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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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News

Teen Girl Reported Missing In Charles County May Be With Adult Boyfriend, Sheriff Says Seen her? Concerns are mounting for friends and family of a 15-year-old girl in Charles County who has not been seen since March and may be with her adult boyfriend. An alert was issued by the Charles County Sheriff's Office on Wednesday as they seek the public's assistance in locating Patricia Castro, who was last seen on Thursday, March 28 in the 4100 block of Bluebird Drive in Waldorf. According to investigators, family members believe she left on her own with her boyfriend, 19-year-old Jose Leon-Gutierrez. Castro was described as being 5-feet tall and weighs an estimated 160 pou…

05/22/2024

Lifestyle

Vietnam Vet Credits Good Luck Kiss For $90K Win On Maryland Lottery 'Big Spin Wheel' A Vietnam Vet is crediting a kiss from his wife of nearly 50 years for a $90,000 Maryland Lottery windfall. "Rolling Thunder," a Baltimore County retiree, walked over to his wife to exchange a good luck kiss before taking his position at The Big Spin Wheel at Lottery Headquarters, where he was the happy winner of a five-figure prize. According to Lottery officials, when the wheel came to a stop at the $90,000 mark, the room erupted into applause and the prize brought tears to the woman's eyes. The second BIG SPIN. Maryland Lottery “I don’t believe this,” she said after her husba…

05/22/2024

Schools

Teen Student Charged As Adult For Carrying Gun On School Grounds In Montgomery County: Police A 16-year-old who came to school armed with a handgun in Montgomery County will be charged as an adult, according to police. An eagle-eyed teacher at Paint Branch High School spotted what was believed to be a gun on a boy at the school on Tuesday morning, leading to his apprehension, officials say. Shortly before 10:15 a.m. on May 21, Montgomery County Department of Police Community Engagement officers were called to the campus in the 14100 block of Old Columbia Pike to investigate the incident. The student, Derreon Vick, consented to a self-search, which police say led to the recover…

05/22/2024

Police & Fire

Virginia Man Accused Of Car Meet Murder In Maryland, Police Say A Virginia man is in custody following an investigation into the fatal shooting of a 26-year-old man at a "car meet" in Maryland early on Sunday morning, authorities announced. Stafford resident Raheem Adams, 22, is being held in Virginia following a joint investigation with the Prince George's County Police Department in connection to the murder of Waldorf native John Phipps inside a vehicle over the weekend, police say. This morning, deputies with the SCSO assisted PGPD's Homicide Unit with taking 22-year-old Raheem Adams into custody who was wanted for first and second degree murder. …

05/22/2024

News

District Man Pleads Guilty Mid-Trial To Attempted Murder Caught On Camera In Maryland (Videos) A District man saw the writing on the wall and decided to plead guilty in the middle of a trial for an attempted murder that was caught on camera in Maryland, authorities announced. Demonte Hewitt, 22, indicated on Tuesday, in the middle of a jury trial, that he wanted to enter a guilty plea in connection to a shooting in a well-known Silver Spring alleyway following a wild chase in June 2022, according to the Montgomery County State's Attorney's Office. Montgomery County State's Attorney's Office Prosecutors said that in the early morning hours of June 15, 2022, a man left a birthday ce…

05/22/2024

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

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