April Berends started the new year with a new liver, and encourages everyone she encounters to sign up as a donor.
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.
Family of Maine teen killed in ATV crash sues
The family of the boy who was killed is seeking damages from the mother of the teenage driver of the car involved.
Winthrop woman charged with hitting man in face with ax
Police say Tiffany M. Bragg hit the father of her children during an argument.
Body pulled from the Kennebec River identified as Augusta woman
Kelly Voytasko had been reported missing in late March shortly after witnesses saw a woman step off the ice and into the open river.
Maine Medical gets a ‘C’ for hospital safety
The Leapfrog Group gives Mercy Hospital a ‘B’ in rankings that reflect errors, injuries and infections.
Manslaughter charges dropped against Scarborough man in Winthrop crash
Jeffrey E. Ray admits to two civil violations and his license will be suspended for three years.
Former Litchfield woman pleads guilty to sex trafficking charges
Gretchen L. Patrick can withdraw her guilty plea to attempted aggravated sex trafficking if she complies with conditions for the next 18 months.
Augusta man who failed to report to jail gets caught in State Police parking lot
Raymond A. McCray was found driving on a suspended license in front of Maine State Police Headquarters.
Prosecutor mulls charges in alleged Augusta Walmart kidnapping case
The incident allegedly began in Lisbon and continued in Augusta, where police arrested a Lewiston man on Wednesday.
Augusta woman who burglarized Travis Mills’ Manchester home is sentenced
Tiffany Fitzpatrick will spend nine months behind bars after stealing from the under-construction home belonging to the quadruple-amputee veteran.