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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PublishedJanuary 6, 2015
Former Kennebec County sheriff’s captain Picard now working court security
Picard was fired in November after a tangle over possible involvement in the Somerset County sheriff’s race.
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PublishedJanuary 6, 2015
Gardiner man sentenced for Randolph aggravated assault
David A. Farnham was ordered by a Kennebec County Superior Court judge to serve six years in jail with all but six months suspended and three years’ probation.
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PublishedJanuary 5, 2015
Gardiner man charged with killing father found incompetent for trial
Leroy Smith III is expected to be sent to Riverview Psychiatric Center for treatment.
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PublishedJanuary 5, 2015
Sentencing delayed for Sidney man who pleaded guilty to raping 4-year-old
Defense attorneys for Eric L. Bard want time to allow a psychosexual evaluator to view some of the evidence.
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PublishedJanuary 3, 2015
Ex-prosecutor Cameron appeals his prison sentence for child pornography, bail jumping
The former Hallowell and Rome man was sentenced to 189 months in federal prison.
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PublishedJanuary 2, 2015
Police say other driver crossed line in Route 202 Leeds double fatal
Preliminary reports about who crossed the center line in an accident that killed a Winthrop father and son were wrong.
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PublishedJanuary 2, 2015
Maeghan Maloney Kennebec Valley chamber’s Young Professional of the Year
The district attorney for Kennebec and Somerset counties will be honored at the chamber annual dinner later this month.
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PublishedDecember 31, 2014
Damon’s Beverage Barn break-in suspect on probation for 2008 arson
Augusta police continue to seek a second suspect, Justin Murphy, 26.
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PublishedDecember 31, 2014
Fairfield police captain’s checks stolen
Stephen Frappier, of Benton, was sentenced for theft and forgery after he cashed one of Kingston Paul’s checks at Maine Savings Federal Credit Union in Vassalboro, then tried to cash another.
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PublishedDecember 31, 2014
Augusta heroin-trafficker draws 5-year prison term
Darvent Cummings, 23, already has served time for criminal threatening with a dangerous weapon and another drug conviction.
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