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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.

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Obituaries

Motorcyclist Killed In Baltimore County Crash Hours After Final Facebook Post: Police Maryland's motorcycle community is in mourning after one of their own was killed in a crash over the weekend. The Baltimore County Police Department identified 41-year-old Donald "Off Road" Busick, Jr. as the biker who was killed late on Saturday night in Middle River. According to police, shortly after 11:30 p.m. on May 18, officers were called to the intersection of Orems Road and Old Orems Road, where investigators say that Busick attempted to negotiate a left-hand turn and crashed. Google Maps street view Busick was treated by first responders and rushed to an area hospital, wh…

05/22/2024

News

Driver Dies Blowing Red Light, Passenger Critical In T-Bone Freightliner Crash In Crofton: PD A man who drove through a red light was killed and his passenger seriously injured when the vehicle was T-boned by a Freightliner unable to avoid them in Anne Arundel County, police say. Jack Michael Brown, 20, was heading west on Johns Hopkins Road in a 2020 Honda Insight when he ran through the light at the Crain Highway intersection in Crofton just before 12:30 a.m. on Wednesday, May 22, Anne Arundel County police said. A 2017 Freightliner 114SD heading north on Crain Highway and approaching a green light was unable to avoid them. Police say that the New Jersey driver of the truck …

05/22/2024

Police & Fire

Body-Cam Footage Released Of Officer-Involved Shooting Of Alleged Cat Killer In Pasadena New details have been released by the Anne Arundel County Police Department as they continue to probe an officer-involved shooting involving a 60-year-old woman earlier this year. In the afternoon of Thursday, March 28, officers were called to a home in the 8600 block of Gambier Harbor in Pasadena after being tipped off that a suspect had allegedly shot and killed a cat inside the residence. Police say that the woman was ordered out of the house, which she temporarily did before retreating back and coming outside with a handgun. Body-cam footage of the officer-involved shooting w…

05/21/2024

Traffic

Six Injured In Two-Vehicle Montgomery County Crash (Developing) Six people suffered reportedly traumatic injuries in a Montgomery County crash on Tuesday afternoon, officials say. First responders were called shortly before 3 p.m. to investigate a reported crash at Connecticut Avenue and Atherton Drive in Wheaton-Glenmont that left at least one passenger entrapped inside. Twitter/@mcfrsPIO According to a Montgomery County Fire and EMS spokesperson, the crash involved two vehicles, and there were a total of six people involved who suffered undisclosed "trauma injuries." During the investigation into the crash, several lanes in the area wer…

05/21/2024

Traffic

Torched Tractor-Trailer Ties Up Traffic On I-95 In Baltimore County (Developing) Traffic was backed up on the southbound lanes on I-95 in Baltimore County just in time for the Tuesday afternoon commute when a truck was torched. A tractor-trailer was fully engulfed and destroyed by fast-moving flames shortly after 3:30 p.,. on May 21 in Rosedale near the city-county line, officials say. ROSEDALE 28-5 TRACTOR TRAILER FIRE ON CITY COUNTY LINE pic.twitter.com/QxL4Kn6CaG — Baltimore Co. Volunteer Firefighter’s Association (@BaltCoVolFire) May 21, 2024 The fire was reported in the southbound lanes of the interstate near the split with I-895, leading to lane closures in t…

05/21/2024

Police & Fire

Sheriff's Deputy Who Raped Woman With Infant Nearby In Prince George's County Gets Prison Time Former Prince George's County Sheriff's deputy Brandon Burroughs may spend more than a decade on the other side of the prison bars for raping a woman with a child in a nearby room, authorities announced. Burroughs was sentenced to 20 years in prison with all but 20 years suspended - above the state's sentencing guidelines - for abusing a woman with a 1-year-old child inside an area home, according to the state's attorney's office. The 37-year-old Upper Marlboro resident was found guilty of second-degree rape in February. According to prosecutors, on Oct. 22 and Oct. 23, 2022, Burroughs wen…

05/21/2024

News

Student From Bethesda Falls $1 Short Of Massive Upset In Jeopardy! Debut It came down to the wire, but a student from Maryland came up just short to a three-time champ in her nail-biting Jeopardy! debut on Monday. Bethesda resident Ivonne Zhou who studied biology at the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill made the most of her time on the quiz show, missing out on a monumental upset by a mere one dollar. Zhou's episode aired on Monday, May 20. During the episode, she was able to accrue a $7,000 score before doubling it on the Final Jeopardy! question for an impressive $14,000 total that was only bested by three-time champ Grant DeYoung, a grocery clerk f…

05/21/2024

Obituaries

Young Father Of Two Killed By Gunman In District Heights Had Bright Future 'Cruelly Stolen' A Maryland family is in "the darkest chapter of their lives" after a 22-year-old member of their household was shot and killed in a Prince George's County Parking lot. District Heights native ZaMarco Kyree Fogg was found by the police late in the afternoon on Thursday May 16 in the 6500 block of Hil Mar Drive, suffering from a fatal gunshot wound, officials say. Detectives are on scene working to establish a suspect and motive in this case. Anyone with information is asked to contact @PGCrimeSolvers on the web or submit your tip using the P3 Tips app. pic.twitter.com/4DirQ7NCSa — PGPDNEW…

05/21/2024

Police & Fire

Candle To Blame For House Fire That Injured One In Montgomery County, Officials Say One person was injured attempting to put out a house fire that was caused by a candle that sparked combustibles in Montgomery County, investigators say. On Monday afternoon, Montgomery County Fire and EMS personnel were called to the 15400 block of Peach Leaf Drive off Quince Quince Road where there was a reported fire in the second floor of a single-family, split-level home. The Peach Leaf Drive fire. Twitter/@mcfrsPIO According to officials, there was one person in the home when the fire broke out, and they were able to escape, though non-life-threatening injuries were reported after …

05/21/2024

Police & Fire

Pair Linked To Shots Fired At MPD Officer Charged After Landover Crash: Police Two men implicated in a shooting involving a veteran Metropolitan Police Department officer are facing weapons charges after crashing in Prince George's County during a police pursuit, officials say. Rasheed Thorne, and William Walker IV, both 21, neither of whom has a fixed address, were taken into custody and charged with weapons offenses after crashing their vehicle in Landover, according to the Prince George's County Police Department. Update: Chief Pamela A. Smith provides an update regarding the off-duty MPD captain injured when shots were fired at their personal vehicle in the 580…

05/21/2024

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