AUGUSTA — An inmate at the Kennebec County jail was found dead in his cell just before 5 a.m. today.
Sheriff Randall Liberty identified the man as Nicholas Michael Powell, 22, whose most recent address was in Lewiston.
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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Embezzlement trial scheduled for December
AUGUSTA — A former employee of the Maine Trial Lawyers Association, accused of embezzling $166,000 from that organization, will go to trial in December, a judge said on Monday.
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Unsolved: Winthrop murder remains a mystery
Brian S. Kowalczyk was shot at eight times — hit once — and then stabbed multiple times on the second floor of the geodesic dome home he shared with his wife on the shore of Maranacook Lake.
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Two women discharged from Riverview center
AUGUSTA — Two women found not criminally responsible for attacks on their daughters — one of them fatal — were discharged this week from state supervision.
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2 out of Riverview after daughters’ death, beating
AUGUSTA — Two women found not criminally responsible for attacks on their daughters — one of them fatal — were discharged this week from state supervision.
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Residence celebrates 10 years of assisted living
AUGUSTA — The interior brick walls of the dining room at the Inn at City Hall signify the earlier life of the 115-year-old building, when it was the center of city government and administration as well as police headquarters.
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Medical pot goes mainstream
AUGUSTA — Certified patients will use medical marijuana in an outdoor tent on public property as part of a trade show at the Augusta Civic Center this weekend.
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Medical marijuana to be used in open at event
AUGUSTA — Certified patients will use medical marijuana in an outdoor tent on public property as part of a trade show at the Augusta Civic Center this weekend.
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State finalizes purchase of counseling center
AUGUSTA — In another step forward for a new courthouse in Kennebec County, the state finalized its purchase Monday of the former Crisis & Counseling Centers Inc. property at Winthrop and Perham streets.
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Rights panel finds grounds for discrimination in cases
AUGUSTA — Reasonable grounds exist to believe two women were victims of unlawful job discrimination when they were fired from separate companies, a human rights panel ruled Monday.