Betty Adams is a general assignment reporter who’s lived in Augusta for the past 35 years and been working for the Kennebec Journal for more than two decades. She covers the courts plus the towns of Belgrade, Fayette and Readfield. As adjunct instructor Elizabeth Adams, she teaches writing courses, including journalism, at the University of Maine at Augusta. In her spare time, when she’s not playing with the grandchildren, bicycling on the rail trail, snowshoeing or cross-country skiing, she likes to travel both in the United States and abroad via cruise ship and occasionally on the back of a motorcycle. She is a graduate of the Pennsylvania State University and earned a master’s of journalism from Carleton University in Ottawa, Canada.
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PublishedJanuary 10, 2013
Hallowell Pre-Release Center to close
The facility’s 58 inmates and 21 budgeted staff positions are being relocated to the Bolduc Correctional Facility in Warren.
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PublishedJanuary 8, 2013
Litchfield may ban weddings at its office
After a gay couple’s request is denied, the town weighs allowing no marriage ceremonies at the town hall.
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PublishedJanuary 1, 2013
Alan Kelley retires as Somerset, Kennebec counties district attorney
AUGUSTA — After 33 years on the job, the last 12 months as acting district attorney in Kennebec and Somerset counties, prosecutor Alan Kelley retired Monday from his state job.
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PublishedDecember 26, 2012
More charges vs. alleged Maine cop impersonator
Steven F. Shaw Jr. also is a suspect in burglaries and the unauthorized use of another man’s car.
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PublishedDecember 18, 2012
Accused Augusta heroin trafficker claims mistaken identity
A man who initially identified himself as James Davis, 19, of Harlem, N.Y., or Belgrade. is charged with aggravated trafficking in heroin in a school zone and trafficking in heroin.
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PublishedDecember 14, 2012
Judge rules against ex-Chelsea selectwoman in fraud case
A federal judge has rejected former Chelsea selectwoman’s Carole Swan’s efforts to keep her admissions to deputies out of her upcoming fraud trial.
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PublishedDecember 12, 2012
Occupy defendant pleads guilty to Blaine House trespass
James H. Freeman, 63, of Verona Island, will be able to withdraw the guilty plea and the charge will be dismissed if he avoids committing any crimes for a six-month period.
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PublishedDecember 7, 2012
Winthrop pharmacy robber to serve 3 years in prison
Anthony R. Caballes-Mabe, 19, of Augusta, pleaded guilty in Kennebec County Superior Court to the robbery and to stealing oxycodone from the pharmacy.
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PublishedNovember 28, 2012
Non-jury trial set for Maine man accused of killing partner
Michael Young claims that David Cox was stabbed in the chest when he tripped over a bicycle.
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PublishedNovember 27, 2012
Judge rules Augusta man not criminally responsible for stabbing roommate
AUGUSTA — A judge on Tuesday concluded that a city man was not criminally responsible by reason of mental disease for stabbing a roommate a year earlier.
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