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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: Cases In Kids At All-Time High; Here's Percentage Of New US Infections In Children With students returning to class for the new school year, the number of children coming down with COVID-19 is on the rise as overall cases continue to climb due to the Delta variant. In the latest data released by the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP), children now represent 26.8 percent of new weekly COVID-19 cases nationwide as health officials encourage all eligible parties to get vaccinated against the virus to help curtail the spread of the virus. According to the latest report, more than 250,000 new COVID-19 cases were reported among children in the past week out of nearly 940,000 …

by Zak Failla

09/09/2021

Police & Fire

Long Island Expressway Crash Leaves One Critically Injured An overnight crash on the Long Island Expressway left one person in critical condition, police said. It happened around 2:45 a.m. Thursday, Sept. 9 in North Hills, near exit 36 westbound. There were three occupants in a red 2020 Hyundai Elantra that overturned, Nassau County Police said. Two of whom were transported by separate vehicles to a nearby hospital. According to police, on Thursday morning, one of the two hospitalized passengers was listed in critical condition. It is unclear what caused the crash. No IDs have been released for the three occupants of the Hyundai as…

by Zak Failla

09/09/2021

News

Covid-19: 11 Massachusetts Counties Now At High Risk For Spread; Here's Latest Info All but one county in Massachusetts is now being designated as areas of “high transmission” for the spread of COVID-19 by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). As variants of the virus surge throughout the country, the CDC is now monitoring 11 Massachusetts counties, with Franklin County the only to be dubbed a “substantial risk” to spread COVID-19. (See the image above.) In the past seven days, according to the CDC, new COVID-19 cases were reported, by county, in: Middlesex: 1,844 (1.62 percent); Worcester: 1,637 (3.64 percent); Essex: 1,234 (3.40 percent); Hampden: 1,22…

by Zak Failla

09/09/2021

Schools

Sewage Contamination Leads To Closure Of High School In Westchester Students at a Westchester high school will be displaced for at least a month after suffering water damage and contamination from sewer water that backed up into the building during the recent round of storms. It could take until November for the New Rochelle High School to reopen after substantial damage was found following Tropical Depression Ida, which wreaked havoc on the city and region last week. Officials said during a remote town hall meeting on Wednesday, Sept. 8 that the plan moving forward is to seal off the areas hit hardest by the storm - the library, athletic, and pool areas - …

by Zak Failla

09/09/2021

News

Man Busted Impersonating Homeland Security Agent During Stop On Long Island Expressway A man went through great lengths to impersonate a US Department of Homeland Security agent during a stop on the Long Island Expressway, police announced. At approximately 12:30 p.m. on Tuesday, Sept. 7, a Suffolk County Police officer was traveling on the LIE when he spotted a 2019 Audi A8 driving with emergency blue and red lights activated in the windshield driving in the HOV lane, prompting a traffic stop. Police said that the driver of the Audi, Elmhurst resident Fernando Garnecho attempted to portray himself to the officer as an on-duty United States Department of Homeland Security age…

by Zak Failla

09/09/2021

Lifestyle

Here's Brand-New Rundown Of CT Lottery Winners Some Connecticut residents are feeling lucky after cashing in thousands of dollars worth of winning CT Lottery tickets. In the past week, more than a dozen Connecticut residents have cashed in tickets worth more than $10,000, which are “just a small number of the thousands who claim prizes,” officials noted. According to CT Lottery, “when a winning scratch ticket is validated through a Lottery Retailer's terminal, the remaining number of unclaimed prizes for that prize level is automatically updated reflecting one less prize. Until the individual or group presents their winning ticket for c…

by Zak Failla

09/09/2021

News

Covid-19: Long Island Sees New Infection-Rate Increase; Latest Breakdown By Community The positive COVID-19 infection rate on Long Island was back on the rise after seeing a slight reprieve over the holiday weekend as the country continues to combat the spread of mutations of the virus. After seeing the average seven-day infection rate settle at 4.26 percent for several days, it rose on Tuesday, Sept. 7 to 4.40 percent of those tested in the region, according to the New York State Department of Health. Statewide, the infection rate is also climbing, from 3.27 percent to 3.34 percent on Sept. 7. In Suffolk, 437 new COVID-19 infections were confirmed in the latest updat…

by Zak Failla

09/09/2021

News

Covid-19: Hudson Valley Sees New Infection-Rate Increase; Latest Breakdown By County The positive COVID-19 infection rate in the Hudson Valley was back on the rise after seeing a slight reprieve over the holiday weekend as the country continues to combat the spread of mutations of the virus. After seeing the average seven-day infection rate rise to 3.62 percent, it rose on Tuesday, Sept. 7 to 3.74 percent of those tested in the region, according to the New York State Department of Health. Statewide, the infection rate is also climbing, from 3.27 percent to 3.34 percent on Sept. 7. A total of 31 new virus-related deaths were reported in New York, including single fatalitie…

by Zak Failla

09/09/2021

News

Covid-19: CT Infection Rate Climbs Over 3.5 Percent; New Breakdown By County, Community The positive COVID-19 infection rate in Connecticut is back on the rise as the number of unvaccinated residents continues to clog up the state's hospitals. In his latest COVID-19 update, Connecticut Gov. Ned Lamont said that there were 26,603 COVID-19 tests administered on Tuesday, Sept. 7, resulting in 935 laboratory-confirmed cases of the virus. The 3.51 percent daily positivity rate is up from 2.60 percent over the weekend. According to the Department of Health, there are now 364 COVID-19 patients being treated in Connecticut hospitals, with 274 (75.3 percent) being unvaccinated.&…

by Zak Failla

09/09/2021

News

Former Fugitive LI Dentist Convicted Of Medical Fraud A former dentist on Long Island has been convicted of submitting false Medicaid claims and fleeing the country after his dental license was revoked, authorities announced. Long Island native Dawer Nadi, age 63, was sentenced to a term of between 4 and ⅓ to 10 years in prison following his conviction in Suffolk County Supreme Court to multiple charges. Specifically, Nadi was convicted by a jury of: Third-degree grand larceny; Unauthorized practice of a profession; Eight counts of offering a false instrument for filing. Each of the charges was a felony. Nadi was also ordered to pay $27,768.…

by Zak Failla

09/08/2021

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