A suspect fitting the same description flees with prescription medications from the second store.
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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In their 90s, women have to leave home in Augusta
St. Mark’s Home is set to close Dec. 31 after 144 years as a boarding house for women.
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Maine man pleads guilty to sexually assaulting girl, 4, and recording it
No sentencing date is set for Eric L. Bard of Sidney, whose lawyers have said he is too intellectually compromised to understand that what he did was wrong.
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Trial opens for Sidney man in child sex assault case
Jurors are warned of ‘terrible’ pictures and told the defendant has an abnormal mind condition.
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Defense warns jurors about ‘terrible’ pictures in Maine child sex trial
Eric Bard, 24, is accused assaulting a 4-year-old girl he was babysitting and recording it in Augusta.
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Carole Swan pays restitution quickly
The former Chelsea selectwoman was convicted of extortion, income tax fraud and workers comp fraud.
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Waterville physician’s medical license to stay suspended during appeal
A judge says there is ‘competent evidence’ that Paul Gosselin practiced medicine ‘after consuming a battery of controlled substances as well as taking medication for which he did not have a valid prescription.’
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Riverview nurse recovering after attack
Nancy Austin, 68, of Augusta, says she plans to return to work, but in a different unit at the state psychiatric hospital.
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Augusta man pleads not guilty in Hallowell bank heist
John Slater remains in custody since his arrest July 9 in New Hampshire.
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Riverview superintendent says specialists restored order after attack
Jay Harper tells lawmakers about the response of acuity specialists, who replaced corrections officers in Maine’s psychiatric hospital.