The Maine Supreme Judicial Court heard the appeal for a new trial in the November 2013 killing of Jillian Jones.
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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Readfield residents question $2.3 million municipal budget proposal
The Selectboard will consider comments from the public in finalizing the annual Town Meeting warrant.
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2 Richmond men indicted, one on manslaughter charges, one in a home invasion
Kurt Linton is accused of manslaughter in the beating death of his father, and Shad Hembree is accused of twice trying to break into a couple’s Post Road apartment.
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Rochester, NY, man to serve 18 months for selling drugs in Augusta
Christopher Williams pleaded guilty Tuesday at the Capital Judicial Center.
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Augusta woman completes special court, avoids prison term
Michelle Barto received a fully suspended sentence on a drug charge.
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West Gardiner man with kidney disease challenges state decision to deny him disability payments
Terrence Marks worked for the state of Maine for nearly 20 years as a plow truck driver, but says his stage 4 kidney disease makes him too sick to work.
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Sex assault indictment against Oakland man dismissed
Joshua Adams Smith had been held for almost eight months on the charge, but after DNA was examined, he was released from jail.
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Portland-based developer proposes to build senior housing at Stevens Commons in Hallowell
If the plans by Community Housing of Maine are approved, it will be a large step toward redevelopment of the former Stevens School property off Winthrop Street.
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Belgrade town manager quits after 1 year to take New Gloucester job
Carrie Castonguay, who supervised the transition to the new Town Office, will start her new job May 15.
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St. Albans man charged in uncle’s death to face murder trial in November
Jeremy Erving, 25, has pleaded both not guilty and not criminally responsible by reason of insanity in the April 2016 shooting death of his uncle, Randy Erving, 53.