Betty Adams

Kennebec Journal

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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Mills murder suspect enters no plea

by Betty Adams

Originally published in the Portland Press Herald Thursday, July 19, 2007 His hands cuffed to his belt and his legs in shackles, a 20-year-old Newcastle man told a judge on Wednesday that he understood that he was being charged with murdering a former classmate. John A. Okie, accompanied by his attorney, did not enter a […]

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Machete attack trial: Deputy thought 10-year-old was dead

by Betty Adams

SKOWHEGAN – The deputy who arrived first at the scene of a home invasion in Pittston two years ago thought the young girl in the bed upstairs was dead. “Her head was split open like an egg,” Kennebec County Sheriff’s Deputy David Bucknam testified Friday, the second day of the trial of Daniel Fortune. “I […]

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Prosecution lays out case in Fortune trial

by Betty Adams

SKOWHEGAN – A jury today heard a prosecutor lay out his theory about why an Augusta man participated in a machete attack that left a father and young daughter seriously injured almost two years ago. Deputy District Attorney Alan Kelley said Daniel L. Fortune, 22, needed money for bail and he needed Pittston resident William […]

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