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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PublishedMarch 20, 2017
Maine man’s bid for release denied by judge
Michael MacDonald was found not criminally responsible for his father’s death in 2004.
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PublishedMarch 19, 2017
Employees plan send-off for outgoing Sears store in Augusta
The Turnpike Mall site is among more than 40 retail stores being closed nationwide.
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PublishedMarch 18, 2017
Release of child’s killer stirs painful memories for mother
Sally Ann Schofield, convicted of manslaughter in the death of 5-year-old Logan Marr in 2001, is due to be released on probation next month.
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PublishedMarch 13, 2017
State denies newspaper request for court video of deputy’s ethical lapse
The record, which may show a marshal taking a cellphone photo of a defense attorney’s notes, is confidential under a previous judicial order, an official says.
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PublishedMarch 11, 2017
Alfond cancer center teams with Jackson Lab to create genomics research hub
The program in Augusta will let Maine oncologists share their methods and ideas for patient treatments.
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PublishedMarch 9, 2017
Alleged intruder in Richmond taken to jail after treatment for gunshot wound
Shad A. Hembree is expected to appear in court Friday.
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PublishedMarch 8, 2017
Police say 19-year-old severely beat her father in a drunken rage
Briana Rideout, of Whitefield, used a chunk of firewood and a fire poker in an attack that fractured her father’s skull in 2 places and left him with bruises and lacerations.
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PublishedMarch 6, 2017
Probe of Kennebec County security officer’s breach ongoing
The county sheriff’s office hasn’t announced policy changes since a member of court staff snapped a photo of an attorney’s notes.
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PublishedMarch 6, 2017
Augusta woman appeals 63-month sentence for tax fraud and identity theft
Joann C. Rittall’s case will be heard by a three-judge panel Wednesday in Boston.
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PublishedMarch 6, 2017
Augusta woman to serve 4 years behind bars for stabbing husband twice, once while driving him to the hospital
Tracy L. Fleischer, 35, was sentenced Monday at the Capital Judicial Center.
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