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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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Sketch, New Details Released Of Suspect Wanted In Rachel Morin's Maryland Murder Sketch, New Details Released Of Suspect Wanted In Rachel Morin's Maryland Murder
Sketch, New Details Released Of Suspect Wanted In Rachel Morin's Maryland Murder New details and a fresh sketch of Rachel Morin's purported murderer in Maryland on the Ma & Pa Trail in Bel Air have been released by the Harford County Sheriff's Office. Six months after Morin's disappearance, investigators released the new sketch as they continue their efforts to track down the woman's killer, which includes the distribution of thousands of bi-lingual flyers in Maryland and California. "Over the last six months detectives have conducted more than 100 interviews and followed up on more than 1,000 tips," officials said. "Their investigation has led them to seven differe…

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Police & Fire
Fire May Have Been Caused By Homeless Seeking Refuge In Maryland Shed, Investigators Say Fire May Have Been Caused By Homeless Seeking Refuge In Maryland Shed, Investigators Say
Fire May Have Been Caused By Homeless Seeking Refuge In Maryland Shed, Investigators Say A shed fire behind a row of townhouses in Cecil County caused hundreds of thousands of dollars in damage and left 10 people in two homes displaced, officials say. In Elkton, crews were called to Mallard Court at around 12:45 a.m. on Sunday morning, to battle a blaze that broke out in the back of a property and spread to two neighboring homes. The fire caused an estimated $500,000 in damages, and left 10 people displaced who are being assisted by friends and the American Red Cross. It took firefighters approximately an hour to get the flames knocked down. Other nearby homes also sustained m…

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Nick Bosa's GF Is Model From Philadelphia Who Spent Time At The Jersey Shore Nick Bosa's GF Is Model From Philadelphia Who Spent Time At The Jersey Shore
Nick Bosa's GF Is Model From Philadelphia Who Spent Time At The Jersey Shore If you're watching Super Bowl LVIII for the Usher halftime show, the commercial's, and Taylor Swift, here's someone else to keep an eye out for. Meet Lauren Maenner, a model with Philadelphia roots who grew up vacationing at the Jersey Shore. Her boyfriend? 49ers defensive end, 26-year-old Nick Bosa (not Taylor Swift's boyfriend's teammate).  It's not immediately clear when the athlete and the model started dating, but Maenner, also 26, hinted at it when the 49ers played the Eagles last December. "Haha this is awkward," the longtime Eagles fan captioned the photo, in which she's wearing t…

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Man Who Photoshopped Naked Prepubescent Girls Into Photos Around His Virginia Home Sentenced Man Who Photoshopped Naked Prepubescent Girls Into Photos Around His Virginia Home Sentenced
Man Who Photoshopped Naked Prepubescent Girls Into Photos Around His Virginia Home Sentenced A Fairfax County man will spend years in prison for downloading millions of images and videos of child exploitation, including child sexual abuse material and computer-generated videos depicting the violent rape of children, federal authorities announced. James Andrew Whitney, 62, has been sentenced to seven years behind bars after admitting to downloading, and creating projects where he would photoshop prepubescent children into photos around his home and narrated sexual encounters between them and himself. According to prosecutors, Whitney sought out and downloaded video an…

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Bloods Gang Member Convicted For Shooting Woman At Virginia Home, Fleeing To Maryland Bloods Gang Member Convicted For Shooting Woman At Virginia Home, Fleeing To Maryland
Bloods Gang Member Convicted For Shooting Woman At Virginia Home, Fleeing To Maryland A purported gang member in Virginia has been convicted of a violent drive-by shooting in April last year in Prince William County, the Office of the Commonwealth's Attorney announced. Sean Hughes, Jr., a member of the Bloods, has been found guilty of shooting into a Triangle home in the 3500 block of Wharf Lane that sent a woman to the hospital with serious injuries.  According to prosecutors, on April 19, 2023, Hughes and an underaged co-conspirator opened fire at the Triangle home, striking a 58-year-old woman inside multiple times, while a detective and another bystander were nearly…

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Police & Fire
Murder Suspects Implicated In Armed Assault In Maryland: Police Murder Suspects Implicated In Armed Assault In Maryland: Police
Murder Suspects Implicated In Armed Assault In Maryland: Police Three people have been arrested after a man was found shot to death in Washington County late last month, authorities announced. Jenaro Torres, 26, Emens Rho, 39, and Stephanie Paulino, 35, are all facing charges following an investigation into the fatal shooting of 38-year-old Kevin Michael Shepherd early on Friday, Jan. 26 in Hagerstown. According to the Hagerstown Police Department, at approximately 9:50 a.m. on the day of the shooting, officers responded to the 1200 block of Marshall Street to investigate reports of shots in the area. Upon arrival, police say that they found Shepherd i…

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Paraeducator Admits To Assaulting Non-Verbal Student During Dance Class In Maryland Paraeducator Admits To Assaulting Non-Verbal Student During Dance Class In Maryland
Paraeducator Admits To Assaulting Non-Verbal Student During Dance Class In Maryland A 65-year-old Baltimore woman has been convicted after entering an Alford Plea to second-degree assault involving students with special needs, the Howard County State's Attorney announced this week. Annette Melvina Bouldin was found guilty of second-degree assault for her involvement in an incident last September while she was a paraeducator assisting in the Academic Life Skills dance class at Mount Hebron High School An Alford Plea is a type of guilty plea in which the defendant does not admit to committing the crime but agrees that the prosecution has enough evidence to obtain a convictio…

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Police & Fire
Minor Accused Of Aiding In Terrorism Following Series Of Swatting Incidents In VA, Sheriff Says Minor Accused Of Aiding In Terrorism Following Series Of Swatting Incidents In VA, Sheriff Says
Minor Accused Of Aiding In Terrorism Following Series Of Swatting Incidents In VA, Sheriff Says A juvenile who has caused chaos for the Stafford County Sheriff's Office has been charged and prosecuted following a lengthy investigation into a series of swatting incidents, authorities announced. Between May and September last year, investigators say that crews were called to a plethora of swatting incidents at several schools that were purportedly targeted by the underage suspect. Buildings involved in the swatting incidents include:  Stafford High School; Brooke Point High School; Dixon Smith Middle School; Drew Middle School. In each incident officials say that they "were each …

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Man Convicted Of Raping Woman Doing Laundry After She Rebuffed His Advances: Harford Officials Man Convicted Of Raping Woman Doing Laundry After She Rebuffed His Advances: Harford Officials
Man Convicted Of Raping Woman Doing Laundry After She Rebuffed His Advances: Harford Officials A 33-year-old Harford County man has been convicted of raping a young woman close to his family after she rebuffed his advances, authorities announced. Jose Wilfred Orellana-Cedillos is facing decades in prison after being found guilty at trial for terrorizing a 23-year-old woman after he asked her for a kiss and she said no, officials say. According to the Harford County State's Attorney's Office, at trial, the woman testified that after she turned him down, Orellana-Cedillos continued to pursue her, groping her, digitally penetrating her, and forcibly raping her in the basement of th…

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Repeat Bank Robber To Spend Decade In Prison For Targeting Same Carroll County Branch Twice Repeat Bank Robber To Spend Decade In Prison For Targeting Same Carroll County Branch Twice
Repeat Bank Robber To Spend Decade In Prison For Targeting Same Carroll County Branch Twice A 28-year-old man will spend years behind bars after admitting to a pair of bank robberies at the same location that were caught on camera years ago in Carroll County over the course of several months, officials say. Jimmie Lee Benjamin Haney pleaded guilty on Friday to one count of robbery and one count of armed robbery for two separate bank robberies at the same Capital One branch in September 2016 and January 2017. Haney was caught on camera entering the bank on East Ridgeville Boulevard in Mt. Airy in September 2016, when he handed a note to the teller demanding cash, which they complie…

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