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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PublishedMarch 7, 2012
Ex-Maine legislator to plead guilty to gun charges
He has been accused of threatening a newspaper photographer at gunpoint.
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PublishedMarch 6, 2012
Judge issues arrest warrants for 5 Occupy protesters
The five, including a Benton selectwoman, are charged with criminal trespass for allegedly refusing to leave the grounds of the Blaine House on Nov. 30, 2011.
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PublishedMarch 6, 2012
Former Occupy Augusta protester jailed for knife threat
Anthony J. Williams, 27, of Augusta, is sentenced to three years in jail, with all but the initial seven months suspended, and two years of probation.
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PublishedMarch 3, 2012
Topless coffee shop arsonist will be sentenced this month
A judge sets the hearing for March 19 after rejecting a request for a new trial.
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PublishedMarch 2, 2012
Topless coffee shop arsonist to be sentenced this month
AUGUSTA — The man convicted of burning down the Grand View Topless Coffee Shop in Vassalboro will be sentenced later this month.
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PublishedMarch 1, 2012
Former Chelsea selectwoman, husband indicted on federal fraud charges
Former Chelsea selectwoman Carole Swan, and her husband, Marshall, were indicted today on federal fraud charges.
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PublishedFebruary 29, 2012
Father to serve 18 months for assaulting 4-month-old
A Waterville man admits he shoved his 4-month-old daughter’s head into a cushion to stop her from crying.
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PublishedFebruary 27, 2012
State squeezing rights panel’s conference space
The state is moving computer equipment into some or all of a conference room being used by the Maine Human Rights Commission.
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PublishedFebruary 23, 2012
ATV that sank in Kennebec was stolen
The operator of one of two all-terrain vehicles that broke through the ice and sank last week now faces a felony charge.
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PublishedFebruary 14, 2012
Three indicted in central Maine burglary spree
An Augusta man, his girlfriend and his sister face more than 100 criminal charges in connection with a string of burglaries last fall.
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