Alex L. Brumfield, 29, was arrested Nov. 9, 2016, in Augusta after a confidential informant with a recording device purchased drugs from him.
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.
Broken pipe damages records at Capital Judicial Center in Augusta
Freeze-drying the documents is an attempt to recover court records that were soaked last weekend when a hot water pipe partially separated, and water flooded the records-holding area in the courthouse.
Fayette selectmen to vote on joining 2-town transfer station
If approved, the agreement is to go to voters at a special town meeting April 3.
New Yorker pleads guilty to heroin trafficking in Augusta
Reuben Givens was sentenced to four years in prison, and in exchange for the plea, additional charges of aggravated trafficking in heroin and aggravated trafficking in cocaine base were dismissed.
Ex-pharmacy tech in Manchester avoids felony drug conviction
A nurse, charged with stealing fentanyl in Winthrop, starts a deferred disposition.
Nor’easter slams central Maine, causes crashes, closures
Drivers reported white-out conditions across the region as nearly a foot of snow fell across the Augusta-Waterville area.
Gardiner man who broke into Manchester home sentenced to time served
Joshua Lemar took money and a pound of marijuana from the residents.
Clinton man sentenced in domestic violence threatening case
Joseph Gagnon drove away from the scene last August but turned himself in to police several hours later.
Escape from jail work detail in Augusta brings nine-month sentence
Nicole Dyment had been participating in a specialty jail program when she ran off last spring.
Bellavance denied new trial in Vassalboro topless coffee shop arson
A judge ruled that defense counsel was competent in representing him at his 2011 trial.