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• NEW BRUNSWICK, N.J. (AP) -- Accident investigators are looking into what role a truck driver's commute played in the fatal New Jersey Turnpike crash that also injured comedian Tracy Morgan.
• Wal-Mart driver Kevin Roper, who pleaded not guilty to death by auto and assault by auto charges on Wednesday, lived in Georgia, but his job was based in Delaware, said National Transportation Safety Board spokeswoman Kelly Nantel.
• A criminal complaint alleges that the 35-year-old Roper, of Jonesboro, Georgia, hadn't slept for more than 24 hours before the accident when he allegedly swerved to avoid slowed traffic on the turnpike and plowed into Morgan's limo early Saturday.
• Wal-Mart has not explained what Roper's driving route was. The company has said it believes he was in compliance with federal safety regulations.
• Roper's bail was kept at $50,000. Roper and his attorney, David Glassman, refused to answer reporters' questions after the hearing about whether Roper was the author of tweets from a Twitter account bearing his name and featuring his picture and calling reports of his not having slept for 24 hours before the accident "complete BS!"
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• MOSCOW (AP) -- The secretary-general of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe is visiting a camp in Russia for refugees from the conflict in Ukraine's east and calling for the fighting to stop.
• According to the Interfax news agency, Lamberto Zannier said Thursday that the conflict in the east "is craziness which must be stopped."
• Zannier's appearance before the refugees at a holiday complex in Dmitriadovka, about 40 kilometers (25 miles) from the Ukrainian border, underlined the prominent role being played by the OSCE in the Ukraine crisis. Russia, which Kiev and the West allege has fomented the separatist unrest in the east, has spoken strongly in support of an OSCE-proposed "road map" for ending the conflict.
• Russia says some 30,000 people have fled the fighting.
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