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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PublishedMay 14, 2010
Machete suspect blames ‘brother’ for the attack
Daniel L. Fortune says it was Leo R. Hylton alone who wounded a Pittston man and his daughter.
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PublishedMay 13, 2010
Home invasion testimony may wrap up today
Daniel L. Fortune and his lawyers have yet to decide whether he will take the stand in his defense.
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PublishedMay 12, 2010
Mills murder suspect enters no plea
Originally published in the Portland Press Herald Thursday, July 19, 2007 His hands cuffed to his belt and his legs in shackles, a 20-year-old Newcastle man told a judge on Wednesday that he understood that he was being charged with murdering a former classmate. John A. Okie, accompanied by his attorney, did not enter a […]
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PublishedMay 12, 2010
Machete-attack jury sees video of Hylton
Daniel Fortune is on trial as Leo Hylton’s accomplice in the 2008 home invasion in Pittston.
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PublishedMay 11, 2010
Fortune trial continues
The home invasion and theft trial of Daniel L. Fortune picked up today with the words of co-defendant Leo Rose Hylton being read to the jury.
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PublishedMay 8, 2010
Machete attack trial: Deputy thought 10-year-old was dead
SKOWHEGAN – The deputy who arrived first at the scene of a home invasion in Pittston two years ago thought the young girl in the bed upstairs was dead. “Her head was split open like an egg,” Kennebec County Sheriff’s Deputy David Bucknam testified Friday, the second day of the trial of Daniel Fortune. “I […]
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PublishedMay 7, 2010
Trial opens for suspect in ’08 assault
Jurors watch video taken hours after a machete attack that left a father and daughter badly hurt.
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PublishedMay 6, 2010
Prosecution lays out case in Fortune trial
SKOWHEGAN – A jury today heard a prosecutor lay out his theory about why an Augusta man participated in a machete attack that left a father and young daughter seriously injured almost two years ago. Deputy District Attorney Alan Kelley said Daniel L. Fortune, 22, needed money for bail and he needed Pittston resident William […]
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PublishedMay 4, 2010
UPDATE: Jury seated in Pittston attack
Jury selection in the case of Daniel L. Fortune, 22, of Augusta, took all of Tuesday morning in Somerset County Superior Court.
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PublishedMay 4, 2010
Pittston machete attack trial underway
Jury selection in the case of Daniel L. Fortune, 22, of Augusta, began Tuesday in Somerset County Superior Court.
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