Changes made to state law in 2011 enabled the prosecutor to charge Dwayne B. Stevens with a felony.
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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Maine weatherization company operator pleads guilty to tax fraud
Sentencing is postponed for Michael Turner of Albion to see if he can repay the state about $36,000 in back taxes in six months.
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Legislative committee says Riverview’s response too little
Hospital acting superintendent Jay Harper did not attend the meeting, leaving lawmakers to work from written responses to questions.
Posted inLocal & State, Politics
Democrats knock LePage for problems at Riverview Psychiatric Center
The administration fought back, saying Democrats were using people with mental illness to advance their agenda.
Posted inLocal & State, News
LePage, Michaud attend Vietnam War ceremony
Lepage calls veterans’ unheralded homecomings ‘totally, totally inappropriate’; Michaud says ‘it’s critical to separate the war from the warriors.’
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Gardiner drugstore heist turns into federal case
A Randolph man will be arraigned Friday in U.S. District Court for a Rite Aid robbery Aug. 21.
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Two face drug charges after Augusta police search home
More than $30,000 worth of heroin and other drugs are found during a burglary investigation.
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Maloney DA challenger says he won’t prosecute marijuana cases
Kevin Sullivan, running for Kennebec and Somerset counties DA, says he doesn’t condone pot use, but “condemns the use of tax money to prosecute it.”
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Attorney wants Augusta murder suspect’s confession tossed
Justin Pillsbury is charged with killing his girlfriend, Jillian T. Jones, last fall in his apartment.
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Augusta murder defendant seeks to suppress confession
His attorney argues that Justin Pillsbury was not advised of his rights and was too sedated to answer police questions about the stabbing death of Jillian T. Jones.