AUGUSTA — Caught in the act of burglarizing vehicles in the owners’ driveway in Vassalboro, Anthony Lee Mann fled to his pickup truck and sped past that same driveway as the homeowner ran outdoors.
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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Grand jury indicts suspect on theft, extortion charges
AUGUSTA — A burglary suspect who allegedly tried to extort the homeowners afterward was indicted Thursday on seven charges by a grand jury in Kennebec County Superior Court.
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Clinton man admits to theft that ends in crash
AUGUSTA — Caught in the act of burglarizing vehicles in the owner’s driveway in Vassalboro, Anthony Lee Mann fled to his pickup truck and sped past that same driveway as the homeowner ran outdoors.
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Suspect indicted in alleged Augusta burglary, extortion
AUGUSTA — A burglary suspect who allegedly tried to extort the homeowners afterward was indicted Thursday on seven charges by a grand jury in Kennebec County Superior Court.
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Bellavance continues to contest charges
Raymond Bellavance appeared in Kennebec County Superior Court Wednesday, two weeks before he is scheduled to go on trial on charges of burning down the Grand View Topless Coffee Shop in 2009, trying to get those arson charges dismissed.
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Panel revokes state trooper’s certification
AUGUSTA — Retired Maine State Police Trooper Mark Sawyer has lost his right to be a law enforcement officer in Maine.
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Man accused in topless coffee shop fire seeks dismissal
Raymond Bellavance appeared in Kennebec County Superior Court Wednesday, two weeks before he is scheduled to go on trial on charges of burning down the Grand View Topless Coffee Shop in 2009, trying to get those arson charges dismissed. Several inmates testified before Justice Michaela Murphy that law enforcement officers questioned them about whether Bellavance […]
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Former legislator pleads not guilty in Waterville gun incident
AUGUSTA — A former state legislator formally entered not guilty pleas Tuesday to an indictment accusing him of pointing a gun at a man in a Waterville parking lot last May.
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Ex-Monmouth teacher denies child porn charge
AUGUSTA — A former Monmouth Middle School fifth grade teacher on Tuesday denied a charge that he had school laptops loaded with photographs depicting nude children in sexually explicit positions.
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Wintle pleads not guilty
AUGUSTA — A former state legislator formally entered not guilty pleas Tuesday to an indictment accusing him of pointing a gun at a man in a Waterville parking lot last May.