and a half billion will be availabl…

by Zak Failla

01/14/2022

Business

Netflix Increases Subscription Price Netflix subscribers can soon expect to see a different kind of Stranger Things on their upcoming bills as the company announced a price hike for new subscriptions that will soon impact existing members. In the US, the company said that Netflix’s basic plan, which allows for one stream on one screen at a time and does not have HD streaming, will now be charged $9.99 a month, up from $8.99. Standard plans — which allow for users to stream on two screens at the same time — now cost $15.49 per month, an increase from $13.99, while premium plans have been pushed up to $19.99 a month. Those ra…

by Zak Failla

01/14/2022

Police & Fire

Suspects At Large After Robbing Long Island Liquor Store, Assaulting Employee Two suspects are at large after allegedly robbing a Long Island liquor store and assaulting an employee who attempted to intervene, police said. It is alleged that two men entered Wheatley Hills Discount Liquors on Post Road in Westbury at approximately 6:50 p.m. on Thursday, Jan. 13, and began taking several bottles of wine and liquor and pocketing them, prompting suspicion from the staff. Nassau County Police said that when a store employee approached the two men and confronted them, one of the two took a bottle of wine out of his jacket and struck the employee, causing a laceration to hi…

by Zak Failla

01/14/2022

News

Hudson Valley Man Among 11 Charged With Seditious Conspiracy For Role In Capitol Insurrection A business owner from the Hudson Valley already awaiting trial for his role in the Jan. 6 insurrection at the Capitol Building in Washington, DC is among those charged with seditious conspiracy charges after being named in a federal indictment along with the leader of the Oath Keepers militia. Roberto Minuta, age 37, who owns an Orange County tattoo shop in Newburgh, was among the members of the right-wing group who were indicted by a federal grand jury in Washington, D.C. this week along with Oath Keepers founder and leader Stewart Rhodes. On Jan. 6, 2021, Minuta was caught on camera with …

by Zak Failla

01/14/2022

Schools

NY Launches Plan To Address School Bus Driver Shortage New York has a plan to address the growing shortage of school bus and truck drivers that has plagued the state of late. Under the plan presented by New York Gov. Kathy Hochul, the state would expand the availability of road tests for Commercial Driver License (CDL) applicants while permitting qualified third parties to offer the road tests, which would reduce the time it takes to get CDL drivers on the road. Much of the shortage concerns have been attributed to the COVID-19 pandemic. “As we continue to fight this pandemic, we remain committed to expanding opportunities for New Yorkers, sup…

by Zak Failla

01/14/2022

Schools

Covid-19: New State Guidance Issued For After-School Activities Some students, teachers, and staff members will be restricted from participating in after-school activities in New York after the Department of Health revised its COVID-19 guidance. The Department of Health said that any students 12 and older who are eligible for the COVID-19 booster shot, but have not received it, will be barred from participating in sports, extracurriculars, and other after-school activities if they are exposed to the virus. Fully vaccinated students, teachers, and school staffers who are exposed will still be permitted to continue attending classes, regardless of the sta…

by Zak Failla

01/14/2022

Police & Fire

Duo Nabbed For Attempting To Rob Suffolk County Bank, Police Say A serial bank robber was among two who were busted attempting to rob a Long Island branch, police announced. According to the Suffolk County Police Department, Mastic resident Dominic Scotto, age 31, entered Chase Bank on Grand Boulevard in Deer Park at approximately 4:50 p.m. on Thursday, Jan. 13, handing a teller a note demanding cash. When the teller declined, police said that Scotto left the bank empty-handed, and he and his driver, West Islip resident Adam Postiglione, age 32, were arrested outside the bank after authorities were notified. Both were taken into custody without incident…

by Zak Failla

01/14/2022

Police & Fire

Homeowner Detains Teen Who Broke Into Area Home With A Knife, Police Say A fast-acting homeowner in the Hudson Valley jumped into action to stop a juvenile who broke into his home with a weapon in the middle of the night, state police announced. New York State Police troopers in Dutchess County responded to a Lime Kiln Road home in the town of Dover Plains shortly after 4 a.m. on Friday, Jan. 7, where there was a reported burglary in progress. According to investigators, upon arrival, troopers found a 17-year-old teen who had broken into the home, but was ultimately detained by the homeowner until police arrived at the scene. The teen was armed with a knife at…

by Zak Failla

01/14/2022

News

Woman Sentenced For Attempted Murder Of Man She Married To Obtain Citizenship In Westchester A Jamaican woman who married a man from Westchester to illegally obtain US citizenship will spend years in prison after admitting to attempting to kill her 74-year-old husband, authorities announced. Olivia Raimo, age 30, who married a New Rochelle senior to gain citizenship, slit his wrist with a straight razor pleaded guilty to attempted murder, authorities said. In November 2021 Raimo pleaded guilty to second-degree attempted murder. On Thursday, Jan. 13, Westchester County District Attorney Mimi Rocah announced that Raimo has been sentenced to 15 years in state prison, followed by five…

by Zak Failla

01/14/2022

News

Covid-19: Positivity Rate Down Again In CT, 161 New Deaths Reported; Latest Breakdown Of Cases One hundred and sixty-one new COVID-19 deaths were reported in the past week in Connecticut, which has seen the number of new virus-related hospitalizations dip for the first time in more than a week. In the latest update from the State Department of Public Health on Thursday, Jan. 13, more than 47,000 COVID-19 tests were administered in Connecticut, resulting in 9,604 laboratory-confirmed cases of the virus for a 20.27 percent daily positivity rate. After plateauing near 25 percent for several days, the daily positivity rate has dipped for two straight days. Twenty-two COVID-19 pati…

by Zak Failla

01/14/2022

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