The appeal of Claudia G. Viles is being considered by the Maine Supreme Court.
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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Did police use ‘excessive friendliness’? Maine high court hears that argument
The case is made by a man convicted of sexual assault of a child, who says his statements to police shouldn’t have been allowed at trial.
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Riverview patient committed for 1969 killing in Portland asks for release
An attorney for Donald Beauchene, 73, said Tuesday he hasn’t been violent in nearly 40 years and should be let out of the state psychiatric hospital.
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Augusta woman who embezzled $400,000 from paper group ordered to keep paying restitution
Wendy L. Gagne is ordered to pay $200 a month toward the balance of $352,082, after her payments stopped in 2009.
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Maine supreme court to hear appeals in high-profile cases
They include the Anson treasurer convicted of embezzlement, and a child sex abuse sentence.
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State trust fund from Logan Marr’s death to pay for sister’s college
Bailey Charest, now an honor student at Lewiston High School, was in the foster home in Chelsea where her 5-year-old sister was killed in 2001.
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Phoning girlfriend from Augusta jail costs inmate 20 months
Derek D. Taylor, 33, of Norridgewock, pleaded guilty Wednesday in Augusta to violating conditions of release.
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Belgrade man who admits sexually abusing children to serve more than 6 years in jail
Jacob Hastings, 28, was sentenced Tuesday at the Capital Judicial Center, where family members of the victims gathered to watch the proceeding.
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Winthrop woman who killed 67-year-old in crash tells judge, ‘I’m not a lost cause’
Alyssa Marcellino, 25, is heading back to jail for six months after violating the terms of her probation imposed after she was convicted of causing a fatal Monmouth crash in 2014.
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Skowhegan motorcyclist dies in Monmouth crash
Authorities are still trying to locate the next of kin for Robert Dale Saveall, 68, police said.