Kyle Foyt-Bridges, 29, was killed while walking on Main Street early Thursday morning, according to authorities.
Keith Edwards
Staff Writer
Keith Edwards covers the city of Augusta and courts in Kennebec County, writing feature stories and covering breaking news, local people and events, and local politics. He has worked at the Kennebec Journal since 1995, having previously worked at the Camden Herald. He was born and raised in Winthrop and graduated from the University of Maine at Orono with a degree in political science. He is married and has a dog and cat. A lifelong Mainer, he enjoys skiing, hiking, canoeing, camping, and cooking out but spends most of his “off” time restoring and maintaining his 170, or so, year-old home in Richmond.
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Oakland man sentenced to 20 years in prison for child rape
Jeramy D. Hinton, 49, began assaulting a girl when she was 4 years old.
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COVID-19 outbreak reported at Augusta care facility
A total of 21 cases, 18 patients and three staff members, were reported in late July at Capitol City Manor, and the Maine Center for Disease Control is still investigating the outbreak.
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Augusta’s First Amendment Museum gets grant funds for exhibition design
Exhibitions are expected to highlight the freedoms protected by the First Amendment to the Constitution.
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Augusta offers city parcel for affordable housing
City officials hope Augusta Housing Authority can build at least 24 affordable housing units on a vacant lot off Bangor Street to address worsening shortage of available housing.
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Richmond celebrates prosperity, history closely tied to Kennebec River
History buffs anxiously awaiting Richmond bicentennial in 2023 kicked things off Saturday.
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Augusta bans large solar project developments for 180 days
City councilors are concerned about aesthetics as the number of solar developments in the city continues to increase.
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Augusta’s Bond Brook Road to close for repair
City officials expect the road to be closed at one end, for about a week, so a failing culvert near Mount Vernon Avenue can be replaced..
Posted inKennebec Journal, Maine, Maine Crime
Recycler pleads guilty to not filing vehicle titles at Oakland yard
AIM Recycling pleaded guilty to 17 counts of failing to surrender the titles of vehicles it crushed to the state, paying more than $41,000 in fines and other charges as part of a plea agreement.
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Deeds and research lead to discovery of lost historic Augusta cemetery
An abandoned city-owned cemetery found in the woods between Riverside Drive and the Kennebec River in Augusta contains graves of Civil and Revolutionary war soldiers.