Robi K. Saputra, 21, of Topsham, was found hanging in his jail cell at 2:18 a.m. today by jail personnel.
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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Ex-firefighter pleads ‘not guilty’ to sex-abuse charge
AUGUSTA — A former captain with the Augusta Fire Department pleaded not guilty Wednesday to charges he sexually abused a young girl over a four-year period that ended in April 2010.
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Judge says pit bulls must be tightly controlled
AUGUSTA — Jackman and Hebron are dangerous dogs and must be kept securely confined or on a very short, very strong leash.
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Woman suspected in theft from lawyers association has felony record
She had been convicted for stealing from a school system when the lawyers group hired her.
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Gardiner woman accused of theft from lawyers group
Bettysue Higgins, 53, is charged with taking more than $166,000 from the Maine Trial Lawyers Association.
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Accused murderer in tears in court
David B. Silva Jr., 32, is accused of killing Robert A. Orr, 53, of Readfield, and then setting Orr’s house on fire.
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Readfield man was shot to death, court papers say
An affidavit says Robert Orr died while sitting in a chair in his home, which was then set ablaze.
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Animal cruelty case’s timetable questioned
AUGUSTA — An attorney for the owners of horses, dogs, pigs and goats seized from Fair Play Farm in Clinton last June says the state waited too long — 145 days longer than the law permits — to seek possession of the animals.
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Panel agrees with tenants on sexual orientation bias
A rights commission finds reasonable grounds that a Newport landlord treated a gay couple differently.
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Maine power line projectgives job market some energy
AUGUSTA — Job seekers and employers got together Tuesday at a job fair put on by companies working on a $1.4 billion upgrade of Central Maine Power Co. transmission lines.
The project, known as the Maine Power Reliability Program, aims to build or upgrade 440 miles of power lines and substations from Eliot in southern Maine to Orrington and Pittsfield in the north.
By early afternoon, Kim Parker of Clinton and Bruce Chandler of Bath were filling out applications at the “Become a Lineman” booth of the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers Local 104.