PORTLAND One of the first encampments inspired by the Occupy Wall Street movement is well on its way to being dismantled, though Portland officials decided Monday to allow campers another four days to remove 16 tents that remained on Monday. Demonstrators who touted their tent city in Lincoln Park as the oldest remaining Occupy style […]

PORTLAND (AP) — President Barack Obama is coming to Maine next month to raise money. The Maine Democratic Party confirmed that the president is planning to pay a visit to the Portland area on March 30. Spokeswoman Lizzy Reinholt says he’s expected to attend a pair of fundraisers.

AUGUSTA (AP) — So-called tax zapper computer programs that help tax cheats in Maine would be banned under a bill up for legislative review. The Taxation Committee on Tuesday afternoon holds a hearing on Rep. Seth Berry’s bill, which is aimed at software programs that falsify electronic sales records so businesses can underreport the totals […]

LONDON ( AP) — Prince Charles led ceremonies today to mark the 200th birthday of novelist Charles Dickens — a writer as popular today as he was during his lifetime. The heir to the British throne laid a wreath on the writer’s grave in Westminster Abbey’s Poet’s Corner, in front of an audience containing dozens […]

The Times Record reserves this space to correct errors appearing in our news columns. We ask readers who are aware of factual errors to telephone Managing Editor Robert Long at 729-3311. A report on page A1 of Friday’s edition should have quoted RVI owner Bill King as saying the company “sold 10,000 snowmobiles” since it […]