Charges against Joseph A. Deleskey, 38, include 16 felony counts of possessing a firearm by a prohibited person.
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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Medicare readmissions could bring fines to 10 Maine hospitals
AUGUSTA — A nonprofit news group that monitors the health care industry has calculated that MaineGeneral Medical Center — along with hundreds of other hospitals across the country, including 10 in Maine — will be fined for readmitting too many Medicare recipients within 30 days of their hospital discharge.
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School board request for money rejected by Winthrop
WINTHROP — The school board asked the town council for money Monday night to help balance a budget and left empty-handed.
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Medicare readmissions could bring fines
AUGUSTA — A nonprofit news group that monitors the health care industry has calculated that Maine General Medical Center — along with hundreds of other hospitals across the country, including 10 in Maine — will be fined for readmitting too many Medicare recipients within 30 days of their hospital discharge.
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For parents of convicted killer, family counts most
AUGUSTA — Supporting their son, who is serving 45 years in prison for murder, is the driving force behind a couple’s return to Maine.
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Timber cuts start of 10-year plan for East Winthrop preserve
WINTHROP — Timber cutting is under way at a 300-acre preserve in East Winthrop managed by the Small Woodland Owners of Maine.
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Convicted killer’s parents return to stay near son
AUGUSTA — Supporting their son, who is serving 45 years in prison for murder, is the driving force behind a couple’s return to Maine.
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Closure of Riverview group homes forces relocation
AUGUSTA — Enoch Petrucelly had nowhere to live except inside the locked doors of the state’s only forensic hospital.
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Riverview patients slated for new locations as group homes scheduled to close
AUGUSTA — Enoch Petrucelly had nowhere to live except inside the locked doors of the state’s only forensic hospital.
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Court rejects bias claim from VA benefits thief from Augusta
A former Augusta man imprisoned for stealing more than $47,000 in benefits from the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs has lost an appeal of a civil court claim that he was unlawfully denied a promotion within the VA.