Michael J. Albert Sr. maintains in a civil lawsuit that his civil rights were violated when he was arrested.
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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Homeless veteran describes Augusta arrest in excessive force case
Michael J. Albert Sr. says he was injured, yet he didn’t resist arrest.
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DHHS says it responded ‘thoroughly’ to lab violations
An EPA inspection found 11 violations at the Maine Health and Environmental Testing Laboratory.
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Bidders win bargains, memories at auction of T.W. Dick contents
Gardiner’s city manager urges bidders to ‘own a piece of history’ at the city-run auction.
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State testing lab to pay fine, buy equipment for emergency responders
The settlement will resolve a claim that it violated state and federal hazardous waste laws.
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Man found not criminally responsible in Skowhegan fair fire to move into group home
Charles D. Miles will make the transition after serving a prison sentence for damaging property at Riverview Psychiatric Center.
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Monmouth man’s family sues Belgrade firm over 2014 fatality
Philip M. Coward died when a load of rebar fell from a forklift and onto him at the site of Mid-Maine Foundations Inc.
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Attorneys report on mental health status of Gardiner man charged in gruesome killing
Leroy Smith III, who is accused of killing his father in 2014, was ordered to be medicated involuntarily to try to restore his competence.
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Mental evaluation ordered for Augusta woman charged with child sex abuse
Loni D. Ingalls, 36, is charged in a case involving a boy who was 14 at the time of the alleged abuse.
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Judge rejects new trial for Augusta man convicted of murdering girlfriend
Justin Pillsbury’s attorney argued that a prosecutor’s comment carried a racial connotation and that the testimony of one witness should have been deemed inadmissible.