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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PublishedFebruary 7, 2017
Man gets 15 years in prison for beating Augusta resident with frying pan
Kristopher Russ attacked a man after breaking into his home to steal money and items to sell to support his heroin habit.
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PublishedFebruary 6, 2017
Man convicted of machete attack in Pittston asks high court for another appeal
Daniel Fortune’s attorney lays out his case as he contests life sentences in the 2008 attack.
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PublishedFebruary 6, 2017
Convicted murderer asks Maine high court to overturn conviction in beating death
Jason Cote asks the court to overturn his murder conviction in the bludgeoning death of Ricky Cole in Somerset County in 2013.
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PublishedFebruary 4, 2017
Man again appeals conviction in 2008 Pittston machete attack
Daniel L. Fortune, 29, seeks clarification of a superior court judge’s order in an earlier appeal.
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PublishedFebruary 3, 2017
Man found not criminally responsible for Vassalboro blaze
It was the second time in 13 years that Scott Audet, who has a history of mental illness, set fire to a home he owned.
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PublishedFebruary 3, 2017
New Yorker to spend 18 months behind bars for cocaine trafficking
Peter Hernandez was arrested in December 2014 in Augusta after police said they found a plastic bag on him ‘with 9 grams of cocaine base divided into retail doses’ as well as cash.
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PublishedFebruary 3, 2017
Lawsuits settled against doctor who allegedly groped women at Waterville pain clinic
The Connecticut physician lost his license to practice medicine in his home state because of incidents during treatment at MaineGeneral Medical Center in Waterville in 2012.
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PublishedFebruary 3, 2017
State seeks to prosecute Winthrop teen as adult in killing of parents
Police say Andrew Balcer called 911 from the family’s Pine Knoll Road home about 1:45 a.m. Oct. 31, 2016, to say he had stabbed his mother, his father and the family dog.
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PublishedFebruary 2, 2017
Augusta woman gets 30 months for heroin trafficking
Police say Clover Sue Baxter allowed out-of-state dealers to sell from her apartment.
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PublishedJanuary 31, 2017
Augusta man headed to jail for Gardiner arson
The blaze destroyed the camper trailer home of a family of five, but no one was home at the time of the fire.
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