Jacob U. Hastings reportedly told police, ‘I’m a savage; you have to treat me like such.’
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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Maine’s highest court hears Sidney man’s appeal in child sex assault case
An attorney for Eric Bard, 26, told the justices Tuesday police violated Bard’s constitutional right to be protected from illegal searches and seizures.
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Judge sets bail for 6 arrested following stabbing, drug raid
Defendants’ lawyers argue affidavits thin on substance, details of reasons for arrest.
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Panel supports Auburn woman in discrimination complaint against Manchester firm
But J&S Oil, represented by attorney John Lambert Jr., maintained that Lorraine Farris, 32, was fired for theft of a pack of cigarettes.
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Jim Mitchell of Vassalboro, judge of probate, dies at 74
Born in Little Rock, Arkansas, Mitchell was unfailingly polite, the epitome of a courtly, southern gentleman.
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State supreme court to hear Sidney man’s appeal in child sex assault case
Eric Bard is appealing three rulings by a judge in the case on Bard’s competence to stand trial, admittance of evidence found on a cellphone memory card, and the length of Bard’s sentence.
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New pharmacy opens at Augusta hospital, cancer center site
The two-story structure, which has a total of 9,300 square feet, was erected on land owned by the hospital, and the pharmacy partnered with the hospital in the venture.
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Former Canaan youth ministry co-director denies charge of unlawful sexual contact
A judge on Thursday imposed more bail conditions on Lucas Savage, 27, formerly of Clinton.
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New York City man to serve 6 years for cocaine trafficking in Vassalboro
Richard ‘Stash’ Baker was previously convicted of a felony-level drug charge in New York.
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Two sentenced Wednesday on drug trafficking offenses in Augusta
Donald Morang Jr. was one of three people arrested when the Augusta Police Special Response and Tactics Team earlier this year searched an apartment on Mount Vernon Avenue in Augusta.