A judge has ordered the medical marijuana patient to stop smoking at home, at least temporarily.
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.
Posted inCops & Courts, Local & State, Maine Crime
Jailed Winslow man charged with arson, burglary
Investigators say Victor Dudley broke into Winslow Century 21 offices on Sunday and set a small fire there.
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Posted inLocal & State, Maine Crime
Two New Yorkers, two local residents arrested in Gardiner drug raid
A judge said the amount of drugs and money found has ‘all the earmarks of a major drug-trafficking operation.’
Posted inLocal & State, Maine Crime
Two more sentenced in 2015 beating death in Augusta
Michael Sean McQuade and Damik Davis were the final two defendants in the slaying of Joseph Marceau.
Posted inLocal & State, Maine Crime
Two men to be sentenced Monday in beating death of Augusta man
Damik Davis, of New York, and Michael McQuade, of Augusta, pleaded guilty to felony murder and robbery charges in the slaying of Joseph Marceau.
Posted inLocal & State
Sun greets Richmond Days attendees
Parade, roller skating in the street, corn hole contests and lobster crate races provided loads of fun.
Posted inLocal & State
Law court upholds ruling in favor of Mount Vernon in generator dispute
The town’s Board of Appeals had concluded that the property owners’ generator was a structure illegally sited within 100 feet of Minnehonk Lake.
Posted inLocal & State, Maine Crime
Maine high court upholds warrantless OUI blood test in Chelsea crash
The conviction of Rowe L. Palmer, of Farmingdale, was upheld in the ruling by the Law Court in an opinion published Thursday.
Posted inLocal & State, Maine Crime
Augusta man arrested on charge of tampering with informant in his drug case
Christopher Screen, 39, is being held without bail on a bail violation charge.
Posted inLocal & State, Maine Crime
Waterville men accused of tampering with victim in sexual assault case
Randall Cook and Richard Hildreth, who are charged in both Maine and New Hampshire, are free on bail.