Kenneth Joseph Maker II, 25, now of Augusta, was arrested in the Augusta State Armory parking lot.
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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Nationwide manhunt for ex-Maine prosecutor continues
Authorities defend their response after the initial alert that James Cameron had left his home in Rome.
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Augusta man gets 15 years for pharmacy robberies, other crimes
Shawn M. Merrill, 27, robbed two pharmacies the same day in Kennebec County and another in Somerset County three days later.
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Democrat retains win in House District 45 recount
Brian L. Jones, a Freedom selectman, remains the winner following a recount today supervised by the Secretary of State’s Office.
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Pittsfield Rite Aid robber sentenced to 3 years behind bars
AUGUSTA — Michael D. Klaiber walked into the Pittsfield Rite-Aid at 7:40 p.m. May 3 wearing sunglasses, a baseball hat covered by a hooded sweatshirt, sweatpants and gloves, and he demanded drugs.
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Newendyke keeps House 80 seat after recount
AUGUSTA — Rep. Melvin Newendyke, R-Litchfield, has retained his House District 80 seat following a three-hour ballot recount today. The final margin was just four votes.
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GPS device leads way to pot trafficker’s conviction
Police installed the device on the vehicle of a Litchfield man to follow the trail of the drug from growing sites to his home.
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Readfield slaying trial moved to Franklin County
Authorities accuse 34-year-old David Silva Jr. of fatally shooting 53-year-old Robert Orr in his home in February 2011, then set the house ablaze.
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Readfield murder trial moved to Franklin County
AUGUSTA — The man accused killing Robert Orr of Readfield and then setting Orr’s house on fire to cover the crime will be tried by a jury in Franklin County Superior Court early in February.
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Augusta man gets jail time for girl’s injuries
Brent Ryan Lavallee, 28, was accused of striking a 4-year-old girl and holding a blanket to her neck so tightly that it left marks.