Kennebec County Sheriff’s deputies reported that Jess Legendre, 31, appeared to be suffering from a heroin overdose and that emergency crews administrated Narcan to revive him.
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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Litchfield woman’s son, 15, among 3 boys charged in murder
Juvenile petitions filed in court Monday identified Kimberly Mironovas’ son, Lukas Mironovas, 15, of Litchfield, and two other boys as being involved in the woman’s stabbing and strangling death.
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Newly discovered plane parts rekindle tale of Waterville man bailing out of WWII bomber over France
A military history buff in France used a metal detector and believes he has some debris from crashed aircraft from which Alfred Kramer, now 97, bailed from in 1943.
Posted inCops & Courts, Local & State, Maine Crime
Video: Franklin County man to spend at least 6 years in prison for drug-involved shooting
Timothy Danforth fatally shot Michael Reis nearly 2 years ago outside Danforth’s father’s mobile home in Wilton in a dispute that involved a $200 marijuana debt.
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Augusta woman presented flag marking her new American citizenship
Nattamon Dumont works three jobs to be able to afford to travel to her native Thailand each year to visit friends and relatives.
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Video: Flag-bearing Second Amendment supporters rally at State House
The open mic in Augusta allowed a number of people to say why they wanted no interference with gun rights.
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Augusta man accused of violating probation for OUI manslaughter
Roger Linton was charged with heroin possession after he was “found unconscious having overdosed on heroin at a Hannaford supermarket,” the prosecutor said.
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In Augusta, Second Amendment supporters to rally in gun-free zone
State rules prohibit carrying firearms on state-owned and -controlled property in the capital, a message that got muddied Thursday as national organizers encouraged people to bring unloaded firearms to rallies in other states.
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Whitefield woman charged with OUI in crash that damaged cemetery gravestones
Katelyn N. Jacques, 19, has been issued summonses charging her with operating under the influence and other offenses related to the crash on Grand Army Road in Whitefield.
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Pennsylvania man sentenced to 100 days in jail for high-speed chase in central Maine
Robert E. Rohwer, 33, now will be taken back to his home state to face fraud charges alleging the loss of about $500,000, officials said.