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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.

Zak Failla's Contributions

Obituaries

Son Killed, Grandson Shot: Virginia Mom Reeling After Spotsylvania Mass Shooting A Virginia mother of five is living every parent’s worst nightmare. One of her sons, Alonzo Goffney, is dead. Another — the grandson she helped raise — suffered serious injuries in one of several major incidents reported in Spotsylvania this week. The Spotsylvania County community continues to mourn after Tuesday’s mass shooting on Olde Greenwich Circle that left three young men dead and three others hospitalized. Now, a new GoFundMe is shining a heartbreaking light on the family left behind. “My mother of five lost her youngest son, who was only 18, to gun violence,” wrote Dam…

by Zak Failla

04/09/2025

Traffic

Frontier Flight Deplaned At Dulles Airport For Emergency Security Search (Developing) A Frontier Airlines flight was met by emergency responders on the tarmac at Dulles International Airport after a runway scare on Wednesday, April 9, authorities said. The aircraft touched down on Runway 19R around 2:30 p.m. and was quickly surrounded by Airports Authority police, fire crews, and operations personnel, according to airport officials. “Out of an abundance of caution, passengers were offloaded by mobile lounge,” Dulles Airport said in an update shortly after 4 p.m. on Wednesday. Officials did not immediately confirm what triggered the response, but noted that all other flights…

by Zak Failla

04/09/2025

Traffic

Small Plane Makes Emergency Landing In Virginia Field After Engine Issue: VSP (Updated) First responders were called to a reported small plane crash in Virginia late on Wednesday afternoon. Emergency crews responded to a plane crash in the area of Chancellor Road and Scarlet Oak Road shortly after 3 p.m. on April 9 to investigate the crash, the Spotsylvania County Sheriff's Office confirmed. The initial call came in at approximately 3:08 p.m. after the plane took off from Leesburg en route to Hampton Roads, officials said. Virginia State Police investigators have been called in to probe the incident and motorists have been advised to avoid the area. According to state police…

by Zak Failla

04/09/2025

News

'Kick Axe' Shooting In DMV Leaves NFL Prospect Paralyzed; Gunman Convicted: DOJ A District man will spend decades behind bars for shooting a former NFL prospect in the back outside a bar in DC, paralyzing him for life and derailing his career. Roger Lee Jones, 42, was found guilty by a Superior Court jury on Monday, April 7, of assault with intent to kill while armed and several other offenses in connection to a January 2022 shooting in Northeast DC. Shortly after midnight on Jan. 22, 2022, officers from the Metropolitan Police Department were called to Kick Axe Throw Social in Northeast, according to federal officials. Jones — who was out that night with his ex-girlf…

by Zak Failla

04/09/2025

Police & Fire

Tattooed Fugitive Barricades In Virginia Home, Surrenders After Standoff: Police A wanted man in Virginia is behind bars after sparking a two-day manhunt in Front Royal that ended with a barricade situation and multi-agency response, authorities announced on Wednesday, April 9. Officers with the Front Royal Police Department said they first made contact with 34-year-old Richmond resident William Christopher Mosley Jr. on Monday, April 7, after receiving a report that he was sitting in a vehicle at a residence on the 1600 block of North Royal Avenue. Mosley reportedly took off on foot as officers approached, kicking off a brief pursuit. A coordinated search was la…

by Zak Failla

04/09/2025

News

Maryland Man Barricaded In Motel, Set $750K Fire In DMV, Prosecutors Say A violent motel room rampage that ended in flames and sent guests fleeing has landed a Maryland man behind bars — possibly for decades. Anthony Cleaver Mason, 65, was convicted of assault, arson, and reckless endangerment after a fire he started in a St. Mary's County motel tore through the building and caused hundreds of thousands in damage, officials announced. Deputies with the St. Mary’s County Sheriff’s Office responded to the Super Eight motel on Three Notch Road in California on June 3, 2024 to investigate multiple reports of a disturbance. When they arrived, they found Mason …

by Zak Failla

04/09/2025

Police & Fire

Illegal Immigrant Released In Virginia After Sex Abuse Conviction Re-Arrested: ICE A Guatemalan national convicted of having sex with a child was released by a Virginia jail despite an ICE detainer — but now he's back in federal custody after a major multi-agency takedown, authorities said. Ander Cortez-Mendez, 21, was arrested on Wednesday, April 2 in Falls Church, by US Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers working with ATF, the DEA, and the Diplomatic Security Service, ICE officials announced. Cortez-Mendez, who is in the country illegally, had previously been convicted in Fairfax County Circuit Court of consensual sexual intercourse with a child. He was …

by Zak Failla

04/09/2025

Police & Fire

Fort Washington House Fire Injures Six Firefighters; Eighth Blaze In 24 Hours (Developing) Six firefighters were hurt battling a fast-moving blaze that tore through a Fort Washington home Wednesday morning, Prince George’s County officials said. Crews responded around 10:19 a.m. on April 9 to the 9200 block of Fort Foote Road, where heavy flames were shooting from both floors of a two-story single-family house, according to the Prince George’s County Fire/EMS Department. The fire was knocked down, but not before six PGFD members were injured and taken to the hospital for evaluation. The Prince George's County Fire Department has been busy in the past 24 hours. Prin…

by Zak Failla

04/09/2025

Politics

US Senators Demand Return Of Wrongfully Deported Maryland Dad From El Salvador Prison A Maryland father wrongly deported to a notorious mega-prison in El Salvador has become the focus of a growing political firestorm, with more than two dozen US senators now demanding that the Trump administration bring him home. Kilmar Abrego Garcia, who has lived in the US since 2011, was detained by ICE after being stopped in March 2025 while picking up his son from his grandmother's home, "inaccurately telling him that his protected status had changed," according to court documents. Federal officials later admitted their error after Abrego Garcia was mistakenly deported to El Salvador's …

by Zak Failla

04/09/2025

Police & Fire

Botched Gun Sale Sparked Mass Shooting In Virginia That Left 3 Dead: Sheriff Four suspects — including three minors — have been charged in the deadly Spotsylvania County shooting that left three people dead and three others hospitalized, authorities announced. The shooting happened around 5:30 p.m. Tuesday, April 8, in the area of Olde Greenwich Circle, according to Major Elizabeth Scott of the Spotsylvania County Sheriff’s Office. Deputies arrived to find multiple people shot. Three men — 18-year-olds Chase Feaster and Alonzo Goffney, both of Spotsylvania, and a 20-year-old man whose identity has not yet been confirmed — were pronounced dead at the scene. Three oth…

by Zak Failla

04/09/2025

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