The new MaineGeneral Medical Center will have up to 226 beds and create a regional medical campus next to the Harold Alfond Center for Cancer Care.
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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Four charged in former Maine gubernatorial candidate John Richardson’s donations probe
They stand accused of falsifying forms certifying they adhered to the rules when collecting money.
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Gardiner man admits shooting girlfriend
Kenneth Sirmans says he meant only to threaten her, a police affidavit says.
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Man pleads guilty in matricide
Kenneth McDonald’s plea agreement calls for a prison term of 25 to 40 years.
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McDonald pleads guilty to murdering mother
AUGUSTA – Kenneth McDonald pleaded guilty Wednesday to murdering his mother, abruptly ending his three-day jury trial in Kennebec County Superior Court. McDonald, 44, killed Janice McDonald, 80, on Aug. 24, 2009, in the home the two shared on Highland Terrace, Monmouth. He pleaded guilty to intentional or knowing or depraved indifference murder, and Justice […]
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Was son’s stabbing of mother murder?
The defense says it was manslaughter after a lifetime of abuse. A jury in Augusta will decide.
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Convicted killer loses appeal over questioning
A man who killed his mother-in-law fails to convince a federal court police violated his rights.
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Augusta lawyer reprimanded for ‘sexting’
AUGUSTA — A local lawyer has been publicly reprimanded by a disciplinary panel for his behavior toward an ex-girlfriend involving telephone and text messages.
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Winthrop police recover stolen guns and ammunition, identify suspect
WINTHROP — Police recovered all 34 guns and the ammunition stolen early Saturday from Audette’s Hardware store, and have identified a suspect in the theft. Winthrop Police Chief Joseph Young said the suspect, John Joseph Woodley, 49, of Winthrop led police to the cache of weapons. Winthrop police had summonsed Woodley on unrelated burglary and […]
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VIDEO: Suspect ID’d in Winthrop guns theft
Police have recovered all 34 guns and the ammunition stolen early Saturday from Audette’s Hardware store in Winthrop.