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Zak Failla

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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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Business

Woman Weeps With Joy While Sharing News Of $1M Powerball Win With Family In Howard County A Howard County woman is still stunned a week after winning a million dollars playing a Powerball ticket. The lucky winner said that she typically buys tickets once a week, shooting for the jackpot games such as Powerball or Mega Millions, and while she didn't hit the $1.09 billion jackpot for the drawing on Wednesday, April 3, she struck gold on a ticket sold at Royal Farms on Montevideo Road in Jessup. “I know the odds are long,” she said, “but somebody always eventually wins.” She sure did, but didn't realize it immediately, the woman mused. “My nephew called me the ne…

04/11/2024

Police & Fire

Woman Being Evicted From Northwest DC Apartment Threatened To Shoot US Marshals: MPD The 59-year-old woman who barricaded herself inside a Northwest DC apartment and threatened federal officials attempting to evict her is facing multiple criminal charges, according to the Metropolitan Police Department. Camille Ceasar didn't go down quietly and will have a new place to stay behind bars after she was arrested for pointing a gun at officers during an eviction situation that escalated rapidly, officials say. Shortly before noon on Wednesday afternoon, officers and members of the US Marshals Service were called to assist in the eviction of Ceasar from her apartment in the 4000 …

04/11/2024

Traffic

Two Drivers Killed In Head-On Route 165 Crash In Harford County: State Police (Developing) Two people were killed in a head-on crash on Maryland Route 165 in Harford County on Thursday morning, state police confirmed. Shortly before 8:30 a.m. on April 11, troopers were called to a stretch of the highway near St. Mary's Road in Pylesville, where there was a reported multi-vehicle crash. 8:36 AM ‪Both patients have been pronounced dead. The road will remain shut down for Maryland State Police... Posted by Harford County Md Fire & EMS PIO Media Page on Thursday, April 11, 2024 According to the preliminary investigation, a 2014 Chevy Equinox, for unknown reasons, cr…

04/11/2024

News

District Man Charged With Murder For Separate DC Slayings Facing Life In Prison: Feds A 23-year-old District man is facing multiple murder charges following separate slayings and robberies in 2021 and 2022, federal authorities announced. Corde Fitzhugh-Clingman was indicted by a grand jury in the Superior Court of the District of Columbia this week on multiple counts of felony murder and other related offenses for his alleged role in the killing of Bristow resident Muntsier Sharfi in July 2021 and Zekariya Elmi, 26, in April 2022. On July 8, 2021, Prince George's County Fire and EMS personnel were called to the 3300 block of Southern Avenue SE, where they found Sharfi, 24, a…

04/11/2024

Police & Fire

Elderly Man Accused Of Sexually Assaulting Young Girl In Dumfries Hotel Elevator: Police An 80-year-old man has been charged for allegedly sexually assaulting a young girl in the elevator of a Prince William County hotel, police say. Dennis James Schettino, of Calabash, North Carolina, was arrested and charged with aggravated sexual battery for an alleged incident that was reported early on Easter Sunday at the Hampton Inn on Old Stage Road in Dumfries. According to police, at around 9:30 a.m. on March 31, officers from the Prince William County Police Department were called to investigate when a girl under the age of 15 said that she was accosted in the elevator by an unknown …

04/11/2024

Police & Fire

DC Gunman Shot Wrong Woman, Then Told Her To Call 911: Feds A purported case of mistaken identity led to one woman being shot and landed her shooter behind bars following an incident in Southeast DC, federal authorities say. Michael Owusu-Sakyi, 47, was charged in federal court this week for aggravated assault while armed after shooting a woman early in the morning on Friday, April 5, then having second thoughts after realizing she wasn't his intended target. Police say that at approximately 9:45 a.m. on the morning of the shooting, officers were called to the 1700 block of Fairlawn Avenue SE, where there was a reported shooting. Responding office…

04/11/2024

Police & Fire

Repeat Offender Indicted For Murder Of Visiting Teacher Near Catholic University In DC: Feds A 22-year-old District man with a checkered criminal past has been indicted in connection to the fatal, targeted shooting of a visiting teacher near the Catholic University of America in Northeast DC last summer, federal authorities announced. Jaime Macedo is facing murder and other charges following the fatal on-campus shooting of 25-year-old Kentucky resident Maxwell Emerson, a teacher and wrestling coach in Oldham County, in what was initially described as "an incident of violence" by officials. We are aware that there was an incident of violence that resulted in a fatality this morni…

04/11/2024

News

Body Of Missing PA Woman Pulled From Susquehanna River 60+ Miles Away In Glen Cove: Officials The case of a Pennsylvania woman missing for more than five weeks came to a tragic end in Maryland, Daily Voice has learned. The body of Rebecca "Becky" Shanice Beamer-Hicks, 35, of Harrisburg, was recovered from the Susquehanna River Tuesday morning, April 9 in Harford County, a spokesman for the Maryland Natural Resources Police said. Beamer-Hicks' body was recovered near Glen Cove, more than 66 miles up the river from where he sent missing, the MNRP said. The extensive search was launched on March 1, when Beamer-Hicks was first reported missing. The search was later …

04/11/2024

News

Second Shooter Apprehended Nine Months After Murder Of Woman In Northeast DC, Police Say Police have arrested a suspected shooter nearly 10 months after a 54-year-old woman was found dead in Northeast DC, authorities announced. James Outland, 25, who has no fixed address, has been arrested and charged with first-degree murder while armed in connection to the fatal shooting of Tavonayna Glenn in June last year, according to the Metropolitan Police Department. Shortly after 10 p.m. on Wednesday, June 28, 2023, officers from the department were called to the 700 block of 19th Street NE to investigate a reported shooting, where they found Glenn, who also had no fixed address, in th…

04/11/2024

Police & Fire

Police ID Maryland Man Killed In Mass Carver-Langston Shooting New details have been released by the Metropolitan Police Department after the fatal mass shooting in the Carver-Langston neighborhood in Northeast DC on Wednesday night that left a Maryland man dead. Largo resident Aubrey McLeod, 29, has been identified by investigators as the person killed by shooters in an incident that left five others - including two children - hospitalized, officials say. #Update: Chief Smith holds a news conference on the shooting that injured 6 people in the 1100 block of 21st Street Northeast tonight. pic.twitter.com/B6DRhDMQYJ — DC Police Department (@DCPolice…

04/11/2024

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