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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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Police & Fire
Flasher At Nordstrom Rack In Potomac Mills Mall Still At Large, Police Say Flasher At Nordstrom Rack In Potomac Mills Mall Still At Large, Police Say
Flasher At Nordstrom Rack In Potomac Mills Mall Still At Large, Police Say A 29-year-old man is on the run after police say he exposed himself inside a busy department store at a Northern Virginia mall. Douglas Edward Boomer, of Woodbridge, is wanted for indecent exposure following a disturbing incident inside the Nordstrom Rack at Potomac Mills, police in Prince William County said on Tuesday, June 3. Officers were called to the store at 2700 Potomac Mills Circle in Woodbridge around 2:37 p.m. on Thursday, May 29. According to investigators, Boomer was seen exposing himself inside the store, and when an employee confronted him, and he took off before police arri…

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Obituaries
Frederick Gym Rat, 20, Killed In Fiery I-70 Crash ‘Built Strength Physically, Spiritually’ Frederick Gym Rat, 20, Killed In Fiery I-70 Crash ‘Built Strength Physically, Spiritually’
Frederick Gym Rat, 20, Killed In Fiery I-70 Crash ‘Built Strength Physically, Spiritually’ A rising star in Maryland’s weightlifting community was one of two people killed in a fiery wreck that shut down I-70 in Frederick County over Memorial Day weekend, officials confirmed. Thomas McGinley, 20, of Frederick, was identified as one of the two people who died on Sunday, May 25, when a box truck was struck and burst into flames along I-70 near Exit 62 in New Market, Maryland State Police said. The crash happened around 4:10 p.m. when the driver of a BMW SUV heading west rear-ended a box truck near Route 75, state police said. The impact sent the box truck over the median and into t…

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DC Man Dies In PG County Hit-Run Days After Being Struck, Police Say DC Man Dies In PG County Hit-Run Days After Being Struck, Police Say
DC Man Dies In PG County Hit-Run Days After Being Struck, Police Say A 25-year-old man has died days after he was struck by a hit-run driver in Maryland, and police are now asking the public to help track down whoever’s responsible. Marquise Maddox, 25, of Washington, DC, died from his injuries on Saturday, June 1, several days after he was hit by a car on an Oxon Hill roadway, police said. Officers were called to the area of eastbound Oxon Hill Road at Livingston Road around 9:50 p.m. on May 28, where they found Maddox lying in the roadway suffering from traumatic injuries, according to the Prince George’s County Police Department. The preliminary investig…

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Masturbating Man Wanted For Indecent Exposure Near Fairfax County Trail: Police Masturbating Man Wanted For Indecent Exposure Near Fairfax County Trail: Police
Masturbating Man Wanted For Indecent Exposure Near Fairfax County Trail: Police Detectives are asking for help tracking down a man who was caught exposing himself near a popular trail in Northern Virginia. Police in Fairfax County are searching for a suspect seen masturbating near a trail off Mount Royal Lane in the Greenbriar area, according to the Fairfax County Police Department. Officers responded around 6:35 p.m. on Aug. 20, 2024, after a woman reported the disturbing behavior along a public path in the 12800 block of Mount Royal Lane, officials said. A canvass was conducted, but the suspect had fled. Detectives with the Major Crimes Bureau launched an investiga…

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News
Hagerstown Man Threatens To ‘Burn Building Down’ — Sets Fire With 14 People Inside: Officials Hagerstown Man Threatens To ‘Burn Building Down’ — Sets Fire With 14 People Inside: Officials
Hagerstown Man Threatens To ‘Burn Building Down’ — Sets Fire With 14 People Inside: Officials A Hagerstown man accused of threatening to “burn the building down” made good on his word — torching a downtown apartment complex with more than a dozen people inside, authorities said. Dameon Davonte Irby, 32, has been arrested and charged in connection to a fire that damaged a Hagerstown apartment building while 14 residents were inside, according to the Maryland State Fire Marshal’s Office. The fire broke out around 2 a.m. on Monday, May 19, at 56 E. Antietam St., when Hagerstown firefighters arrived to find smoke and flames coming from the third floor of the building. Crews encountered…

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Police & Fire
Teen Killed, Two Shot At Maryland House Party — Police Ask Guests To Share Videos Teen Killed, Two Shot At Maryland House Party — Police Ask Guests To Share Videos
Teen Killed, Two Shot At Maryland House Party — Police Ask Guests To Share Videos A 19-year-old Maryland man was fatally shot and two others were hospitalized after gunfire erupted at a house party on the Eastern Shore, authorities announced. Deputies from the Queen Anne’s County Office of the Sheriff responded to a shooting on Centreville Road at around 1:15 a.m. on Sunday, June 1, after multiple reports of gunfire at a residence where a large party was being held. When deputies arrived at the home in the 1500 block of Centreville Road, they found three people suffering from gunshot wounds, officials said. One of the victims, Christopher Parsley, 19, of Centreville, wa…

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DC Educator Asked Girl For Sexual Photos After Meeting At Nearby Groecery Store: FBI DC Educator Asked Girl For Sexual Photos After Meeting At Nearby Groecery Store: FBI
DC Educator Asked Girl For Sexual Photos After Meeting At Nearby Groecery Store: FBI A school employee in DC has been arrested on disturbing child exploitation charges — and the FBI says there may be more victims. District resident Devonne Keith Brown, 56, was arrested on Monday, June 2, by the FBI Washington Field Office’s Child Exploitation and Human Trafficking Task Force, federal officials announced. According to officials, Brown allegedly solicited the production of child sexual abuse material (CSAM) from a young girl in Prince George’s County, after allegedly meeting her in person at a grocery store near her home. Brown was employed at a school in Northeast DC a…

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Mystery Solved: Body Found In Florida In ’93 Was Missing Fairfax Man, Police Say Mystery Solved: Body Found In Florida In ’93 Was Missing Fairfax Man, Police Say
Mystery Solved: Body Found In Florida In ’93 Was Missing Fairfax Man, Police Say A body pulled from the water near a Florida beach more than three decades ago has finally been identified — and it belonged to an 84-year-old man who vanished from his Virginia home the day after Thanksgiving in 1993. He had been known only as “Pinellas County John Doe 1993.” But after 31 years, Clearwater Police announced Monday that the body found floating near the Clearwater Pass bridge has been identified as Edman Eric Gleed, a Fairfax County man who was 84 years old at the time of his disappearance. The breakthrough came thanks to the Clearwater Police Department, the Pinellas County M…

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Lifestyle
‘Squid Game’ Final Season Trailer Drops: Gi-Hun Prepares For One Last Bloody Battle ‘Squid Game’ Final Season Trailer Drops: Gi-Hun Prepares For One Last Bloody Battle
‘Squid Game’ Final Season Trailer Drops: Gi-Hun Prepares For One Last Bloody Battle All good games must come to an end.  Netflix just dropped the official trailer for the third and final season of "Squid Game," and it’s more ruthless, twisted, and high-stakes than ever — with a premiere date locked for Friday, June 27. Debuting during Netflix’s Tudum 2025: The Live Event, the explosive trailer teases a brutal, no-holds-barred finale where Gi-hun (Lee Jung-jae) must face not only deadly new games, but the ghosts of a failed rebellion, dead allies, and a growing sense of despair.  And yes — Young-hee, the terrifying Red Light, Green Light doll, is back. “He is in…

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DUI Driver Who Had Wife Blow Into Interlock Gets Max Sentence In Crash That Killed MD Woman DUI Driver Who Had Wife Blow Into Interlock Gets Max Sentence In Crash That Killed MD Woman
DUI Driver Who Had Wife Blow Into Interlock Gets Max Sentence In Crash That Killed MD Woman A Maryland man on probation for a DUI conviction got drunk, had his wife blow into his court-ordered interlock system — and hours later, killed an 80-year-old woman in a head-on crash.  Now they're going to prison for it. Jared Anzelc, who had been ordered by the court to stay sober after a prior DUI, was sentenced to the maximum 15 years in prison for negligent manslaughter by motor vehicle, prosecutors in Harford County announced. The deadly crash happened on May 7, 2023, after Anzelc spent several hours drinking at the bar at Mountain Branch Golf Club, despite being on probation fo…

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