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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PublishedMay 14, 2014
Inmate from Fairfield wants more ‘good time’ credit
Glen C. Harrington III thought he would be eligible for nine days a month good time when he agreed to his sentence.
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PublishedMay 14, 2014
Cumberland County jail guard fights to get work rights back
An attorney for Nicholas Stein argued that he should not have to serve a one-year suspension of his certificate to work as a guard for dragging an injured inmate 127 feet across a concrete floor.
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PublishedMay 14, 2014
Sidney man convicted of theft says he felt pressured to talk to police
An attorney for Karl V. Kittredge said statements made to police should have been suppressed.
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PublishedMay 13, 2014
Ex-Maine Tourism Association official pleads guilty to embezzlement
Ronald G. Brann paid his mortgage, golf fees, ski fees and other expenses with the $116,000 stolen from the Hallowell-based group, according to a prosecutor.
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PublishedMay 12, 2014
Bangor man found not criminally responsible for 2011 murder
William L. Hall, 32, told a judge Monday that he was possessed and did not know what he was doing when he killed Melvin Abreu.
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PublishedMay 9, 2014
Fayette institutes virtual Q&A for local candidates
Residents will get to ask the four people seeking two seats on the school committee questions online in the first contested race in a decade.
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PublishedMay 9, 2014
Progress made on new Augusta state Department of Transportation fleet center
The Industrial Drive warehouse in north Augusta has been stripped to its I-beam skeleton and state officials hope the vehicles can move in before winter.
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PublishedMay 8, 2014
Augusta drug sales to undercover agent cost ex-New Yorker six years in prison
The defendant, Allen Jamel James, formerly of Manhattan, apologized in Kennebec County Superior Court to those he harmed.
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PublishedMay 8, 2014
Gardiner man charged with killing father calls himself ‘political prisoner’
Leroy Smith III told investigators he used knives to ‘dismember’ his father, according to an affidavit released in court Thursday.
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PublishedMay 7, 2014
Belgrade camp owner concerned about pedestrian safety
Castle Island Camps operator John Rice told the Belgrade Board of Selectpersons Tuesday that his camps are on a “dangerous stretch of road.”
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