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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PublishedFebruary 1, 2012
China man pleads guilty to break-in, sex assault
James A. Bickford admitted breaking into a neighbor’s home last summer and sexually assaulting her before she was able to flee.
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PublishedJanuary 21, 2012
Winthrop’s brand new plow truck goes up in flames
The town’s newest plow truck — a red one delivered at 2 p.m. Thursday — goes up in flames 14 hours later during its first run in a snowstorm.
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PublishedJanuary 20, 2012
Vassalboro shooter says he, family were threatened
Joseph L. Gagnon, 55, told his brother that he shot Rafael Encarnacion, 22 — his daughter’s boyfriend — because Encarnacion “was threatening him, his girlfriend and his kids.”
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PublishedJanuary 11, 2012
Dentist’s bookkeeper gets 6 months for embezzling $120K
Augusta dentist Darryl Zeleniak says he and others in his office all felt betrayed by Celine M. Davis, whom he had treated ‘as a friend.’
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PublishedJanuary 5, 2012
Ex-Chelsea official seeks settlement on kickback charges
The attorney for a former Chelsea selectwoman said he is working with federal prosecutors to try to negotiate a settlement.
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PublishedDecember 28, 2011
Waitress: Arson suspect wasn’t jealous
Raymond Bellavance’s ex-girlfriend says she never heard him threaten to burn the Grand View Topless Coffee Shop.
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PublishedDecember 21, 2011
Witnesses: Suspect said he set fire to coffee shop
An ex-girlfriend and a jail inmate say Raymond Bellavance confessed to destroying the Grand View Topless Coffee Shop.
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PublishedDecember 20, 2011
Ex-girlfriend: Arson suspect threatened me, my horse
Raymond Bellavance’s former girlfriend testifies that he confessed to her several times to setting the fire that destroyed a topless coffee shop in Vassalboro.
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PublishedDecember 14, 2011
Higgins pleads guilty to embezzling from law group
The former assistant for the Maine Trial Lawyers Association admitted this morning to embezzling $166,000, much of which was spent on social-networking online games.
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PublishedDecember 14, 2011
Testimony begins in coffee-shop arson trial
A judge on Tuesday rejected the latest efforts to get arson charges dismissed against Raymond Bellavance Jr, allowing the trial to begin this morning.
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