AUGUSTA — The prosecutor wants Daniel L. Fortune to serve concurrent life sentences for his role in a machete attack at a Pittston home invasion that left a father and daughter with permanent injuries.
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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Two life terms urged in Pittston machete attack
A prosecutor asks that Daniel L. Fortune receive the maximum penalty for attempted murder.
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Fortune convicted in machete attack trial
A jury finds him guilty of all 11 charges in the Pittston home invasion that injured a father and daughter.