WINDSOR — Maine State Police are seeking the public’s help identifying two men who appear in security photos to be siphoning fuel after hours from Moody’s Electric.
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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Three meth lab suspects appear via video in court
AUGUSTA — The purchase of an over-the-counter medication and the sight of a suspect “burping” a bottle in which police believe methamphetamine was being made led to the arrest of three men on drug trafficking charges Wednesday and a raid of the premises in Monmouth the following day.
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Police: Windsor fuel thieves caught on camera
WINDSOR — Maine State Police are seeking the public’s help in identifying two men who appear to be siphoning fuel after hours from Moody’s Electric, a fuel supplier on Route 17 near the Route 32 intersection.
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Heat affects probe of Monmouth meth lab
MONMOUTH — Two Maine Drug Enforcement Agency investigators and a Monmouth firefighter were overcome by heat Thursday while they were collecting and processing evidence at the scene of a methamphetamine lab.
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Heat impedes Monmouth meth lab raid
MONMOUTH — Two Maine Drug Enforcement Agency investigators and a Monmouth firefighter were overcome by heat Thursday while they were collecting and processing evidence at the scene of a methamphetamine lab.
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Agents raid alleged Monmouth meth lab; 3 men arrested
MONMOUTH — A portion of Cressey Road is cut off today as part of an investigation into an alleged methamphetamine lab. Three men were arrested Wednesday night on drug trafficking charges in connection to that operation, according to authorities. Investigators with the Maine Drug Enforcement are at the scene now at 307 Cressy Road along […]
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Crash victim identified; new US citizen, voter
The man who died in fiery crash a week ago in Somerville had recently become a U.S. citizen and had just voted in his first election.
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‘Ma’am, I’m going to need that note back’
AUGUSTA — The robber gave the pharmacist a black trash bag and a note demanding, “Give me all your oxy 30 and 15, I have a gun, you have 60 seconds until my partner comes in shooting.”
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Unsafe 4-unit apartment house now empty
AUGUSTA — All the tenants are now gone from a four-unit apartment building on State Street that city officials recently deemed unsafe for living.
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Augusta man pleads guilty to 93 crimes
AUGUSTA — A 26-year-old city man who committed 40 burglaries in Kennebec County and 53 other theft-related charges — for a total of 93 — pleaded guilty to all of them Monday morning in Kennebec County Superior Court.