Maj. Patti Murray and Capt. Scott Murray began their work last week after being transferred from Burlington, Vermont.
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.
Driver who left 5-year-old aboard Gardiner school bus lost her job
Superintendent Patricia Hopkins said Maine School Administrative District 11 has now added procedures to check school buses at the end of each run to prevent this from happening again.
Trucker arrested in Augusta on escape charge from Georgia
Drew A. Childers waived extradition at a hearing on Friday held at the Capital Judicial Center.
Augusta man indicted on federal drug conspiracy charge
Jason Folkner is scheduled for a hearing July 7 to determine whether he may be released on bail.
Deferred disposition offered to three charged with having more than 20 pounds of pot in Farmingdale
If successful, the defendants will return to court in two years and plead guilty to a misdemeanor charge.
Former Portland man ruled incompetent to stand trial on drug, assault charges
Ismail Awad, 28, will remain at Riverview Psychiatric Center but will be moved to a different part of the hospital.
Riverview patient who blinded himself pleads not criminally responsible to assaulting fellow patient
The judge said there was no place in the Department of Corrections or the mental health system for James Staples, calling that ‘a serious and shameful situation.’
Deportation looms for man convicted of drug crimes in Augusta, York
A lawyer on Wednesday sought a new trial for Faysal A. Mohamed, who is originally from the Darfur region of Sudan.
November trial scheduled for sheriff’s deputy charged with abusing girls
Kenneth Hatch III of Whitefield has pleaded not guilty to 22 charges.
Lincoln County deputy’s trial set for November in Augusta
Kenneth L. Hatch III faces 22 charges involving sexual abuse of girls and furnishing marijuana.