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Zak Failla

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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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Schools
Non-Fatal Fentanyl Overdose Reported At Charles County High School: Sheriff Non-Fatal Fentanyl Overdose Reported At Charles County High School: Sheriff
Non-Fatal Fentanyl Overdose Reported At Charles County High School: Sheriff An investigation has been launched by the Charles County Sheriff’s Office after a high school student was found semi-conscious after potentially ingesting an edible laced with fentanyl. At approximately 10:45 a.m. on Wednesday, March 22, a student was found on a bathroom floor inside St. Charles High School and had to be treated by a school nurse until the teen could be rushed to an area hospital. On Thursday, March 23, investigators said that it was determined the student consumed an edible gummy Life Saver gummy before he was found in the bathroom. The initial investigation into the inci…

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News
Body Spotted In Loch Raven Reservoir In Baltimore County (DEVELOPING) Body Spotted In Loch Raven Reservoir In Baltimore County (DEVELOPING)
Body Spotted In Loch Raven Reservoir In Baltimore County (Developing) A body was found in the water at the Loch Raven Reservoir on Thursday afternoon in Baltimore County, police say. At approximately 1:45 p.m. on Thursday, March 23, officers were called to a stretch Dulaney Valley Road near Jarrettsville Pike, where there was a report of a body that was found in the water. The body has since reportedly been discovered and Baltimore County Police officers are conducting an investigation. No additional information was provided by officials. This is a developing story. Check Daily Voice for updates.

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Police & Fire
Sleeping Woman Sexually Assaulted At PWC Party; Suspect Still At Large, Police Say Sleeping Woman Sexually Assaulted At PWC Party; Suspect Still At Large, Police Say
Sleeping Woman Sexually Assaulted At PWC Party; Suspect Still At Large, Police Say The search is on for a sexual assault suspect who allegedly took advantage of a sleeping woman in Prince William County and remains on the lam nearly a week later. Alphonso Page, 33, is at large and is wanted by the Prince William County Police Department on a sexual assault warrant that was obtained on Thursday, March 23, according to officials. The incident was reported shortly before 9 a.m. on Saturday, March 18 in the Potomac Vista Apartments on Cove Landing Drive in Woodbridge, where detectives were called in to investigate a sexual assault. It is alleged that the victim, a 25-year-ol…

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Obituaries
Mother Killed On I-695 Remembered For 'Touching The Lives Of Those Who Came Around Her' Mother Killed On I-695 Remembered For 'Touching The Lives Of Those Who Came Around Her'
Mother Killed On I-695 Remembered For 'Touching The Lives Of Those Who Came Around Her' The community is rallying around the family of a 26-year-old mother who was unexpectedly killed earlier this month when she was struck by a car on I-695 in Anne Arundel County. Thousands of dollars were raised within a few hours on behalf of Deja Sharon May, who was the victim of a fatal crash shortly before 9:20 p.m. on Saturday, March 18 in Linthicum Heights. According to the family, they were not fully prepared for the cost of a funeral service, and a GoFundMe fundraiser was set up on their behalf that was already nearing its goal 12 hours after its creation. The family said that they …

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Police & Fire
Woman Carjacked At Rifle Point In Coordinated Attack Involving Four Vehicles, Police Say Woman Carjacked At Rifle Point In Coordinated Attack Involving Four Vehicles, Police Say
Woman Carjacked At Rifle Point In Coordinated Attack Involving Four Vehicles, Police Say Carjackers boxed in a woman’s SUV and robbed her with a rifle as she was arriving to work in Hyattsville on Thursday morning, according to the police department. Shortly before 6 a.m. on Thursday, March 23, police say that a woman pulled into the parking lot in the 3500 block of East West Highway when four vehicles surrounded her 2016 silver Nissan Rogue, with one suspect pointed a rifle at her and pulled her from the truck during the targeted attack. The suspects then fled in the stolen vehicle west on East West Highway. The victim was unharmed. Police described the suspect as being a Bla…

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News
Man Being Pursued By Police In VA Dies After Shooting Himself In Rideshare Vehicle: PD Man Being Pursued By Police In VA Dies After Shooting Himself In Rideshare Vehicle: PD
Man Being Pursued By Police In VA Dies After Shooting Himself In Rideshare Vehicle: PD A death investigation has been launched in Arlington after a man in his 20s fleeing from police shot himself in the back of a rideshare vehicle, police say. Shortly after 8 p.m. on Wednesday, March 22, the Arlington Police Department were advised of a Virginia State Police pursuit after a suspect made his way to the Clarendon neighborhood and fled his vehicle on foot. Officers patrolling the area later spotted the suspect getting into the backseat of a rideshare, which was stopped by police at the intersection of 10th Street North and North Edgewood Street, at which point a weapon was disc…

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News
Child's Quick Thinking During Fire Saved Further Damage To Howard County Townhome: Officials Child's Quick Thinking During Fire Saved Further Damage To Howard County Townhome: Officials
Child's Quick Thinking During Fire Saved Further Damage To Howard County Townhome: Officials Possible disaster was averted in Howard County on Thursday morning when a quick-thinking child alerted emergency personnel to a fire that had broken out inside their townhome. Early on Thursday, March 23, Howard County Fire and EMS crews were called to a house fire in the 10200 block of Greek Boy Place in Columbia by a child who smelled smoke coming from a mini fridge. According to a spokesperson for the department, firefighters found smoke coming from the third floor of the residence, and they were quickly able to knock down the flames before the fire spread. “This fire could have been m…

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Police & Fire
Police ID Man Killed In Rollover Gaithersburg Crash Police ID Man Killed In Rollover Gaithersburg Crash
Police ID Man Killed In Rollover Gaithersburg Crash Police have positively identified the Gaithersburg man who was killed in an early-morning rollover crash in Montgomery County earlier this week. Mark Sampson, 48, was killed shortly before 12:30 a.m. on Wednesday, March 22 when he crashed his Toyota 4Runner while driving along the 14400 block of Turkey Foot Road in Gaithersburg. Investigators say that Sampson was driving west along the road when for unknown reasons, he lost control, struck several trees, and overturned the Toyota. Sampson was pronounced dead at the scene. The Montgomery County Department of Police’s Collision Reconstructi…

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News
Six Construction Workers Killed In I-695 Crash ID'd By Maryland State Police Six Construction Workers Killed In I-695 Crash ID'd By Maryland State Police
Six Construction Workers Killed In I-695 Crash ID'd By Maryland State Police Additional details have been released by Maryland State Police as they continue their probe into the fatal Baltimore Beltway crash that killed six highway workers. The day after the crash, on Thursday, March 23, the six victims of the fatal crash were positively identified by state police investigators, hours after they laid out the details of the events leading up to the fatal incident.  The victims were identified as:  Rolando Ruiz, 46, of Laurel; Carlos Orlando Villatoro Escobar, 43, of Frederick; Jose Armando Escobar, 52, of Frederick; Mahlon Simmons III, 31, of Union Bridge; Mahlon …

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Three Injured In School Bus Crash With Minivan Near Montgomery County School Three Injured In School Bus Crash With Minivan Near Montgomery County School
Three Injured In School Bus Crash With Minivan Near Montgomery County School Three people were hospitalized - one critically - after a minivan smashed into the back of a school bus in Montgomery County on Thursday morning. Montgomery Fire and Rescue personnel were called on Thursday, March 23 to a stretch of Mid County Highway near Washington Grove Lane when the van struck an unoccupied bus near Shady Grove Middle School, leaving the driver trapped inside, according to officials. The scene of the crash.@mcfrsPIO The driver was extricated and three people were transported to area hospitals for treatment and evaluation of various injuries. The scene of the cra…

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