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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

Rabies Alert Issued After Raccoon Tests Positive For Virus In Anne Arundel County A new alert has been issued in Anne Arundel County after a raccoon tested positive for rabies. The county's Department of Health issued an alert on Friday, Nov. 1 advising that anyone who may have come into contact with a raccoon this week in the 6500 block of Shadyside Road in Shadyside should contact officials after the animal tested positive for the virus. On Wednesday, Oct. 30, the raccoon tested positive for rabies, though therea re concerns it may have spread to other people and pets in the surrounding area. Rabies is a viral disease that mainly infects mammals (warm-blooded ani…

11/01/2024

Police & Fire

Road-Raging Driver Who 'Terrorized' Father In Leesburg Finds Out Fate At Sentencing A driver who was too fast and too furious is set to spend years behind bars in Virginia after a road rage incident involving a father and son in Loudoun County last fall. Ricardo Osiel Avilez Blanco, 28, was sentenced to serve eight years in the Virginia Department of Corrections with no time suspended for an attempted malicious wounding charge dating back to an episode that ended in the parking lot of Heritage High School in October 2023. According to prosecutors, on Oct. 14, 2023, a man was driving with his son in Leesburg when Avilez Blanco began to tailgate and aggressively f…

11/01/2024

Police & Fire

Police ID Driver Killed In Officer-Involved Shooting After I-95 Virginia Pursuit New details have been released by Virginia State Police investigators after one was killed in an officer-involved shooting involving Maryland men following a pursuit down I-95. A carjacking suspect wanted by US Parkway Police was spotted by a Virginia State Police trooper at round 10:15 p.m. on Wednesday night driving south on I-95, which led to a lengthy police pursuit when the driver refused to stop. During the pursuit, the driver, Lanham resident Andy Ernesto Espinoza Garay, 26, struck a Virginia State Police vehicle, causing it to overturn, and the chase continued on until trooper…

11/01/2024

Politics

Watch Barack Obama Surprise Volunteers Working For Senate Hopeful Angela Alsobrooks In Maryland Some volunteers working to elect Democratic Senate hopeful Angela Alsobrooks were in for a treat, not a trick on Halloween when former President Barack Obama paid them a visit. The 44th president made a pitstop with some Halloween cookies featuring pumpkins, witches hats, and bats to rally the delighted troops as Election Day rapidly approaches. Thank you @BarackObama for coming to Maryland today to help us defend the Democratic Senate majority! pic.twitter.com/s25RD3YXHa — Angela Alsobrooks (@AlsobrooksForMD) October 31, 2024 While pumping up the volunteers, Obama compared politics to…

11/01/2024

Police & Fire

Teens Critical After Triple Shooting In Arlington, Police Say A group of teens had a rough Halloween and are recovering in the hospital following a triple shooting in Arlington, police say. Shortly after 10:45 p.m. on Oct. 31, officers were called to the 4300 block of Columbia Pike to investigate a reported shooting, where they found three people suffering from gunshot wounds. First responders rendered aid until paramedics arrived, and the juveniles were taken to area hospitals - two in critical condition, and one with non-life-threatening injuries, according to the Arlington Police Department. The triple shooting remains under investigation as detec…

11/01/2024

Police & Fire

Tinted Windows Lead To Downfall For Pair In Westminster Packing Drugs In Maryland Van: Sheriff What started as a routine traffic stop led to a sizable bust in Carroll County when a pair was busted with drugs and cash. Ashley Marie Higgs, 31, and Matthew Alan Nagy, 29, both of whom have Westminster addresses, are both facing charges following a stop for illegally tinted windows on a 1999 Toyota van on Wednesday afternoon. Shortly before 3:30 p.m. on Oct. 30, members of the Carroll County Sheriff's Office on patrol in the area of Washington Road and East Green Street spotted the van, with "what appeared to be excessively dark window tint," which was later confirmed. During the stop, w…

11/01/2024

News

'Significant Risk To Community' 'Deserves Every Minute' Of Sentence In Leesburg: Prosecutor A man described as "a significant risk to the community" will spend nearly two decades in prison, prosecutors in Loudoun County announced on Thursday. Lorenzo Arnez Green, 39, who has a lengthy criminal history, was sentenced to 18 years in prison with no time suspended after being convicted on a host of charges following an incident that played out while he was on probation. Specifically, Green was convicted of: Two counts of possession with the. intent to distribute a Schedule I or II controlled substance; Possession of a Schedule I or II controlled substance; Possession of a fire…

11/01/2024

Politics

Maryland AG Orders DC Organization To Stop Threatening To Expose Registered Voters A voting information center in DC is under fire by the Attorney General's Office after allegedly targeting Maryland voters and purportedly threatening to expose whether or not they headed to the polls to neighbors. The AG issued a cease and desist letter on Thursday to the Center for Voter Information/Voter Participation Center (CVI/VPC) ordering the organization to stop sending letters to voters that threaten to publicly expose those registered voters who do not vote. In the letter, the organization was ordered to "refrain from sending threatening communications in the futu…

10/31/2024

Traffic

Traffic Backed Up Approximately Seven Miles On I-81 During Afternoon Commute In Virginia The afternoon commute was rough for some drivers on I-81 in Virginia who had to contend with lengthy delays on Thursday afternoon. An alert was issued by the Virginia Department of Transportation shortly before 5 p.m. when there was a multi-vehicle crash that backed up traffic for miles in the northbound lanes of the interstate. The crash was reported in the area of mile marker 314 in the County of Frederick. Update: Crash: NB on I-81 at MM314.7 (0.9mi south of VA-7 Exit315) in Frederick Co. 1 NB travel lane closed. Delay 7 mi. 4:56PM — 511 Virginia (@511statewideva) October 31, 2024 …

10/31/2024

News

Officers, Victim Identified In Police-Involved In-Custody Hagerstown Death The Maryland Attorney General's Office has identified the officers and suspect involved in an in-custody death in Washington County. New details have been released by investigators following a probe into the death of Hagerstown resident Kelvin Lashawn, 46, after he was taken into custody over the weekend. According to investigators, at approximately 10:15 p.m. on Oct. 26, members of the Hagerstown Police Department executed a search warrant at a home in the 100 block of East Washington Street, where they found Lashawn outside who was handcuffed and placed into a cruiser. While in the backs…

10/31/2024

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