A group of about 20 protesters demonstrates against a federal mandate to purchase health insurance, the topic being argued in the U.S. Supreme Court today.
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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UPDATE: Woman found guilty in Blaine House protest
A Liberty woman is convicted of criminal trespass stemming from a protest last November when she and others failed to follow police orders to leave the Blaine House grounds.
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Trial begins for Blaine House protester
AUGUSTA — Diane H. Messer, one of nine people accused of failing to leave the Blaine House grounds in November, is on trial today in Kennebec County Superior Court on a charge of criminal trespass.
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State moves to bolster federal case against Swan
The state has dismissed charges of forgery, theft and accepting kickbacks against former Chelsea selectwoman Carole Swan so that she will face more far-reaching and serious federal charges.
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Ex-Chelsea official to face federal, not state, charges
AUGUSTA — The state has dismissed charges of forgery, theft and accepting kickbacks against former Chelsea Selectwoman Carole Swan so that she will face more far-reaching federal charges. Acting District Attorney Alan Kelley filed a dismissal in Kennebec County Superior Court on Monday. “The conduct we indicted her on is clearly contained in the federal […]
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Ex-Chelsea selectwoman, husband plead not guilty
Carole J. Swan and her husband, contractor Marshall Swan, plead not guilty to a series of federal offenses, including fraud and failing to report more than $600,000 in income.
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Thief gets 18 months for burglaries, extortion
Jake J. Pilsbury 20, of Somerville tried to extort $2,000 from an Augusta couple whose home he burglarized.
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Man gets 15 years for sexual assault on neighbor
The 34-year-old China man apologizes to the victim and to his family, saying he hated himself and was ashamed of what he had done.
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Waterville couple convicted of cocaine trafficking
The drug buys were made by a confidential informant who was wearing a wire to record the transactions.
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2 Augusta men plead guilty to home invasion
The incident happened last summer, in which a woman was awakened by a man holding a knife to her throat.