An employee at Riverview Psychiatric Center suffered serious stab wounds Saturday when she allegedly was attacked by Mark P. Murphy, 47,a patient who has history of assaulting hospital staff members and fellow patients.
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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Exit 113 renovations, routes 3 and 27 link top capital area’s road projects
State Transportation Commissioner David Bernhardt updated guests at the Kennebec Valley Chamber of Commerce “Business Insider” breakfast on Wednesday regarding the many road projects slated to begin this summer in the capital area.
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Hallowell loses Greater Augusta Utilities District sewer rates dispute
Controversial sewer rates set by the Greater Augusta Utility District in October 2011 will stand, under a Kennebec County Superior Court ruling.
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Litchfield says ‘no’ a second time to state-sponsored ballot counting machines
Litchfield has rejected a second state offer of a machine to tabulate state and federal election ballots in favor of continuing to count votes by hand.
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Augusta man faces state indictment in child sex assault case
An Augusta man who pleaded guilty last month to federal charges of producing and possessing child pornography is facing an indictment for gross sexual assault.
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Man pleads guilty, third arrest made in CVS robbery
An Auburn man pleaded guilty Tuesday to the Jan. 22 robbery of the CVS Pharmacy on Stone Street in Augusta, and a third person was arrested as the alleged getaway driver.
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Ex-Monmouth teacher withdraws guilty plea, admits to lesser offense
Christopher B. Brown, 56, of Monmouth, a former Monmouth Middle School teacher, was sentenced Tuesday to a fully suspended jail sentence and placed on probation for a year for possession of sexually explicit materials depicting children under 16.
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Augusta philanthropist Elsie Viles dies at 98
Augusta philanthropist Elsie Pike Viles, who gave her heart and her money to support the things she liked, died Saturday at age 98.
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Court appointed lawyers for defendants scheduled to receive pay raise
Lawyers representing indigent clients are supposed to get a raise, but the start date and the amount remain fuzzy because of state budget woes.
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Board votes to fire longtime Pittston town clerk, sends residents into uproar
Members of the Pittston community fired back Wednesday night at the sacking of longtime Town Clerk Ann Chadwick.