Zak Failla

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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.

Zak Failla's Contributions

National Interest
SCOTUS Crushes Virginia Democrats’ Congressional Map Push In Stunning One-Sentence Order SCOTUS Crushes Virginia Democrats’ Congressional Map Push In Stunning One-Sentence Order SCOTUS Crushes Virginia Democrats’ Congressional Map Push In Stunning One-Sentence Order
SCOTUS Crushes Virginia Democrats’ Congressional Map Push In Stunning One-Sentence Order Virginia Democrats’ bid to salvage congressional maps they hoped could reshape the House battlefield ahead of the midterms came crashing down on Friday in a brutally short order from the US Supreme Court. “The application for stay presented to The Chief Justice and by him referred to the Court is denied.” That was the entire ruling. One sentence from the nation’s highest court ended weeks of escalating legal warfare over Virginia’s controversial redistricting overhaul — and triggered an immediate political firestorm from Democratic leaders who accused the courts of erasing the will of mill…

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by Zak Failla
Columbia, MD
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Murder-Suicide Investigation Unfolds Across Baltimore, Howard Counties After Shooting: Police Murder-Suicide Investigation Unfolds Across Baltimore, Howard Counties After Shooting: Police Murder-Suicide Investigation Unfolds Across Baltimore, Howard Counties After Shooting: Police
Murder-Suicide Investigation Unfolds Across Baltimore, Howard Counties After Shooting: Police A 21-year-old woman was found shot to death inside a Baltimore County home as investigators unraveled what appears to be a murder-suicide investigation stretching into neighboring Howard County. Baltimore County Police identified the victim Friday as Kaylie Logston, one day after officers discovered her dead inside a home on Hillside Road in Catonsville. Police were called to the home around 3 p.m. Thursday, May 14, for reports of a shooting. When officers entered the residence, they found Logston dead from an apparent gunshot wound. As homicide detectives worked the scene in Baltimore Co…

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North Bethesda, MD
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Gunman Opens Fire Outside Bethesda Marriott, Killing Hotel Guest In Broad Daylight: Police Gunman Opens Fire Outside Bethesda Marriott, Killing Hotel Guest In Broad Daylight: Police Gunman Opens Fire Outside Bethesda Marriott, Killing Hotel Guest In Broad Daylight: Police
Gunman Opens Fire Outside Bethesda Marriott, Killing Hotel Guest In Broad Daylight: Police A man was gunned down outside a Maryland hotel in broad daylight Thursday morning before the shooter vanished, sparking a major homicide investigation. Police were called to the Bethesda North Marriott Hotel and Conference Center on Marinelli Road around 11:37 a.m. Thursday, May 14, after reports of a shooting in the parking lot, according to Montgomery County police. Responding officers found 41-year-old Quentin Tyrone Davis suffering from an apparent gunshot wound outside the North Bethesda hotel. Davis, who police say was a guest at the hotel and had no known address, died at the scene …

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Burtonsville, MD
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Driver Who Ignored Horns, Headlights Before Deadly Wrong-Way Burtonsville Crash Learns Fate Driver Who Ignored Horns, Headlights Before Deadly Wrong-Way Burtonsville Crash Learns Fate Driver Who Ignored Horns, Headlights Before Deadly Wrong-Way Burtonsville Crash Learns Fate
Driver Who Ignored Horns, Headlights Before Deadly Wrong-Way Burtonsville Crash Learns Fate One driver tried flashing his headlights. Another driver leaned on the horn. It still wasn’t enough to stop Jose Badell-Uzcategui before prosecutors say he barreled the wrong way down a Maryland roadway, drunk at nearly 70 mph, and killed 30-year-old Jazz Andrew Taylor in a devastating head-on crash. Now, nearly a year after the deadly collision in Burtonsville, the Washington, DC man responsible is heading to prison. Badell-Uzcategui, 30, was sentenced in Montgomery County Circuit Court to 10 years in prison, suspending all but seven years, after he pleaded guilty earlier this year t…

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Elkton, MD
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New Jersey Man Used Fireworks, Fuel To Spark $10M Elktkon Walmart Blaze: Fire Marshal New Jersey Man Used Fireworks, Fuel To Spark $10M Elktkon Walmart Blaze: Fire Marshal New Jersey Man Used Fireworks, Fuel To Spark $10M Elktkon Walmart Blaze: Fire Marshal
New Jersey Man Used Fireworks, Fuel To Spark $10M Elktkon Walmart Blaze: Fire Marshal A New Jersey firebug who traveled hundreds of miles to Maryland is facing arson charges after allegedly using fireworks to torch a Walmart during a jewelry heist, officials say. Anthony Rhodes, 36, of Berlin, New Jersey, was arrested in his hometown after he was identified by deputy state fire marshals as the suspect who went to great lengths to shoplift in Cecil County. Crews from the Singerly Fire Company were called shortly after 7 p.m. on Wednesday, April 29, to the store in the 1000 block of E. Pulaski Highway, where employees and customers were forced to evacuate. The Office o…

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by Zak Failla
Columbia, MD
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Brace For Overnight I-95 Lane Closures Near Baltimore-HoCo Line: Here's When Brace For Overnight I-95 Lane Closures Near Baltimore-HoCo Line: Here's When Brace For Overnight I-95 Lane Closures Near Baltimore-HoCo Line: Here's When
Brace For Overnight I-95 Lane Closures Near Baltimore-HoCo Line: Here's When Drivers heading through the Baltimore-Howard County line on I-95 are about to lose some lanes overnight. The Maryland State Highway Administration announced crews will begin repairs Sunday night on the I-95 bridges over the Patapsco River, bringing overnight lane closures and potential backups along one of the region’s busiest stretches of highway. The work zone sits between I-195 (Metropolitan Boulevard) and the I-95/I-895 split. Construction is scheduled to begin Sunday night, May 17, and continue through the end of May, weather permitting. Officials say the project is aimed at improvin…

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by Zak Failla
Towson, MD
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Blue Shoes, Gold Rifle Help Convict Baltimore Gunman In Deadly Triple Shooting Blue Shoes, Gold Rifle Help Convict Baltimore Gunman In Deadly Triple Shooting Blue Shoes, Gold Rifle Help Convict Baltimore Gunman In Deadly Triple Shooting
Blue Shoes, Gold Rifle Help Convict Baltimore Gunman In Deadly Triple Shooting A pair of bright blue sneakers and a gold spray-painted assault-style rifle helped bring down a Baltimore gunman accused of unleashing chaos outside a shopping center in a deadly 2019 ambush. Baltimore City resident Diamante Teal, 29, was convicted in connection with the murder of a 16-year-old boy and the shootings of two innocent bystanders during a brazen ambush outside a shopping center at The Alameda, Maryland Attorney General Anthony Brown announced. The six-day trial painted a violent picture of a daytime ambush carried out with military-style firepower in the middle of a busy shoppi…

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by Zak Failla
Stafford, VA
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Baby Found Alone Near Stafford Park Sparks Desperate Search For Mother Baby Found Alone Near Stafford Park Sparks Desperate Search For Mother Baby Found Alone Near Stafford Park Sparks Desperate Search For Mother
Baby Found Alone Near Stafford Park Sparks Desperate Search For Mother Someone found a baby alone near a Virginia park on Tuesday afternoon — and within hours, deputies flooded the neighborhood searching for the child’s mother. The unsettling discovery near Embrey Mill Park sparked a major police response around Coriander Lane and Embrey Mill Road on Tuesday, May 12, according to the Stafford County Sheriff’s Office. By early evening, patrol units crowded the area as investigators worked to figure out how the infant ended up there — and whether the mother could be hurt or in danger herself. The child was found safe. “We are grateful to report the baby is saf…

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Joppatowne, MD
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Man Returns From Evening Walk To Find Joppa Home Engulfed In Massive Flames Man Returns From Evening Walk To Find Joppa Home Engulfed In Massive Flames Man Returns From Evening Walk To Find Joppa Home Engulfed In Massive Flames
Man Returns From Evening Walk To Find Joppa Home Engulfed In Massive Flames Dinner was done. The evening walk had already started. Then came the smoke. A Harford County homeowner returned from an evening walk Tuesday night to find flames ripping through his Joppa home in a devastating fire investigators believe may have started with an air fryer. The massive blaze broke out shortly before 8 p.m. Tuesday, May 12, at a home on Anchor Drive in Joppa, according to the Maryland State Fire Marshal’s Office. By the time the homeowner made it back, smoke was pouring from the eaves of the two-story house. Investigators say the man opened the front door but was immedi…

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Annapolis, MD
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Maryland Monitoring 2 Residents After Potential Exposure To Rare Hantavirus: Health Department Maryland Monitoring 2 Residents After Potential Exposure To Rare Hantavirus: Health Department Maryland Monitoring 2 Residents After Potential Exposure To Rare Hantavirus: Health Department
Maryland Monitoring 2 Residents After Potential Exposure To Rare Hantavirus: Health Department Two Maryland residents are being monitored after possible exposure to a rare virus connected to a cruise ship passenger, state health officials announced Tuesday. The Maryland Department of Health said the residents may have been exposed to hantavirus during an international flight that briefly included a passenger from the M/V Hondius cruise ship. The exposure did not happen in Maryland. And the two Maryland residents were not passengers aboard the cruise ship itself, according to health officials. State health leaders stressed the overall risk to the public remains “very low.” Still, t…

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