Steven C. Chaput was the getaway driver for Rudger Ellis in pharmacy robberies in Augusta and Gardiner in February.
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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Randolph couple sentenced on food stamp fraud
Assistant Attorney General John Alsop said in court documents that Deborah Taylor, 48, of Randolph told one branch of DHHS one thing, and another branch of the same agency something different.
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Sidney man sentenced to 14 years in prison after construction site burglaries
Clinton Bates stole tools from the construction site of veteran Travis Mills’ home in Manchester and another home in Windsor less than 30 days after he was released from serving a previous sentence.
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Police seek suspect in ‘random’ assault Sunday on rail trail in Farmingdale
The victim was taken to MaineGeneral Medical Center in Augusta for treatment.
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Augusta’s Cunningham Park bigger, better
Rededication ceremony shows off new equipment, larger area that welcomes children to the site at Bridge and North streets.
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Carole Swan’s attorney asks appeals panel to overturn suppression ruling
Swan, a former longtime Chelsea selectwoman, is seeking new trials on her extortion and tax fraud convictions.
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Cancer survivors share stories, humor at Harold Alfond Center for Cancer Care fete
Humorist Tim Sample headlined the theme for the day: ‘Love & laughter … wicked good medicine.’
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Police arrest ‘Cheese’ on drug trafficking charges
Ronald L. Granger is being held on $20,000 cash bail.
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State wants court to order medication for defendant in Gardiner murder case
Attorneys for Leroy H. Smith III object, saying forced medication violates his constitutional rights.
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Riverview patient tied to killing, rape seeks release
Donald Beauchene, found not guilty because of mental disease in the 1969 slaying of a woman in Portland, says he no longer needs psychiatric treatment and should be released.