The former Augusta man is serving a 40-year federal term for producing and possessing child pornography.
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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Mount Vernon to host tours of old, new homes this weekend
The tours, from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday, benefits local groups and helps celebrate the town’s 225th anniversary.
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Old Hallowell Day abounds with music, fundraisers, parade, stone carver, more
A Down with the Crown booth was set up not far from the high crown in the road on Water Street, which a state project is expected to flatten in 2018.
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Drug offense puts Gardiner man back in federal custody
Ricky Sirois pleaded guilty Thursday in state court to unlawful possession of more than 200 grams of heroin.
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Maine’s Law Court gives Rome man permission to cross neighbor’s property
Chief Justice Leigh Saufley said during oral arguments that it was clear the neighbors need ‘judicial assistance’ to solve their disputes.
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Case against man accused of shooting his ex-girlfriend in Oakland heads to grand jury
Jeremy Clement, 36, of Fairfield, is being held in lieu of $500,000 bail after he allegedly kicked in a door and shot Jasmine Caret, 33.
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Frustration with substandard housing led man to unleash bedbugs at Augusta City Center
Charles Manning, 74, said he often didn’t sleep at night because he worried about being bitten by bedbugs.
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Law Court upholds decision to keep man acquitted of murder at Riverview
Donald Beauchene, acquitted of murder by reason of insanity in the 1969 killing of Bernardine Israelson in Portland, has petitioned a number of times for release from the state hospital.
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Man who killed nuns in 1996 in Waterville dies
Mark Bechard, 58, who had been diagnosed with Lou Gehrig’s disease, died Sunday at a nursing home in Freeport.
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New Yorker sentenced to 12 years behind bars for drug trafficking in Augusta
The prosecutor described Kashawn McLaughlin as ‘a for-profit, armed drug trafficker’ during Tuesday’s court proceeding.