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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 Latest Positive-Test Rate Trend On Long Island; New Case Rundown By Community More than 85 percent of New Yorkers over the age of 18 have received at least one dose of the COVID-19 vaccine as the positive infection rate of those tested on Long Island continues to hold steady. In the latest update from the state Department of Health, the seven-day average positive COVID-19 infection rate was back to 2.71 percent of those tested on Long Island on Sunday, Oct. 10, down slightly from 2.74 percent the day before. Statewide, the positive infection rate has been on the rise, up to 2.50 percent on Oct. 10, up .03 percent over the weekend. In Suffolk, 349 new COVID-19 infect…

by Zak Failla

10/12/2021

Politics

Biden Expected To Make Separate Stops In Connecticut This Week President Joe Biden is set to return to Connecticut for stops in the region to promote his Build Back Better Agenda to “highlight the importance of investing in child care to keep costs down for working families." The White House announced that Biden will return to the Nutmeg State on Friday, Oct. 15 to promote his agenda, first to Hartford, and then to Storrs in Tolland County, with a pitstop at the dedication of the Dodd Center for Human Rights at the University of Connecticut. Since its opening in 1995, the UConn center has been known as The Thomas J. Dodd Research Center. In August, the…

by Zak Failla

10/12/2021

News

Woman Reported Missing In Westchester An alert has been issued for a missing 26-year-old woman in Westchester who may be in need of medical attention. The Yonkers Police Department is seeking the public’s assistance in tracking down Charmaine Johnson, who investigators said suffers from suicidal ideations. Police said that Johnson was last seen in the area of 127 South Broadway in Yonkers wearing beige leggings, a cardigan sweater, and pink flip flops. Johnson was described as being 5-foot-2 weighing approximately 170 pounds. She was reported missing on Monday, Oct. 11. Anyone with information regarding Johnson's …

by Zak Failla

10/12/2021

Sports

Westchester Native Named NFL's Raiders' Interim Coach After Jon Gruden Email Scandal A veteran football coach from the Hudson Valley who graduated high school in Fairfield County is set to showcase his skills under the bright lights in Las Vegas. Yonkers native Rich Bisaccia, age 61, has been named interim head coach of the National Football League's Las Vegas Raiders following the overnight resignation of embattled former coach Jon Gruden, who stepped away following the emergence of racist and homophobic comments he made in emails a decade ago. Bisaccia, who graduated from New Fairfield High School, is in his 20th year as a coach in the NFL, but this will be his first appo…

by Zak Failla

10/12/2021

Police & Fire

Duo Nabbed For Broad-Daylight Robbery At Long Island Parking Lot Two men were arrested on Long Island after approaching a man in an area parking lot and threatening him with a gun before stealing his wallet out of his pocket, police said. The Nassau County Police Department received a 911 call from a 31-year-old man who was walking through a parking lot on Stewart Avenue shortly after 8:30 a.m. on Monday, Oct. 11, when he was approached by two men demanding money while threatening the use of a handgun. According to police, the investigation into the incident determined that one of the two suspects reached into the victim’s right pocket and took his walle…

by Zak Failla

10/12/2021

Politics

State Rep Defends Facebook Comment Comparing Lamont To Hitler Connecticut State Rep. Anne Dauphinais is doubling down after being called out for comparing Gov. Ned Lamont to Adolf Hitler. On Facebook last week, Dauphinais, a Republican who represents the 44th General Assembly District in the towns of Killingly and Plainfield in Windham County, compared the governor to the Fuhrer in response to an article posted about state employees who have not been compliant with COVID-19 vaccine and testing mandates. “King Lamont aka Hitler dictating what we must inject into our bodies to feed our family!” she posted under a story about compliance. State Repr…

by Zak Failla

10/11/2021

Police & Fire

Woman, Man Shot At Home In CT An investigation has been launched in Connecticut following reports of a shooting that took place at an area home that left two hospitalized. In New Haven County, local residents in West Haven have been advised to avoid the area of Third Avenue as detectives investigate a shooting that took place in the afternoon of Monday, Oct. 11. Police said that a man and woman were both shot and transported to area hospitals for treatment and evaluation. Their conditions were not immediately available. West Haven Police Sgt. Patrick Buturla said that the incident was active as of 2:45 p.m. on Monday a…

by Zak Failla

10/11/2021

News

Bail Denied For Massachusetts Father Accused Of Stabbing Man Who Was In Bed With His Daughter A Massachusetts father accused of breaking into a Worcester County home and stabbing a man in bed with his daughter will stay behind bars after being denied bail by a judge. Officers from the Dudley Police Department responded to a Dudley Southbridge Road residence at approximately 10:50 p.m. on Thursday, Oct. 7, during which he ran into two residents of the home. Police said that during the incident, Jeffrey Sprague, age 40, of Leicester in Worcester County, encountered a 19-year-old woman and 39-year-old man who suffered knife wounds to his face, neck, chest, and arms. According to polic…

by Zak Failla

10/11/2021

Sports

Man Shot, Killed Over Argument About College Football Game An argument over a college football game led to the fatal shooting of a man after he got in a dispute with another in the final minutes of a massive upset. With the then top-ranked Alabama squaring off against an unranked Texas A&M squad in the final minutes over the weekend, police said that two men got in an argument inside a Sixth Avenue home in Bessemer, Alabama. It is alleged that the two men became combative while arguing over whose team was better, prompting the homeowner to ask them to leave as they were fighting at approximately 11 p.m. on Saturday, Oct. 9. Once they were outs…

by Zak Failla

10/11/2021

News

Police Investigate Shooting At CT Home An investigation has been launched in Connecticut following reports of a shooting that took place at an area home. In New Haven County, local residents in West Haven have been advised to avoid the area of Third Avenue as detectives investigate a shooting that took place in the afternoon of Monday, Oct. 11. West Haven Police Sgt. Patrick Buturla said that the incident was active as of 2:45 p.m. on Monday afternoon, and there will be an increased police presence in the area of the shooting as they investigate. No other information was immediately released by investigators. Anyone with info…

by Zak Failla

10/11/2021

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