Two Cony High School students keep a third boy’s head above water, get him out of the pool and call 911.
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.
Gardiner man accused of dismembering dad is found not competent
Leroy Smith III, 24, is being kept under observation in the forensic unit of Riverview Psychiatric Center.
Maine man sentenced to 32 years in killing of longtime acquaintance
Courtney Shea, 31, pleads guilty to stabbing Thomas Namer, an openly gay man he’d known for 20 years.
Prosecutor wants Hallowell bank robbery suspect held without bail
John Cecil Slater, 66, of Augusta was arrested in New Hampshire and has a long criminal record.
Augusta rapist arrested in Hallowell bank heist
John Cecil Slater, 66, has an extensive criminal history of offenses in midcoast and central Maine dating to 1978.
Suspect in Hallowell bank robbery is arrested
John Cecil Slater, 66, has been sought since the June 23 robbery of Bank of Maine in which a man showed a note that said he had a hand grenade.
Norridgewock man pleads guilty to sexually exploiting boys
Patrik Ian Arsenault, 27, of Norridgewock, faces related state charges as well.
Maine State Prison inmate loses appeal for good-time credits
Glen C. Harrington III is serving 48 months for eluding an officer in Kennebec County in 2012.
Waterville man says he didn’t kill 92-year-old
Roland L. Cummings is accused of stabbing Aurele Fecteau, who hired him to do odd jobs in May.
Gardiner ear-biter cleared of assault charges
A jury finds the defendant not guilty after he tells the court he bit another man’s ear in self-defense.