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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PublishedJuly 15, 2014
Leroy Smith III found incompetent, asks to fire lawyers
The Gardiner man was scheduled to be arraigned Tuesday on a charge of murdering his father.
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PublishedJuly 14, 2014
Vassalboro man sentenced for November murder
Courtney Shea pleaded guilty and apologized in court Monday for killing Thomas Namer of Waterville.
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PublishedJuly 12, 2014
Winthrop sues attorney about building improvements
Karen Burke’s attorney says she has sought a permit repeatedly.
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PublishedJuly 11, 2014
Augusta Bastille festival kicks off in high gear
Le Club Calumet’s celebration continues all day Saturday.
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PublishedJuly 10, 2014
Sidney man loses court appeal in theft conviction
Karl Kittredge’s statements to police in his probation officer’s office should have been suppressed, his laywer argued.
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PublishedJuly 10, 2014
Prosecutor wants Hallowell bank robbery suspect kept behind bars
John Cecil Slater is described as a safety risk who is likely to flee.
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PublishedJuly 10, 2014
Sidney man charged with more sex trafficking, drugs counts
Frederick Horne Sr.’s West River Road house was raided in April after a two-year investigation.
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PublishedJuly 9, 2014
Alleged Hallowell bank robber in custody
John Cecil Slater is to appear in federal court Thursday charged with the June 23 robbery of the Bank of Maine on Winthrop Street.
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PublishedJuly 8, 2014
Ex-Wayne teacher pleads guilty to sexually exploiting boys
Patrik Ian Arsenault, 27, of Norridgewock, faces related state charges as well.
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PublishedJuly 8, 2014
Central Maine drug conspirator gets 100 months in federal prison
A New York man admitted to supplying oxycodone pills.
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