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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PublishedMarch 20, 2015
Clinton man sentenced to 17 years for Waterville attack that broke victim’s jaw
Richard Poirier was charged after police found the victim’s full wallet on him.
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PublishedMarch 19, 2015
Franklin County criminal threatening lands man behind bars for 30 months
Brandon Knox was convicted by a jury last June and sentenced Thursday in Kennebec County Superior Court.
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PublishedMarch 19, 2015
Belgrade woman gets two years for stealing Walmart shopper’s wallet
The July 2, 2014 robbery at the Augusta Walmart store was caught on video.
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PublishedMarch 17, 2015
Boy Scout volunteer from Waterville sentenced on child pornography charge
Charles H. Tisdale Jr. will spend six months behind bars for the offense, which occurred in 2011.
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PublishedMarch 17, 2015
Riverview patients plead guilty to assaults, property damage
Two men with histories of mental illness were sentenced to jail terms after hearings in Kennebec County Superior Court.
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PublishedMarch 16, 2015
Belgrade to vote on mass gathering ordinance, town office project
Town polls are open 8 a.m. to 8 p.m. Friday with the Town Meeting starting at 1 p.m. Saturday.
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PublishedMarch 14, 2015
Jail inmates help with historic Kennebec County Courthouse makeover
On Friday, a dozen inmates from the Kennebec County jail, all in orange sweatshirts, scurried in and out of the building as a corrections officer stayed nearby.
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PublishedMarch 13, 2015
‘A lot of things went wrong’ in erroneous Kennebec County inmate release
Freeman A. Taylor turned himself in after he was accidentally released Thursday, and jail officials are investigating how it happened.
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PublishedMarch 12, 2015
Arsonist sentenced in 2013 Augusta house fire
Two people who were asleep in the building woke up and fled without injury.
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PublishedMarch 12, 2015
Jail error in Augusta inmate’s favor sets him free
Police are looking for Freeman A. Taylor Jr., 41, who was mistakenly released from the county jail Thursday afternoon.
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