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Authorities Issue Alert For 19-Year-Old Fugitive

Update (3/24): The Middlesex Prosecutor’s Office has apprehended 19-year-old Calvin Morton of New Brunswick.

NEW BRUNSWICK, NJ—The Middlesex County Prosecutor’s Office (MCPO) Fugitive Unit has issued a an alert for fugitive Calvin Morton, age 19.

The alert, like most Middlesex County Crime Stoppers messages, indicates that prosecutors are willing to extradite the fugitive from any state in the country.

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28-Year-Old Rutgers Grad Student Passes Away

NEW BRUNSWICK, NJ—Rutgers University sufferred another student death, this time the victim was an accomplished violinist who was studying music as a graduate student.

The passing of Caroline Yoshimoto, 28, a doctoral student at the Mason Gross School of Arts, marks at least the tenth student death since September.

Richard L. Edwards Chancellor of Rutgers-New Brunswick said that she unexpectedly died on Thursday February 26 and that her cause of death was not stated.

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One of Two Robbery Suspects Arrested in X-Box Sale Gone Wrong

NEW BRUNSWICK, NJ—Police announced the arrest of Jerome Powell, a 21-year-old man from Camden, who was identified as one of two suspects in a  February 2 robbery at 55 Morrell Street, an off-campus apartment complex.

According to a New Brunswick Police Department (NBPD) news release, Powell went to Morrell Street with the intent to purchase an X-Box from the resident who was attempting to sell it.

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City Reviewing Bids to Address Flooding Problem on Joyce Kilmer Avenue

NEW BRUNSWICK, NJ—City officials are preparing to select a company to to replace the sewer infrastructure on Joyce Kilmer Avenue near the intersection of Charles Street.

The flooding has been a persistent problem since at least 2008, when the county and city re-designed a culvert over a stream at that intersection.

"Whatever they did to Joyce Kilmer in the last procedure they performed… has made the problem worse," Danielle Moore told the City Council in 2012.