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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

Police & Fire

Officer Hospitalized After Combative Shoplifter At Long Island CVS Fights Back, Police Say A police officer was injured on Long Island when a woman became combative following her arrest for alleged shoplifting at an area CVS, authorities announced. Officers from the Nassau County Police Department responded to CVS on Merrick Road in Wantagh shortly before 1:30 p.m. on Monday, Aug. 30, where there was a report of a woman placing items into an empty shopping bag. When approached by an employee, the woman - later identified as Abigail Foster, age 25, of Staten Island - became confrontational and proceeded to leave the store without making an attempt to pay for the items she stuffed …

by Zak Failla

09/02/2021

Sports

Covid-19: Vaccination Status Factored Into Player Cuts, NFL Coach Says The spotlight is on first-year NFL head coach Urban Meyer, who is facing scrutiny for admitting COVID-19 vaccination status had an impact on how he shaped his final roster in advance of the upcoming regular season. Meyer and Jacksonville Jaguars General Manager Trent Baalke said this week that vaccination status impacted the cuts they made this past week while making final roster cuts to trim the roster down to the 53-man limit. Though vaccination status was considered in forming the roster, Meyer said it wasn’t a deciding factor, and production in practice and during the preseason also pla…

by Zak Failla

09/02/2021

News

Covid-19: Infection Rate Back Below 3 Percent In CT; Latest Breakdown Of Cases By County The positive COVID-19 infection rate in Connecticut was back down below 3 percent as the state continues to contend with new variants of the virus. Connecticut Gov. Ned Lamont said that there were 23,994 COVID-19 tests administered on Tuesday, Aug. 31, resulting in 712 new laboratory-confirmed cases of the virus. The 2.97 percent infection rate comes after days of the Department of Public Health recording rates exceeding 3 percent and peaking near 5 percent over the past month. Three COVID-19 patients were discharged from Connecticut hospitals, leaving 360 still being treated for the virus…

by Zak Failla

09/02/2021

Schools

Bus Driver Shortage To Affect Large Westchester District On First Day Of School Hundreds of students in one of New York's largest school districts will have to seek alternate routes to make their way to the first day of classes due to a bus driver shortage. Nearly 500 students in the Yonkers School District will be impacted by the national bus driver shortage when they return to school for the first day on Friday, Sept. 3. School officials said that the district was notified on Friday, Aug. 27 that there were not enough bus drivers to cover all routes, noting that there is a nationwide school bus driver shortage. With short notice, the district was forced to iss…

by Zak Failla

09/01/2021

News

UMass System Gets $50M Gift, Largest In School History The University of Massachusetts received a windfall from a pair of alumni that represents the largest cash gift in the school’s history. UMass announced that Robert J. and Donna Manning have provided a $50 million gift that is “aimed at increasing access and opportunity across the five-campus university system.” Moving forward, the first $15 million will be used to endow the UMass Boston nursing program, which will be renamed as the Robert and Donna Manning College of Nursing and Health Sciences in honor of the pair. Donna Manning had a 35-year career as an oncology nurse at Boston Medical…

by Zak Failla

09/01/2021

Schools

Covid-19: Students Quarantined In CT School District After Confirmed Cases Students in one of Connecticut’s largest school district have been forced to quarantine following newly confirmed cases of COVID-19. A total of 18 New Haven students have entered quarantine due to being close contacts following at least three confirmed cases of the virus, the district announced. This week, the New Haven School District reported that there were positive COVID-19 cases recorded at the Davis Street Magnet School, Edgewood Magnet School, and Beecher Magnet School. In total, nine students are in quarantine at Davis, six at Beecher, and three at Edgewood due to their potential …

by Zak Failla

09/01/2021

News

Nassau County Man Indicted For Decades-Long Role In $15M Bid-Rigging Scheme A Long Island man is facing charges for his role in a decades-long bid-rigging scheme that defrauded public benefits programs out of more than $15 million, the New York Attorney General announced. Great Neck resident Avraham “Avi” Cohen, age 60, was among five people charged in a 17-count indictment in New York County State Supreme Court for allegedly submitting thousands of false and inflated bids to the state and city. Attorney General Letitia James said that Cohen and his cohorts allegedly billed the New York State Office of Victim Services (OVS) and the New York City Human Resources Adm…

by Zak Failla

09/01/2021

Sports

Acting Mets GM Accused Of Driving Drunk In Westchester, Reports Say The New York Mets took another blow in what's been a difficult season after their acting general manager was arrested for alleged drunk driving in Westchester following a visit to the Fairfield County home of team owner Steve Cohen, according to reports. Acting GM Zack Scott reportedly Mets up and was busted for allegedly driving while intoxicated when he was busted at approximately 4:15 a.m. on Tuesday, Aug. 31 in White Plains, The New York Post first reported. It is alleged that at the time he was approached by officers on South Lexington Avenue in White Plains, Scott was asleep at the wh…

by Zak Failla

09/01/2021

Business

CT Working To Be Among First States To Make Electronic Driver's Licenses Connecticut officials are working with Apple to become one of the first states to make driver’s licenses and state IDs available electronically on the company’s devices. Gov. Ned Lamont took to social media to make the announcement that the state is in the preliminary planning phases to make licenses available on iPhones and Apple Watches. The electronic licenses would be accessible at airports, though further details were not available as the project is in the beginning phases. Connecticut is working to make electronic driver's licenses a realityTwitter/@GovNedLamont “Some tech news: …

by Zak Failla

09/01/2021

News

Covid-19: Hudson Valley Positive-Test Rate On Rise; Latest County Breakdown The positive COVID-19 infection rate in the Hudson Valley is back on the rise after seeing a slight dip as the region continues contending with the now-dominant Delta variant of the virus. After falling to 3.65 percent, the seven-day average COVID-19 infection rate in the Hudson Valley rose to 3.70 percent of those tested on Monday, Aug. 30, according to the latest update from the state Department of Health. Twenty-two New Yorkers died of virus-related deaths, according to the latest update from the state, including one in Dutchess County. Other deaths were reported in Queens (five),…

by Zak Failla

09/01/2021

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