The men were ordered to serve an initial nine months and one day behind bars for heroin and cocaine trafficking charges.
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’s winter roads contract under fire in court from Reay Excavation
The company, owned by Linwood Reay Jr., says it deserves the contract as the lowest bidder and takes issue with several items in the bid opening and awarding process.
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Hallowell man held in lieu of $5,000 bail on methamphetamine-making charges
Police reported finding 17 one-pot production vessels in the basement of his home.
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Five hurt in two crashes Thursday on North Belfast Avenue in Augusta
One accident involved a four-vehicle chain-reaction, police said, but all injuries were reportedly minor.
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Augusta man arrested on child pornography charges
Joshua Harrison faces up to 10 years in prison if convicted in the federal case.
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Another bill for Belgrade Town Office means another special town meeting
This one is scheduled for 9 a.m. Oct. 15, and voters will be asked to authorize payment from the undesignated fund balance.
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Pittston man facing manslaughter charge in 2015 ATV crash that killed teen in Sidney
Alexander Biddle, 22, was driving a Polaris 850 ATV when it went off a driveway and into a ditch, striking several trees and ejecting and killing Halee Cummings, 18.
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Three former Kennebec County jail workers allege workplace discrimination
An attorney for the county said the allegations are ‘entirely false, plain and simple.’
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Electrical inspector to aid Dresden fire investigators
The focus has turned to longer-term housing options for the 13 people displaced by Sunday’s blaze.
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Suspect in big Augusta drug bust to face trial next month
Kashawn McLaughlin, 26, of Queens, New York was one of seven people arrested on crack and heroin charges following an Augusta drug bust that law enforcement officials described as one of the most significant in recent years.