A jury deliberated less than half an hour before finding BethMarie Retamozzo guilty of two counts of criminal restraint by a parent.
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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Kennebec County inmate pleads guilty to having heroin in the jail
Investigator says Augusta man’s girlfriend smuggled the drug into jail for him on her necklace.
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Riverview patient sentenced for rampage at state hospital
Charles Miles will be on probation at the state hospital after not contesting charges of causing more than $1,000 of property damage at Riverview.
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Former Winslow woman pleads guilty to embezzling school sports funds
Wendi R. Willette also admitted stealing more than $60,000 in state assistance during a court appearance Tuesday.
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Capital Judicial Center art shows the history, flow of the Kennebec
Christopher Cart’s mural in the new Augusta courthouse is just one of many works by area artists that adorn the walls funded by the Percent for Art program.
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Four-vehicle crash in Litchfield sends four people to area hospitals
A snowdrift may have caused a crash that involved four vehicles in the southbound lanes of the Maine Turnpike.
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Central Maine blizzard warnings replaced by brutal wind, cold
The heavy snow forecast for Sunday tracked east of central Maine, leaving frigid, dangerously cold air in its wake.
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2 feet of snow zeros in on central Maine
A blizzard warnings is in effect through 7 a.m. Monday.
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Skowhegan man sentenced to prison for aggravated assault
Neal Teixeira was sentenced on assault and sexual contact charges, and an Augusta woman was sentenced for assault in a separate Kennebec County Superior Court trial.
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Gardiner couple weds at hospital after almost 27 years of being together
It took a health crisis to move them to the hospital altar, a ceremony celebrated Thursday at MaineGeneral Medical Center in Augusta.