The statewide tally of unpaid criminal and civil penalties tops $13 million. Now the courts are calling them in.
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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Man pleads guilty to arson, burglary
Jeremy J. Judkins, 30, of Manchester will be sentenced later.
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Police seek Gardiner teacher on sex charge
Matthew B. Dineen, 41, a teacher and coach at Gardiner high school is accused to unlawful sexual touching of a student. He remains at large.
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Battling bullying: Education deemed key to halting harassers before violence occurs
AUGUSTA —Only a handful of bullying cases involving teenagers make their way into Maine’s court system each year. The top civil rights enforcer for the Maine Attorney General’s Office says he prefers educating youth to suing them, but sometimes legal action is necessary. “We step in when the behavior crosses the line into violence, threats […]
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State won’t retry Augusta man in sex offense case
Denny Collyer, whose conviction in 2006 was overturned by the trial judge, will remain a free man.
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‘If they have holy people… he’s one’
A Winthrop native keeps on working for missions in Haiti even while he recuperates from surgery.