Derek Bonenfant gets 30 months behind bars.
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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Augusta police seek ID of suspect in Sunday store robbery
The Big Apple convenience store on Civic Center Drive was robbed Sunday evening, the second time in a little over two weeks.
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Judge acquits nurse of assaulting inmate at Kennebec County jail
Judge Eric Walker rules that Kimberley Arlene Vigue was following orders in 2015 when she administered a series of injections and a suppository without the prisoner’s consent.
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Winthrop teenager to be treated as adult in double murder case
Andrew Balcer, who was 17 at the time his parents were killed, said he was concerned his parents wouldn’t support him because of he struggled with his gender identity.
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Man charged with trying to kill deputy in Belgrade admits violating bail
The defense seeks to compel discovery about the officer-involved shooting May 19 involving Scott Allen Bubar.
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Belgrade man sentenced to 7 years for sexually assaulting 11-year-old girl
Travis Gerrier had entered conditional guilty pleas and plans to appeal rulings to the Maine Supreme Judicial Court.
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Winthrop teenager accused of killing his parents asked to be called ‘Andrea,’ not Andrew
Testimony that Andrew Balcer, 18, may have questioned his gender identity and feared his parents’ reaction, continued to be offered as a possible motive during a hearing on Thursday.
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Winthrop teen told police he killed his mother while she hugged him
In a recording played in court Wednesday, Andrew T. Balcer told a dispatcher that he had ‘snapped’ and didn’t know why.
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Winslow dogs’ euthanasia order upheld by state’s highest court
The two dogs were involved in a fatal attack on another dog in August 2016.
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Farmingdale man convicted of aggravated drunken driving in Chelsea crash
Rowe L. Palmer remains free on bail pending sentencing after a crash that was so serious, he and a couple in another vehicle had to be cut free from their mangled trucks.