The intruders were armed and made off with a pound of marijuana, police say.
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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Former Oakland couple arrested on child sex assault charges
Stephen Smith and Sarah Conway, now of Canaan, New Hampshire, are in the Kennebec County jail.
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Gardiner area volunteers round up flock of turkeys for holiday meals
Collection, donations benefit Chrysalis Place, the Gardiner area food bank and will be used throughout the season.
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Family anguish continues 40 years after Washington cold case homicide
Ludger R. Belanger, who was 25 when he disappeared after heading out to go deer hunting, is one of 70 unsolved homicides in Maine.
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Two pet Holsteins shot and killed in Richmond
Theodore and Isadora were shot intentionally, not as a result of a hunting accident, police say and owner Daria Goggins is offering a reward for information leading to an arrest.
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Augusta woman to serve 63 months in federal prison for identity theft
The prosecution said Joann Rittall stole personal information from people and used it to file false income tax returns in their names in order to collect refunds.
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Roland L. Cummings convicted of murdering Waterville man, 92
The jury returned the verdict Thursday afternoon on the sixth day of Cummings’ trial in the stabbing death of Aurele Fecteau, of Waterville.
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Winslow man sentenced to prison for sexually assaulting two girls
David W. Morissette, 46, will serve an initial four years in prison and will not be allowed to have any unsupervised contact with children under 16 when he gets out.
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Winslow man sentenced to prison for sexually assaulting two girls
David W. Morissette, 46, will serve an initial four years in prison, and will not be allowed to have any unsupervised contact with children under 16 when he gets out.
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Jury to resume deliberations Thursday in Waterville murder trial
In closing arguments, the prosecution urged jurors to follow the evidence in the case against Roland Cummings, who is accused of killing Aurele Fecteau, but the defense offered an alternative suspect and theories.