The Maine Supreme Judicial Court issued a 4-2 decision Thursday to support Christopher Knight’s contention that he should not be required to pay $1,125 restitution for the work.
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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Ex-Richmond man to serve year in federal prison for bank fraud
Howard Hoffman, 53, of California, accessed a Wachovia Bank account containing about $80,000 in the name of a person who died in March 2007 and changed the account address to his own in Richmond, court records show.
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Defendant in Manchester double murder case found guilty of terrorizing charge
The next hearing in the murder case against David W. Marble Jr. is scheduled for Sept. 20 at the Capital Judicial Center.
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Fairfield man pleads guilty to raping wife
Raymond R. Killam, 43, entered the pleas to two charges of gross sexual assault Wednesday at the Capital Judicial Center as his former wife and her family watched.
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Waterville man pleads guilty to sexual attack on 73-year-old neighbor
Mark D. Halle, 33, entered pleas Wednesday at the Capital Judicial Center to charges of gross sexual assault, burglary and criminal threatening with a dangerous weapon.
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Augusta woman to serve 30 months in prison on two drug trafficking charges
Donna L. Hall was one of seven people charged in November 2015 following an investigation by the Maine Drug Enforcement Agency.
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Police: Crack cocaine found in Pennsylvania man’s boxer shorts during Augusta traffic stop
Isaiah Dunham, 20, of Allentown was charged with unlawful trafficking and illegal importation of cocaine after a drug-sniffing dog indicated he had drugs on him, according to police.
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New York man, Augusta woman sentenced for drug trafficking
Toni L. Geisinger, 28, of Windham and formerly of Augusta, was sentenced to four years in prison after she pleaded guilty to unlawful trafficking in crack cocaine, which took place Nov. 24, 2015, in Augusta.
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Former St. Dominic’s Academy soccer coach pleads guilty to cocaine trafficking
John Brissette, 37, of Monmouth, was sentenced to serve 20 months in jail after pleading guilty to the charge.
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Augusta man accused in Monday’s Big Apple robbery
Bail for Abraham Matt, 30, was set at $5,000 Friday during an initial court appearance at the Capital Judicial Center in Augusta.