Matthew Brigham is charged with reckless conduct, criminal mischief and discharge of a firearm near a dwelling.
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.
Waterville man apologizes for robbery, then forges document and gets longer prison term
Emmanual Hurtado had altered his sentencing document a day earlier to show a two-year term for robbery rather than three.
Leroy Smith pleads not criminally responsible to charge of murdering his father
A jury selected Thursday will decide the verdict in the stabbing death and dismemberment of his father in Gardiner.
Winslow woman sentenced for embezzling money from veterans group
Cara Bird received an 18-month suspended sentence and was ordered to pay back $4,389 that she stole over three years as treasurer of the Winslow VFW Auxiliary.
Parents of slain Augusta man drop appeal to have victims’ fund pay funeral costs
Eric Williams was killed on Christmas Day in 2015 by a single gunshot to the head after authorities say he burglarized the apartment of David W. Marble Jr., who is charged in the killing.
Farmingdale man charged in 2012 pharmacy robbery
Investigators say Dustin DeGreenia wore a fake beard and twice entered the Rite Aid on North Belfast Avenue in Augusta.
Gardiner Legion offers redemption to bottle thief: Leave the money at back door
Someone has stolen returnable bottles twice in the last month, and the bottle money goes to local Scouts.
Pittston 16-year-old dies from injuries after Thursday crash with dump truck
Tabytha Hembree was described as ‘a sweet and wonderful young lady’ by those who knew her.
Crash on Civic Center Drive involves school bus, flipped car
Augusta school officials said no students were on the bus at the time.
Pittston driver, 16, headed to school with 12-year-old brother, hurt in crash
Tabytha Hembree and her brother Alexander Hembree were hurt Thursday morning when the crash occurred on Route 27.