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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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Police & Fire

Tip Leads Investigators To Former Leesburg Resident Caught With Child Pornography: Police A former Leesburg resident is being held behind bars after being charged with allegedly possessing child pornography, authorities announced. Vikram Joshi, 49, now of Virginia Beach, was arrested and charged with four counts of child pornography after the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children (NCMEC) was tipped off to his alleged activities. Following the investigation, officials said that the Leesburg Police Department obtained warrants for Joshi, who was arrested over the weekend and is now being held without bond pending his transfer back to Loudoun County to face the ch…

by Zak Failla

01/15/2025

Traffic

Traffic Delayed For Miles On I-495 Following Tractor-Trailer Crash In Fairfax (Developing) Traffic was temporarily backed up on Wednesday afternoon on I-495 in Northern Virginia as crews responded to a crash in Fairfax County. Several southbound lanes on the interstate were closed as of 2:30 p.m. on Jan. 15 at mile marker 52.2 in Fairfax, where there was a reported tractor-trailer crash in the area. Crash. I-495 SB (Outer Loop) before VA-267 (Exit 45/Dulles Toll Road). Fairfax County, VA. All travel lanes are currently blocked for incident response. Delays are approximately 4 miles. — MATOC Alerts (@MATOC) January 15, 2025 Details about the crash have not been released. Del…

by Zak Failla

01/15/2025

Police & Fire

Teen Found Shot To Death In Parked Car On Quiet Columbia Street Identified By Police Howard County police are searching for answers after a 17-year-old was found shot to death in a parked car in Columbia, officials announced. On Sunday, Jan. 14, officers located Lance Carrington, 17, of Columbia, in the driver’s seat of a vehicle on Helen Dorsey Way at approximately 8:30 p.m. suffering from at least one gunshot wound, police said. The circumstances surrounding the shooting remain unclear on Wednesday afternoon. Detectives believe the incident was not random and may have been drug-related. Investigators are working to determine the exact time of the shooting and are s…

by Zak Failla

01/15/2025

Police & Fire

Stabbing Suspect Surrenders, Confesses To 2014 Cold Case Baltimore Murders: Police Scott Barnett walked into the Southeast District police station over the weekend in Baltimore and made a confession that cracked open a decade-old mystery, officials said. Shortly before 6:30 p.m. on Sunday, Jan. 12, Barnett, 45, requested to speak with detectives and admitted to fatally stabbing two people—41-year-old Terrill Lehman and 46-year-old Charles Webster—inside a home in the 1600 block of Ralworth Road in late November 2014, according to police. The pair had been reported missing by loved ones in December 2014, and despite extensive searches at the time, their remains were never …

by Zak Failla

01/15/2025

Police & Fire

Teens Accused Of 'Assault By Mob' After Attacking Minor Over Rumor In Stafford, Sheriff Says A scary scene unfolded in North Stafford on Tuesday afternoon when a pair of teens violently assaulted another minor, according to the sheriff's office. Shortly after 4:15 p.m. on Jan. 14, deputies were called to the Highpointe Subdivision after receiving a call about a juvenile being threatened with a gun during an assault, officials said. The victim told deputies they were confronted by two suspects regarding a rumor while walking home. During the confrontation, a spokesperson from the sheriff's office said that one teen displayed a firearm before both allegedly attacked the v…

by Zak Failla

01/15/2025

Business

Winning $1M 'Powerball' Ticket Sold At Wegmans In Fredericksburg No one took home the $285 million Powerball jackpot on Monday, but one lucky lotto player in Virginia cashed in on a seven-figure prize sold at an area grocery store. Officials say that a second-tier winning ticket worth a whopping $1 million prize was sold at the Wegmans on Carl D. Silver Parkway in Fredericksburg, the largest win out of thousands statewide starting at $4. The winning numbers for the Powerball drawing on Monday, Jan. 13 were 04-06-16-39-66 with a Powerball of 09 and the Power Play multiplier was X2. With no winner, the jackpot will roll to $303 …

by Zak Failla

01/15/2025

News

No Charges Filed After Conowingo Man Killed By Father In Home Invasion Attempt: Prosecutors No charges will be filed following an incident in Cecil County that ended with a home invader dead in Conowingo, the state's attorney's office announced. In September 2024, local resident Joe Berry, Jr. was shot and killed amid an ongoing dispute between he and his elderly parents. Investigators say that state police troopers were called at around 2 p.m. to check on a reported shooting at a home in the 200 block of Mount Zoar Road, where they found Berry outside suffering from multiple gunshot wounds. According to police, they also found Berry's 80-year-old father at the scene, who decline…

by Zak Failla

01/15/2025

Police & Fire

Unruly Passenger Busted Ditching Drugs After Dash Across Lexington Park Highway: Sheriff A routine traffic stop in St. Mary’s County quickly turned into a high-stakes chase and major drug bust, netting deputies fentanyl, crack cocaine, and a wad of cash, authorities announced. It all went down on Tuesday, Jan. 14, when deputies pulled over a GMC Yukon Denali on Three Notch Road near Buck Hewitt Road. Things then took a turn. While deputies questioned the driver, Lexington Park resident Toney Leonard Daye, they spotted CDS paraphernalia in plain sight, investigators say. When asked to step out, the passenger, Thomas Austin Goldring III, who has no fixed …

by Zak Failla

01/15/2025

Schools

St. Agnes Catholic School To Close At End Of Academic Year In Catonsville The doors of St. Agnes Catholic School in Baltimore will close for good at the end of the 2024-25 academic year, marking the end of an era for the once bustling institution. Officials from the Archdiocese of Baltimore cited a sharp 25 percent enrollment decline in recent years as the driving force behind the decision, which they say has created insurmountable financial challenges. “This was not an easy decision to make and came after considerable discussion and extensive evaluation of the sustainability of the school,” school leaders said in a statement. "Unfortunately, consistent years of…

by Zak Failla

01/15/2025

Police & Fire

Aberdeen Homeowner’s Heroic Attempt To Stop Blaze Falls Short: Fire Marshal A Harford County homeowner tried to play the hero but was unable to knock down the flames when a late-night blaze broke out on his family's porch, according to the Office of the State Fire Marshal. The fire was reported around 9:45 p.m. Tuesday, Jan. 14, on the rear porch of a one-story home in the 600 block of Edmund Street in Aberdeen, officials said. Investigators say that the homeowners spotted an orange glow through their bedroom window, setting off an unfortunate chain of events. Rushing to the porch, they found a chair fully engulfed in flames, prompting one homeown…

by Zak Failla

01/15/2025

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