David M. Devine pleads guilty, but has argued that the injuries were caused by the girls’ older brother.
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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Former Maine prosecutor argues to lessen his child pornography sentence
James Cameron’s lawyer tells a three-judge panel that others have received lesser sentences for the same crime, but the government says the sentence is within guidelines.
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Sidney child appears to have recovered after swallowing heroin
The year-old girl’s parents had since been charged in Massachusetts with using marijuana while the baby was with them, but the charges were dismissed.
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Sidney couple’s year-old daughter allegedly ingested heroin
Jason D. Thomas and Katie J. Robinson are charged with endangering the welfare of a child and unlawful possession of heroin.
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Kennebec County program aims to help women stay out of jail
The CARA program hopes to break the link between substance abuse and crimes.
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Winthrop’s ice sage: 2016 ice-out ties with 2010’s for earliest
Al Godfrey, 81, is keeper of more than 90 years of ice-out records for Maranacook Lake.
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Augusta jury finds Justin Pillsbury guilty of murdering Jillian Jones
During testimony Thursday, Pillsbury tells the court, ‘I didn’t intend to kill the love of my life.’
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Justin Pillsbury told police he ‘might have stabbed her,’ jurors told in Augusta murder trial
Pillsbury, who is accused of stabbing Jillian Jones after an argument, is expected to testify in his own defense Thursday.
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Roommate says murder defendant stabbed himself in neck on day of killing in Augusta
Justin Pillsbury’s girlfriend, Jillian Jones, was unresponsive on the bathroom floor of their apartment, and Pillsbury tried to kill himself, the witness testifies.
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Murder defendant’s blood found throughout Augusta crime scene, DNA analyst testifies
Justin Pillsbury, 41, of Augusta is on trial in the 2013 stabbing death of his girlfriend, Jillian T. Jones.