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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PublishedSeptember 20, 2018
Prosecutor says Scott Bubar placed shotgun, keys under dead dad after Belgrade shootout with police
The nonjury trial resumes with closing arguments on Oct. 1.
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PublishedSeptember 19, 2018
Winthrop teen pleads guilty to murdering parents on Halloween morning 2016
Andrew Balcer, who feared gender identity repercussions and a recurrence of alleged sex abuse by mom, now faces 25 to 55 years in prison.
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PublishedSeptember 19, 2018
Will the Belgrade town manager’s performance be affected if he’s elected as a state rep? Some residents think so.
Members of the Belgrade select board say Dennis Keschl consulted with them before agreeing to enter the District 76 race for the Maine House of Representatives.
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PublishedSeptember 18, 2018
Testimony at Brunswick man’s attempted cop-killing trial involves shotgun shells, DNA
Scott Bubar is accused of aggravated attempted murder of a Kennebec County sheriff’s deputy during a 2017 shootout in Belgrade.
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PublishedSeptember 17, 2018
New Yorker charged with conspiring to distribute large amounts of heroin, cocaine
Andre Fields is serving time in state prison for drug offense in Vassalboro.
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PublishedSeptember 15, 2018
Balcer, in jailhouse interview, makes new abuse allegations after parents’ Halloween killings in Winthrop
The 19-year-old, who now identifies as a woman, alleges that years of sexual and mental abuse culminated in the 2016 murders, which she regrets.
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PublishedSeptember 14, 2018
Augusta man sentenced for child sex assault that occurred several years ago
Eric Say, 26, was ordered to serve an initial four years in prison.
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PublishedSeptember 14, 2018
Scott Bubar told police he tried to wrestle the guns away from his father in Belgrade standoff
Bubar is on trial on charges he attempted to murder a sheriff’s deputy in May 2017 in Belgrade.
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PublishedSeptember 13, 2018
Ex-Madison police sergeant says union failed to represent him properly
David Trask is appealing a decision of the Maine Labor Relations Board and the superior court.
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PublishedSeptember 13, 2018
Deputy says man in green shirt fired at him in Belgrade
Sgt. Jacob Pierce testified Thursday at the trial of Scott Bubar, who is accused of attempting to murder the law enforcement officer.
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