Adam P. Dyer, 29, pleaded guilty to providing alcohol to a boy under 15 years old and sexually assaulting him.
Betty Adams
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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Augusta man to serve two years for trafficking in cocaine, heroin
Joshua Arbour pleaded guilty to those and other offenses Tuesday in Augusta.
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‘North Pond Hermit’ Knight balks at paying costs related to his remote campsite
The Maine Supreme Judicial Court is set to hear oral arguments next week over the $1,125 restitution ordered to cover the costs to remove a road police built in 2013 to reach his encampment.
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Burglaries, thefts lead list of Kennebec indictments
Two people from Portland are accused of stealing more than $1,000 worth of textbooks from Colby College.
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Six area people indicted on welfare fraud charges
Several of the defendants are accused of illegally obtaining more than $10,000 in public benefits.
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Fayette to send trash, recyclables to Readfield/Wayne transfer station after June 30
The towns will continue negotiating with the goal of making Fayette a partner by July 1, 2017.
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‘Ball of fire’ destroys Vassalboro home
No one was injured in the Friday morning blaze at 3 Bradley Lane in Vassalboro, but several chickens were lost, the fire chief said.
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Mount Vernon man pleads guilty to receiving stolen property for drinking stolen tequila
Steven C. Chaput’s 1-year sentence will run at the same time as his 6-year term for pharmacy robbery.
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Jurors split ranks on verdict in domestic violence charge
A Waterville man is cleared of an aggravated assault charge from March 2015 but will face a new trial on a domestic violence charge.
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Kennebec inmate on work detail in Augusta accused of escape
Deputies say Nicole M. Dyment, 19, ran from the Criminogenic Addiction Recovery Academy Program on Sunday, but a sheriff’s deputy caught her quickly.