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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

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Poughkeepsie Police Warn To Check Candy After Pill Found In Chocolate Bar Poughkeepsie Police Warn To Check Candy After Pill Found In Chocolate Bar
Poughkeepsie Police Warn To Check Candy After Pill Found In Chocolate Bar POUGHKEEPSIE, N.Y. -- Police recommend checking Halloween candy after a parent found a pink pill inside a Snickers bar during a Saturday event at Poughkeepsie Galleria. Town of Poughkeepsie Police Department said that a parent notified them about 3:40 p.m. on Saturday that her daughter was trick or treating during the Mall-O-Ween event at the Galleria off of Route 9. Joann Turner of Wappingers Falls said her 13-year-old daughter found a Snickers bar wrapper had been opened at both ends.. Turner noticed the candy bar was sliced and when she pulled it apart, she found a pink pill inside with…

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Politics
Dutchess County Legislature Will See Many New Faces Dutchess County Legislature Will See Many New Faces
Dutchess County Legislature Will See Many New Faces POUGHKEEPSIE, N.Y. -- The 25-member Dutchess County Legislature is expected to seat at least seven new members in January due to incumbents stepping aside or losing September primary runoffs. Election Day is Tuesday, Nov. 3. County legislators serve two-year terms and are paid $15,450 annually. Five sitting legislators are not seeking re-election, while two other incumbents failed to secure major party ballot lines. Republicans currently control a voting majority, with 15 seats to the Democrats' eight legislative seats. There is one Conservative Party legislator, Robert Weiss of Hopewell …

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Meet Assistant Managing Editor, Jon Craig Meet Assistant Managing Editor, Jon Craig
Meet Assistant Managing Editor, Jon Craig DUTCHESS COUNTY, N.Y. -- Jon Craig is assistant managing editor for Daily Voice and its three sites in Dutchess County, which launched Monday. Craig is a graduate of Cornell University, Northwestern University and Pleasantville High School. As a teenager, he worked on farms in Billings, N.Y., and Chappaqua. He enjoys photography, hiking, horseback riding and repairing cars. Craig has won national awards from Investigative Reporters & Editors (IRE), the Society of Professional Journalists (Sigma Delta Chi), the Association for Women in Communications, Children's Express and Mothers Agai…

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Police Warn Parents To Check Candy, Pill Found In Chocolate Bar From Mall Police Warn Parents To Check Candy, Pill Found In Chocolate Bar From Mall
Police Warn Parents To Check Candy, Pill Found In Chocolate Bar From Mall POUGHKEEPSIE, N.Y. -- Police recommend checking Halloween candy after a parent found a pink pill inside a Snickers bar during a Saturday event at Poughkeepsie Galleria. Town of Poughkeepsie Police Department, a parent notified them about 3:40 p.m. on Saturday that her daughter was trick or treating during the Mall-O-Ween event at the Galleria off of Route 9. Joann Turner of Wappingers Falls said her 13-year-old daughter found a Snickers bar wrapper had been opened on both ends. Turner noticed the candy bar was sliced and when she pulled it apart, she found a pink pill inside with the numbe…

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Proposed Dutchess County Budget Cuts Property Tax, Restores Family Services Proposed Dutchess County Budget Cuts Property Tax, Restores Family Services
Proposed Dutchess County Budget Cuts Property Tax, Restores Family Services POUGHKEEPSIE, N.Y. -- Dutchess County Executive Marc Molinaro, for a second straight year, proposed cutting the property tax levy without reducing services or programs. Molinaro detailed his tentative 2016 county budget of $456 million on Wednesday during a speech at Marist College, while noting county government has its smallest workforce in 32 years.  Next year's budget plan reduces the county property tax levy by more than $1 million and seeks to reduce the property tax rate for the first time in eight years -- by 1.6 percent. If adopted by the Republican-controlled Dutchess County Legi…

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Police & Fire
Three Hospitalized, Including 3-Year-Old, After Staatsburg House Fire Three Hospitalized, Including 3-Year-Old, After Staatsburg House Fire
Three Hospitalized, Including 3-Year-Old, After Staatsburg House Fire STAATSBURG, N.Y. -- A two-alarm house fire in Staatsburg sent three people to Dutchess County hospitals on Saturday, fire officials said. A 3-year-old child was taken to MidHudson Regional Hospital of Westchester Medical Center and two elderly residents were taken to Northern Dutchess Hospital after a fire broke out shortly after noon at 7 South Cross Road, according to The Poughkeepsie Journal. Staatsburg Fire Chief Keith Varley told The Journal that the fire started on the second floor of the multi-family dwelling and spread to the roof.  Firefighters from Staatsburg and Hyde Park brough…

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New Tappan Zee Bridge Lands Federal Bus Transit Money New Tappan Zee Bridge Lands Federal Bus Transit Money
New Tappan Zee Bridge Lands Federal Bus Transit Money This story has been updated TARRYTOWN, N.Y. -- The U.S. Department of Transportation has awarded $10 million in federal aid to improve bus rapid transit over the new Tappan Zee Bridge, officials announced on Monday. Spokesmen for U.S. Rep. Nita Lowey, D-Westchester/Rockland, Gov. Andrew Cuomo and U.S. Sens. Kirsten Gillibrand and Charles Schumer, D-N.Y., said that the federal DOT granted the state Department of Transportation money for new bus stations, ramp signals and other high-tech upgrades along Interstate 287 between Suffern and White Plains to provide more reliable bus service via Ta…

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Ex-Westchester Coach Is Charged In College Grade-Fixing Scheme Ex-Westchester Coach Is Charged In College Grade-Fixing Scheme
Ex-Westchester Coach Is Charged In College Grade-Fixing Scheme This story has been updated. WHITE PLAINS, N.Y. -- Tyrone Mushatt, former head basketball coach at Westchester Community College, was arrested Thursday on felony charges related to a "grade-fixing scheme,'' according to Westchester County District Attorney Janet DiFiore. DiFiore and State Inspector General Catherine Leahy Scott announced that Mushatt, 42, of 3563 Boller Ave. in the Bronx, was arraigned in Town of Mount Pleasant Court on a felony complaint charging him with nine counts of criminal possession of a forged instrument. He faces up to seven years in state prison on each felo…

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Politics
Pre-Election Rancor, Rhetoric Ramp Up In Mamaroneck Pre-Election Rancor, Rhetoric Ramp Up In Mamaroneck
Pre-Election Rancor, Rhetoric Ramp Up In Mamaroneck MAMARONECK, N.Y. -- As Election Day approaches, campaigns are heating up in the Village of Mamaroneck. Democrats seeking to unseat incumbent Mayor Norman Rosenblum and Deputy Mayor Louis Santaro, both Republicans, released a video from village Board of Trustee meetings showing the three-term mayor clashing with Democratic Trustee Ilissa Miller, and earlier with a former school board president.  The campaign video -- titled "Is Chivalry Dead In the Village of Mamaroneck?'' -- replays public meeting footage from Larchmont-Mamaroneck Community Television. The LMC-TV clips capture Rosenblu…

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Schools
Harrison High Student Returns From South Korea Harrison High Student Returns From South Korea
Harrison High Student Returns From South Korea HARRISON, N.Y. -- Harrison High School sophomore Mark Rigano had a unique front row view of history on a recent visit to South Korea. Rigano, a member of the Young Marines of Westchester for the past four years and who holds the rank of sergeant, was selected by the unit commander, Lucian Caldara, to make this historic trip across the world. Caldara served in the Marine Corps and was stationed in South Korea. “My visit to South Korea was the greatest experience of my young life,” Rigano said. “It was an incredible opportunity and invaluable experience to be able to immerse myself in the cul…

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