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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PublishedDecember 14, 2011
Life sentence upheld in machete attack
Maine’s highest court ruled Tuesday that Daniel Fortune will remain in prison for life for a home invasion and machete attack that left a father and his 10-year-old daughter maimed.
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PublishedDecember 14, 2011
Trial to start today in topless shop fire
A judge rejects a defense allegation of investigator misconduct in its treatment of witnesses.
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PublishedDecember 13, 2011
Topless coffee shop arson trial set to begin
A judge rejects the latest efforts to get charges against Raymond Bellavance Jr. dismissed, allowing his jury trial to get under way Wednesday.
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PublishedNovember 29, 2011
Former teacher denies child porn charge
A former Monmouth Middle School fifth-grade teacher denies a charge that he had school laptops loaded with photographs depicting nude children in sexually explicit positions.
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PublishedNovember 29, 2011
Ex-legislator denies threatening man at gunpoint
Frederick L. Wintle formally entered not guilty pleas today to an indictment accusing him of holding a man at gunpoint in a Waterville parking lot last May.
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PublishedNovember 22, 2011
Pharmacy robber admits Augusta hammer attack
An Augusta man who spent six years in federal prison for the robbery pleads guilty to charges that will send him back to jail for four years.
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PublishedNovember 21, 2011
In Litchfield, manure wagon presents road hazard
How much manure poses a road hazard?
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PublishedNovember 11, 2011
Ex-soldier’s spirits lifted after offers of assistance
The former Army sergeant expresses his appreciation for the support — and for knowing that people care.
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PublishedNovember 10, 2011
Tenants who had to empty toilets by hand win in court
An owner of an Augusta mobile-home park refused to fix burst water pipes. Tenants had to carry their own water and empty toilets by hand.
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PublishedNovember 8, 2011
Maine woman, accused of stealing from lawyers, faces trial in December
Bettysue Higgins faces charges of forgery and theft from the Maine Trial Lawyers Association.
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