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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PublishedApril 6, 2015
Augusta cocaine dealer sentenced to six years in prison
Roberson Antoine was on probation for selling cocaine at the time he was arrested for selling cocaine.
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PublishedApril 6, 2015
Wayne co-defendant sentenced in burglary spree
Rebecca Lee, 40, formerly of Madison, was accused of 92 crimes along with Justin Ross, 37, also of Wayne, who was sentenced recently to 10 years in prison.
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PublishedMarch 29, 2015
Former Augusta mayor sues developer for back wages, bonuses
William Dowling seeks a lien of almost $900,000 on Kevin Mattson and his various firms, according to a complaint in Kennebec County Superior Court.
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PublishedMarch 27, 2015
Whitefield worm-digger jailed for welfare fraud
Timothy Peaslee, 42, was ordered to serve seven months in jail and to pay up to $16,000 remaining in restitution.
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PublishedMarch 27, 2015
Fire extinguished at Whitefield Elementary School
A light fixture in the gymnasium was blamed for causing a second fire in about a year.
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PublishedMarch 26, 2015
Oakland man sentenced in Waterville stabbing
Noah Michaud, 22, climbed the fire escape to get into his former girlfriend’s apartment, where he stabbed her new boyfriend.
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PublishedMarch 26, 2015
Rome man sentenced for child porn
Dennis R. Allen, 74, also of Pompano Beach, Fla., was indicted last summer on a charge of possession of sexually explicit materials.
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PublishedMarch 26, 2015
Former prison guard from Vassalboro sentenced for unlawful sexual contact
Travis Lyon was ordered to serve eight years of a 10-year sentence and 16 years’ probation for assaults that began when the victim was 11.
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PublishedMarch 24, 2015
Newcastle woman pleads guilty to drug offenses
Several other people were sentenced Tuesday in Kennebec Superior Court and Augusta District Court cases heard at the Capital Judicial Center in Augusta.
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PublishedMarch 24, 2015
Serial burglar who hit Fayette, Mount Vernon, Wayne gets 10-year term
Justin Ross, 37, of Wayne and formerly of Ellsworth, pleaded guilty Tuesday to 92 crimes, mostly burglary and theft.
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