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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PublishedAugust 5, 2013
Waterville bar-shooting suspect to make manslaughter plea Wednesday
Matthew Partridge, 30, of Winslow, is scheduled to plead guilty Wednesday to manslaughter in the shooting death of 26-year-old Justin V. Smith, of South China, last December outside a pub in Waterville.
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PublishedAugust 5, 2013
Lawler ordered held without bail after Wednesday fracas in Fairfield
Travis J. Lawler, sentenced last week in the drunken-driving deaths of his sister and her boyfriend in 2012, was ordered held without bail Monday, following a Wednesday incident in Fairfield that put the former Marine in a hospital, then in jail.
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PublishedAugust 2, 2013
North Pond Hermit indicted on Smithfield burglary, theft charges
A Somerset County grand jury Thursday indicted Christopher T. Knight, commonly known as the North Pond Hermit, on one count each of burglary and theft Thursday, for allegedly pilfering food and alcohol from a Smithfield home.
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PublishedAugust 2, 2013
Alleged Augusta arsonist unfit for trial in Sand Hill blaze
Stephen B. Cormier, 57, has been judged incompetent to stand trial on two arson charges, related to the March destruction of an apartment house on Northern Avenue in Augusta.
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PublishedAugust 2, 2013
Man in NYC-to-Maine drug ring pleads guilty, to be sentenced later
James “Reggie” Proudfoot, 33, of New York pleaded guilty Thursday in U.S. District Court in Bangor to a charge of conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute oxycodone.
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PublishedAugust 1, 2013
Riverview patient with history of assaulting staffers found competent to stand trial
Anthony Reed faces three misdemeanor assault charges stemming from an April, 2012, incident at the psychiatric hospital in Augusta.
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PublishedAugust 1, 2013
Partridge waives right to a jury trial in shooting death of South China man outside Waterville pub
A Winslow man has been charged with murder in the death of Justin Smith, who was shot outside You Know Who’s Pub in December
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PublishedJuly 31, 2013
Swan to be tried on extortion charges in September
Former Chelsea selectwoman, convicted last week on tax and workers’ compensation fraud, now must answer federal charges she used her public position to extort money.
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PublishedJuly 31, 2013
Winthrop man sentenced in Augusta purse snatchings
Police said Jed Ian St. Hilaire used the money he got after attacking women at Walmart and Hannaford to buy drugs.
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PublishedJuly 30, 2013
Rome summer family had long history with the North Pond Hermit
Garry and Brenda Hollands would annually trek to one of Christopher Knight’s early campsites in Rome.
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