AUGUSTA — A China man will spend the next 15 years in prison for a drunken late night sexual attack on a neighbor whose husband had just left for work.
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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District attorney seat stays open after only one name submitted
AUGUSTA — State Rep. Maeghan Maloney has been nominated as interim district attorney for Kennebec and Somerset counties, and she wants that job, but the governor has yet to make the appointment.
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LePage wants another option for district attorney
AUGUSTA — State Rep. Maeghan Maloney’s been nominated as interim district attorney for Kennebec and Somerset counties and she wants that job, but the governor has yet to make the appointment.
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Sudden end for Augusta publication
AUGUSTA — The Capital Weekly — which had circulated in greater Augusta for 17 years — three sister publications and an entertainment magazine ceased abruptly Friday.
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Guilty plea for Wintle
AUGUSTA — A former state legislator will spend 45 days in jail for pulling a gun on a stranger last May in a parking lot in Waterville.
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Wintle facing 45 days in jail
AUGUSTA — A former state legislator will spend 45 days in jail for pulling a gun on a stranger last May in a parking lot in Waterville.
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Ex-teacher sentenced in child porn
AUGUSTA — A former teacher at Monmouth Middle School pleaded guilty Wednesday to possession of sexually explicit materials and theft of a school laptop that contained photographs of nude children, though none who were local.
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Floridian admits hitting pedestrian, running
AUGUSTA — A Florida man admitted in court Wednesday to driving drunk and hitting a pedestrian in Gardiner last summer, breaking both of the man’s legs.
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Waterville couple pleads in drug case
AUGUSTA — A Waterville couple on Tuesday pleaded guilty in court to trafficking in “eightballs” of cocaine.
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2 guilty of armed home invasion
AUGUSTA — Two men pleaded guilty Wednesday to participating in an armed home invasion last summer in Manchester where a woman was awakened by a man holding a knife to her throat.