A former patient is convicted in the assault on a mental health worker at the state psychiatric hospital.
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 couple face drug, child endangerment charges
Kennebec County sheriff’s deputies allegedly find heroin, hash being processed and a loaded revolver in the couple’s Vassalboro home.
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Friend sues estate of UMaine professor
Daniel Toto, the only individual named in the will, says a $100,000 check should be honored.
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Maine police had been watching home prior to Augusta drug bust
Eight of 10 arrested Wednesday, four of them alleged gang members, appear in court Friday.
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Maine man pleads guilty to sexually abusing young girl
A deputy district attorney said the victim, who is now an adult, said Richard M. Libby threatened to hurt her and her family if she told anyone what he was doing.
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Judge: Woman led Augusta pharmacy heist
She could get 41 to 51 months in prison at her sentencing Tuesday.
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Special court called best fit for North Pond hermit
Christopher Knight spent 27 years in the Maine woods.
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Two new roundabouts at I-95 open in north Augusta
$13 million road network near the new MaineGeneral Medical Center nears completion
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North Pond Hermit to make plea on Oct. 28
Christopher T. Knight is expected to plead guilty to burglaries and be admitted into the Co-Occuring Disorders Court in Kennebec County, which allows for counseling and rehabilitation.
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In Maine, a crash in the night, a car in the bedroom
A Maine family escapes serious injury when an out-of-control vehicle takes out a wall.