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Charged Wal-Mart trucker to appear in court Wednesday By Charles W. Kim, Packet Media Group NEW BRUNSWICK — Former Saturday Night Live star and comedian Tracy Morgan remained in critical condition Monday while the truck driver charged with causing Saturday’s deadly New Jersey Turnpike crash prepares to appear in court on Wednesday. In a statement…

Photo from Tracy Morgan’s Twitter account.

Staff photo by Charles W. Kim. Hundreds of people lined Main Street in Cranbury Monday to see the annual Memorial Day Parade.

Town honors veterans’ By Jenine Clancy, Special Writer MONROE — The trumpets blared from members of the Monroe Township High School Marching Band and American flags were waved high for fallen veterans at the Monroe Township Municipal Complex’s memorial on Monday. Veterans from the American Legion Post 128 in Jamesburg and Post 522 in Monroe,…

Jenine Clancy photo. Surviving veterans lay a wreath at the Monroe Township Me´morial on Monday to remember their fallen comrades in arms.

Kenneth Hamilton

Cooperation with law enforcement key in handling situation By Jenine Clancy, Special Writer MONROE — When an escaped prisoner fled from the Jamesburg Police Department on May 15 schools Superintendent Kenneth Hamilton made sure he was going to keep his students safe. "When we got notice from police, it was within 10 minutes we got…

Amy Batista photo. Police gather in Thompson Park at the scene where they captured a Jamesburg prisoner who escaped Jamesburg Police custody for about two hours Wednesday. The escape caused several schools to be placed on lockdown.

Borough man fled police after morning arrest By Charles W. Kim, Managing Editor MONROE — Police recaptured an escaped prisoner from the Jamesburg Police Department that caused the a lockdown at all of the district’s schools, according to officials. Naser A. Zucker, 19, of Jamesbourg was apprehended at Thompson Park in Monroe Township by members…