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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

Four Injured, One Killed In Separate Baltimore Shootings During Violent Night, Police Say Five people were shot - one fatally in Baltimore over the course of less than 90 minutes overnight as violence in the city continues to cause concerns in the community. The busy night for police began shortly after 11 p.m. on Saturday, Feb. 4, when officers were called to the 1500 block of Medford Road to investigate a reported shooting in the area. Upon arrival, officers say that they found a 60-year-old woman and a 17-year-old teen victim who suffered non-life-threatening injuries. Both were transported to area hospitals for treatment and evaluation. An hour later, shortly before 12:15 …

by Zak Failla

02/05/2023

News

Maryland Security Guard Cleared In Nicholas Lee's Fatal Grocery Store Killing No shirt, some shoes, no charges. The Baltimore security guard who shot and killed a disorderly shirtless man who started a massive brawl in the meat section of a Giant grocery store who won't be facing charges, State’s Attorney Ivan Bates announced. NOW: Family members say the altercation started concerning Lee wearing his t-shirt in the store. Loved ones say the fatal shooting could’ve been prevented. @BaltimorePolice say they are investigating the security guard’s actions. No charged have been filed in the case. @wbaltv11 pic.twitter.com/JAzEIEhtuN — Tre Ward ABC 7 (@TreWardTV) July …

by Zak Failla

02/05/2023

News

Naked, Covered In Blood: Virginia Navy Corpsman Fesses Up To DC Businessman's Slaying A Virginia man who was found naked and covered in blood after dragging his victim’s dead body out of his own Washington, DC apartment in 2019 has admitted to his crime, authorities said. Collin Potter, 30, of Quantico, pleaded guilty to second-degree murder while armed for the butchering of Vongell Lugo on Jan. 6, 2019, in which Potter stabbed his victim 42 times, federal officials said. The incident began at approximately 4 a.m. when the two were together in Lugo’s Garfield House apartment on Wisconsin Avenue, police said. Potter — who according to NBC Washington and the Navy Ti…

by Zak Failla

02/04/2023

Police & Fire

Dogs Killed, Family Displaced By Two-Alarm Washington County Barn Blaze: Fire Marshal Two dogs were killed in a massive two-alarm barn fire that caused massive damage to a Washington County property on Friday night. Shortly after 8:15 p.m. on Friday, Feb. 3, members of the Sharpsburg Fire Department were called to Mansfield Road in Keedysville, where a neighbor reported a barn fire that had broken out, officials said. It took a team of nearly five dozen firefighters approximately 90 minutes to get the flames under control, but not before it caused an estimated $150,000 ($100,000 to the structure, $50,000 to its contents) in damage, according to the Office of the Maryland Fir…

by Zak Failla

02/04/2023

Police & Fire

Fiery Residential Shooting Under Investigation in Prince George's County, Police Say Police in Prince George's have released explosive photos as they seek the public’s assistance in tracking down a suspect wanted for arson and for firing shots into a Greenbelt residence. An investigation was launched by the Greenbelt Police Department on Saturday, Feb. 4 following an incident that was caught on camera in the 6200 block of Breezewood Court, authorities announced. According to police, a suspect wearing an appropriate face covering set fire to the door of a residence before shots were reportedly fired into the apartment. The suspect was described as being a dark-skinned man …

by Zak Failla

02/04/2023

Police & Fire

Bank Robber At Large After Targeting TD Bank In Prince William County Recognize him? Police in Prince William County are seeking the public’s assistance in locating a man who robbed a TD Bank location in Dumfries on Friday afternoon. Shortly after 2:30 p.m. on Friday, Feb. 3, police say that officers were called to the bank branch on Richmond Highway to investigate a robbery after a man approached a teller with a note demanding cash. He took an undisclosed amount of money before fleeing the bank on foot, a spokesman for the Prince William County Police Department said. No weapon was seen, and no injuries were reported. A canvas of the area with a police K9…

by Zak Failla

02/04/2023

Schools

Former Gilman School Teacher Hit With Sexual Child Abuse Charge: Baltimore County PD A former teacher at the Gilman School is facing rape and other charges for alleged “suspicious relationships” with current and former students, according to the Baltimore County Police Department. On Friday, Feb. 3, police officials announced that Christopher Bendann was been arrested following an investigation into the allegations of at least one victim, and authorities say there could be more who have not come forward. In January, that detectives from the department's Crimes Against Children Unit were advised by Child Protective Services that a teacher at the Gilman School had lost his …

by Zak Failla

02/03/2023

News

Three Virginia College Students Killed, Two Airlifted To Hospital After Crash (Developing) Three Virginia college students were killed and two others suffered life-threatening injuries and remain hospitalized following a fatal crash in West Virginia near the state line, according to officials. On Thursday, Feb. 2, a one-vehicle crash was reported along Route 259 in West Virginia, when a driver lost control for undisclosed reasons and struck a tree. Five people were in the car at the time of the crash, three of which died from injuries from the crash, and two were airlifted to an area hospital in critical condition. Their condition was not immediately available on Friday, Feb. 3.…

by Zak Failla

02/03/2023

Police & Fire

Homeless Man Pepper Sprays Same Woman During New PWC Altercation, Police Say Officers from the Prince William Police Department apprehended a man who busted out pepper spray during an altercation with a female friend inside a Woodbridge apartment complex. Travis Domineck Hilliard, 45, who investigators say has no fixed address, was arrested early on Friday, Feb. 3, by police investigating a reported domestic incident at the Elevations One Apartments in the 14300 block of Bellona Road. The incident was reported shortly before 2:45 a.m. on Friday morning. According to police, the investigation found that Hilliard got into a verbal altercation with a 45-year-old woman…

by Zak Failla

02/03/2023

Sports

NJ Olympian Stars In 'This Is SportsCenter' ESPN Ad (Video) Famed New Jersey Olympian Sydney McLaughlin is sprinting straight from the track onto sports fans’ television screens. The 23-year-old Dunellen native is back in the spotlight, this time starring in the latest “This is SportsCenter” commercial for ESPN, which cleverly highlighted her record-setting career. In the 15-second commercial, ESPN personality Hannah Storm approaches McLaughlin at the company’s offices, where she is sitting in a cubicle adorned with some of the relics of her athletic past. Storm asks the sprinter to catch up, to which the New Jersey native responds that “Yeah, I’…

by Zak Failla

02/03/2023

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