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Jon Craig

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Pleasantville native Jon Craig is special editor for the Westchester, Putnam, Rockland, Orange and Dutchess Daily Voice sites. He is also the primary reporter for Daily Voice Plus Politics in Westchester and Fairfield.

Jon graduated from Cornell University and received his master's degree in journalism from Northwestern University. Across a 35-year career, he's worked as a reporter for daily newspapers in Chicago, New York, Ohio & Washington, D.C and as managing editor for weekly newspapers in Rye, White Plains and Harrison.

Jon also writes periodically for the Cornell Chronicle.

Career Highlights:

  • Covered Metro-North train wreck that killed a motorist and five commuters, 2015
  • Researched state investigative project for PublicIntegrity.org, 2011-12
  • National MADD award for database analysis of repeat drunk drivers in Ohio, 2008.
  • Henry F. Guggenheim Fellow, John Jay College of Criminal Justice, 2010.
  • Sentenced to jail for protecting confidential sources (won on appeal), 1999.
  • Broke 30th anniversary story about Kent State shootings — using FBI records, resurrecting theory a student informant triggered fatal National Guard volley, May 2000.
  • Covered Ground Zero after Sept. 11, 2001, terrorism attacks.
  • Uncovered voting problems before & during presidential recount in Ohio, 2004.
  • Witnessed botched Death Row execution of Romell Broom in 2009, one of more than a dozen I covered; Wrote about three inmates whose death sentences were commuted to life without parole.
  • Won IRE, SDX and multiple national & state awards for series led by Erik Kriss investigating New York General Assembly. 1994.
  • Guest lecturer at universities in NY & Ohio. Taught Syracuse high school journalism class.
  • Co-authored IRE-award winning series on illegal restraints/beatings at juvenile detention centers. Gov. Mario Cuomo had NY inspector general confirm what Hart Seely and I found at Division for Youth & fired top directors, 1993.
  • Survived Air Force Kool School training at North Pole, 1996.
  • Covered Persian Gulf wars, including 2002 bomb missions from Turkey and stateside Army/Air Guard training. 1991.
  • Supervised overnight coverage of Pan Am Flight 103 after Libyan bomb killed 35 Syracuse University students over Lockerbie, Scotland, 1988.
  • Covered aftermath of John F. Kennedy Jr.'s fatal plane crash from Cape Cod, 1999.
  • Greeted Kurt Vonnegut Jr. as Cornell Sun sports editor during daily's 100th anniversary dinner in May 1980. 

Jon Craig's Contributions

News
Putnam's Unemployment Rate Among Lowest Statewide Putnam's Unemployment Rate Among Lowest Statewide
Putnam's Unemployment Rate Among Lowest Statewide Preliminary jobless rates for June found fewer people were unemployed last month in Putnam County, the Hudson Valley and entire state compared to a year ago, the New York State Labor Department said on Tuesday. Last month's unemployment rates for Putnam (3.7 percent), Rockland (3.9 percent) and Westchester (3.8 percent) were among the lowest of any counties in New York state and jobless numbers in all three counties had fallen since June 2015. Dutchess County's unemployment rate also fell slightly in the year ending last month at 4 percent.  Unemploment in the Dutchess-Putnam region was rep…

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Rockland's Unemployment Rate Among Lowest Statewide Rockland's Unemployment Rate Among Lowest Statewide
Rockland's Unemployment Rate Among Lowest Statewide Preliminary jobless rates for June found fewer people were unemployed last month in Rockland County, the Hudson Valley and entire state compared to a year ago, the New York State Labor Department said on Tuesday. Last month's unemployment rates for Rockland (3.9 percent), Westchester (3.8 percent) and Putnam (3.7 percent) were among the lowest of any counties in New York state and jobless numbers in all three counties had fallen since June 2015. Dutchess County's unemployment rate also fell slightly in the year ending last month at 4 percent.  As a region, the three counties of Orange-Rockl…

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Dutchess Unemployment Rate Falls From Last Year Dutchess Unemployment Rate Falls From Last Year
Dutchess Unemployment Rate Falls From Last Year Preliminary jobless rates for June found fewer people were unemployed last month in Dutchess County, the Hudson Valley and entire state compared to a year ago, the New York State Labor Department said on Tuesday. Dutchess County's unemployment rate fell slightly between June 20115 and last month when it was 4 percent -- although the jobless rate was up slightly from rose slightly from May.  Unemploment in the Dutchess-Putnam region was reported at 3.9 percent last month compared to 4.6 percent in June 2015. In the Kingston region, the unemployment rate fell from 4.9 percent a year ago to 4…

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Politics
Corruption Probe Expands To Westchester County Exec's Office Corruption Probe Expands To Westchester County Exec's Office
Corruption Probe Expands To Westchester County Exec's Office WHITE PLAINS, N.Y. -- Westchester County Executive Rob Astorino's office has been subpoenaed as part of a widening probe of corruption by the U.S. Attorney's Office. Astorino, a Republican who challenged Democratic Gov. Andrew Cuomo for governor in 2014, said on a public radio broadcast Monday that the county has been cooperating with U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara's requests for documents and other information. The New York Post was first to report that Bharara’s office expanded a corruption probe into Westchester, focusing on two business men: Jona Rechnitz and Jeremy Reichberg. Bharara issu…

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Police & Fire
Police Lift Vehicle Off Of Man In Mamaroneck Police Lift Vehicle Off Of Man In Mamaroneck
Police Lift Vehicle Off Of Man In Mamaroneck MAMARONECK, N.Y. -- Village of Mamaroneck police were able to free a man early Monday whose leg got pinned underneath his vehicle. Sgt. Sandra DiRuzza, a village police department spokeswoman, said that at about 3:15 a.m. Monday Mamaroneck patrol officers responded to Madison Street near the 600 block of Mamaroneck Avenue on. Police found a 28-year-old male from the Village of Mamaroneck was stuck beneath the vehicle.  An earlier report said the man had been trying to change a flat tire when the accident occurred.  Police officers were able to lift the vehicle to free the injured man who w…

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Police & Fire
Police Respond To Armed Robbery In Port Chester Police Respond To Armed Robbery In Port Chester
Police Respond To Armed Robbery In Port Chester PORT CHESTER, N.Y. -- Area police agencies were on the alert overnight for an armed robber who stole an undisclosed amount of cash from a male.  The robbery took place shortly before 6 p.m. at Glen Avenue and Leicester Street in the Village of Port Chester, police confirmed.  The suspect reportedly fled in a black vehicle with Connecticut license plates. Greenwich, Conn., police also were on alert in the search for the fleeing robbery suspect. Return to Daily Voice for updates.

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Rye Police Called To Help Capture Fugitive Rye Police Called To Help Capture Fugitive
Rye Police Called To Help Capture Fugitive RYE, N.Y. -- Without Dog and Beth or another reality-TV bounty hunter nearby, a local bail bondsman called upon the Rye Police Department to help track down a city fugitive this week. "This was really a non-event for us," Lt. Scott Craig, a Rye police spokesman explained on Thursday. "We just assisted a bail bondsman who was looking for an individual who at one time lived on Maple Avenue. It was not an arrest nor was the original arrest from our jurisdiction. The party they were inquiring about no longer lives in the area." No word yet on what the fugitive was charged wi…

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Police & Fire
Local Firefighters, Police Respond After Car Crashes Into Building Local Firefighters, Police Respond After Car Crashes Into Building
Local Firefighters, Police Respond After Car Crashes Into Building LARCHMONT, N.Y., -- A car crashed into a building on Palmer Avenue on Wednesday, prompting a response by local volunteer firefighters, according to Village of Larchmont police. Firefighters found a car smoking from its hood. The driver was not trapped and did not request medical treatment at the accident scene, police said.  No one else was hurt when the car inexplicably crashed at 1833 Palmer Ave., police said. The 4:30 p.m. emergency call caused traffic delays as firefighters made sure the car did not spill gas or become engulfed in flames before it could be towed away.

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Police & Fire
Public Pool Remains Closed After Rescue Of Child Whose Finger Got Stuck Public Pool Remains Closed After Rescue Of Child Whose Finger Got Stuck
Public Pool Remains Closed After Rescue Of Child Whose Finger Got Stuck This story has been updated. A child's finger got caught in a water jet at the Mount Pleasant Town Pool, but he was freed during a four-hour rescue effort. The pool remained closed on Thursday for repairs.  The 6-year-old boy was safely transported to an area hospital about 9:30 p.m. on Wednesday, police said in a news release. The 5:20 p.m. accident prompted the pool's closure to the public at 125 Lozza Drive. Volunteers from the Valhalla Fire Department and Valhalla Ambulance Corps were assisted by a Westchester County Technical Rescue crew and paramedics from Westchester Emergency Medi…

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Schools
Rye Appoints Interim Superintendent Monahan After Alvarez Steps Down Rye Appoints Interim Superintendent Monahan After Alvarez Steps Down
Rye Appoints Interim Superintendent Monahan After Alvarez Steps Down This story has been updated. RYE, N.Y. -- After the abrupt, unexpected resignation of Rye Superintendent of Schools Frank Alvarez on Tuesday, Rye City School District's Board of Education appointed an interim superintendent effective July 31. According to a press statement released after Tuesday night's Rye school board meeting, Brian D. Monahan will be the school district's new interim superintendent.  Sarah Derman, a spokeswoman for Rye City School District, said there was no school board vote Tuesday on Alvarez' resignation. He'll complete the fourth year on his five-year contract on Ju…

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