Some 9,700 patients received letters saying they owed the healthcare system money, but the hospital says it was a ‘technical error.’
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.
Pittston man pleads not guilty to manslaughter in 2015 ATV crash
Halee Cummings, 18, of Sidney died after the ATV went off a driveway and into a ditch, striking several trees and ejecting her.
Former corrections officer charged in colleague’s shooting in Vassalboro
The men were in a car in the parking lot of the Maine Criminal Justice Academy when a gun discharged, wounding Matthew Morrison.
Former Saco man charged in Litchfield store crash
His passenger says she was huffing Ultra Duster and offered him a hit. Then he passed out.
Man accused of tossing bedbugs at Augusta city workers wants jury trial
Charles Manning, 74, said in court Monday that citizens of the city would be a lot more understanding than city employees.
Augusta health agency asks court to review charges of MaineCare overbilling
AngleZ Behavioral Health Services contests a DHSS ruling, saying that the state didn’t properly assess the firm’s sample payment filings.
Fayette group wrestles with drastic drop in level of David Pond
The fact that the pond’s dam is in another town and privately owned complicates taking action.
Two of 3 suspects will plead guilty in 2015 beating death
The three previously had pleaded not guilty in the slaying of Joseph Marceau in an Augusta apartment.
Parents of slain Augusta man appeal denial of compensation
They say a Maine panel unilaterally judged their son guilty of a crime – the basis for the denial.
Burning abandoned Manchester garage leads to jail sentence
Timothy Overlock, 43, pleaded guilty Tuesday to aggravated criminal mischief.