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.
-
PublishedMarch 5, 2013
Three seek road commissioner’s job in Vienna on Friday
Troy Bean, Danny Goucher and Alan Williams are seeking the post of Vienna road commissioner, following Linwood Meader Jr.’s retirement, in Friday’s election.
-
PublishedMarch 5, 2013
Trial of Chelsea contractor, former selectwoman starts July 8
The trial of former Chelsea selectwoman Carole Swan and her husband, Marshall Swan, on federal fraud charges has been specially set for July 8 in Bangor.
-
PublishedMarch 4, 2013
Sexual assault charge dropped against Wayne man
A sexual assault charge against Mark B. Kimball, 61, of Wayne, alleging a 2012 assault against a 6-year-old boy in Carrabassett Valley, has been dropped due to problems with evidence.
-
PublishedMarch 1, 2013
Maine supreme court orders state to retain insurance inspector
Michael Nadeau, of Windham, who lost his job with the Bureau of Insurance over his wife’s position as an insurance company vice president, was ordered reinstated by the Maine Supreme Judicial Court.
-
PublishedMarch 1, 2013
Lagasse not guilty in Waterville bar stabbing
Albe Lagasse, 45, of Bangor, was found not guilty of two counts of aggravated assault in an April stabbing of two men outside a tavern in Waterville’s South End.
-
PublishedFebruary 28, 2013
Ex-wife sues in Albion construction fatality
AUGUSTA — The ex-wife of a man killed in an Albion construction accident last May has gone to court seeking an unspecified amount of damages from the owner of the company that was doing the work.
-
PublishedFebruary 27, 2013
Victims, witnesses are ‘rough people’ in stabbing trial, prosecutor says
AUGUSTA — A profanity-laden exchange among several men at The Chez Paree bar in Waterville’s South End just prior to the 1 a.m. closing last April led to an assault outside the bar that left one man unconscious and two others fleeing as they clutched their stab wounds.
-
PublishedFebruary 26, 2013
Former Chelsea selectwoman loses bid to squash statements; federal trial cleared to start
Carole Swan is scheduled for trial on fraud and extortion charges in five weeks now that a federal judge has upheld rulings that refuse to suppress the former Chelsea selectwoman’s statements to investigators.
-
PublishedFebruary 26, 2013
Sentencing for Waterville man deferred 12 months to avoid conviction
AUGUSTA — A Waterville man pleaded guilty Tuesday to aggravated felony trafficking in marijuana for having 2.6 pounds of what the prosecutor described as flat, processed, pressed marijuana hidden in a safe in his car.
-
PublishedFebruary 26, 2013
Suspected getaway driver charged in CVS pharmacy robbery
AUGUSTA — Authorities have charged a 33-year-old Sidney man who is suspected of being the getaway driver during a Capitol Street CVS pharmacy robbery that occurred Nov. 17.
- ← Previous Page
- 1
- …
- 225
- 226
- 227
- 228
- 229
- …
- 305
- Next Page →