AUGUSTA — With some jurors claiming their counterparts were biased against the government, a mistrial was declared Thursday in the case of five people charged with criminal trespassing last November as part of an Occupy Augusta protest at the governor’s mansion.
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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More details in 2011 fatal stabbing
AUGUSTA — The sound of a crash roused Michael T. Young from a light, fitful sleep.
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Mistrial after jurors deadlock
AUGUSTA — With some jurors claiming their counterparts were biased against the government, a mistrial was declared Thursday in the case of five people charged with criminal trespassing last November as part of an Occupy Augusta protest at the governor’s mansion.
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More details arise in 2011 fatal stabbing
AUGUSTA — The sound of a crash roused Michael T. Young from a light, fitful sleep.
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Jury deliberates fate of Blaine House Occupy protestors
AUGUSTA — A jury will resume deliberating today in a case in which five people are being tried together on charges that they criminally trespassed at the governor’s residence as part of an Occupy Augusta protest last fall.
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UPDATE: Mistrial declared in Blaine House protest trial
AUGUSTA — A mistrial was declared today in the trial of five defendants charged with criminal trespass for allegedly failing to follow police orders to leave the Blaine House grounds during a protest last November.
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Trial related to Occupy Augusta protest is nearly derailed
The jurors involved in the case were questioned today about the distribution of political literature outside the Kennebec County Courthouse.
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Camden National buys 15 local banks
Camden National Bank is moving into central Maine.
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Camden National acquires Bank of America branches
Camden National Bank is moving into central Maine.
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30 months for man who stole, scrapped ATV
AUGUSTA — A Mount Vernon man who stole a neighbor’s ATV and used it to haul scrap before stripping it for scrap won’t be riding again any time soon.