Christopher Norwood, of Augusta, successfully completed a yearlong deferred disposition in the criminal case, which required him to complete a parenting course.
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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Woman arrested in Augusta on NY murder charge
Yashonia M. Davis is accused in the death of Abraham Caraballo.
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Augusta man back in prison after overdosing on heroin
Roger Linton II was on probation for a 2008 drunken driving manslaughter charge, when he violated conditions of release prohibiting drug use in April, prosecutors say.
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Canaan woman who sold ‘staggering’ amount of drugs imprisoned on federal, state charges
A federal judge said Toni Juliano, 30, was a ‘major drug dealer in Central Maine.’
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New Yorker begins 2-year imprisonment for drug trafficking in central Maine
William Bazemore Jr., 38, was sentenced Monday at the Capital Judicial Center in Augusta.
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Convicted killer wins unsupervised time outside Augusta psychiatric facility
Mark Gessner, who was convicted of murdering a florist in Bath in 1994, was placed in state custody after being released from prison because he was found not criminally responsible for other offenses.
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Man found innocent of manslaughter charge in Sidney ATV trial
Alexander Biddle, 23, was cleared in the death of his passenger, Halee Cummings, 18, after an ATV crash in September 2015.
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Manslaughter defendant in Sidney ATV fatal tried to send apology to Cummings’ family
A recording played in court Wednesday included comments from Alexander Biddle in which he told emergency responders ‘I am truly sorry.’
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Sidney ATV manslaughter trial begins with jury riding to scene
Alexander J. Biddle, 23, of Pittston, is charged with manslaughter in connection with the death of Halee Cummings, 18, of Sidney.
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Augusta residents indicted on drug trafficking charges
A number of other people were indicted on various charges by a grand jury sitting in Kennebec County.