BATH — Despite a renewed municipal ordinance restricting the process, Central Maine Power will likely begin installing socalled “ Smart Meters” in Bath next week, a company spokesman said Wednesday. As of last week, only 67 of the city’s 4,800 customers had elected to “ opt out” of the Smart Meter program, spokesman John Carroll said. […]

BRUNSWICK — Kestrel Aircraft Co. officials said today that a manufacturing plant with 300 to 600 jobs originally envisioned for Brunswick Landing will instead be built in Superior, Wis. “We’ve decided to do the manufacturing of the Kestrel aircraft in Wisconsin,” Kestrel chief executive officer Alan Klapmeier told The Times Record late Sunday night, after flying […]

BRUNSWICK — The Brunswick Marine Resources Committee hopes town councilors on Tuesday will approve its request to open clam flats for harvesting on Sundays — on an emergency basis — to allow commercial shellfish harvesters to take advantage of all of winter’s scarce daylight. Councilor Suzan Wilson proposed the change, which if approved, would allow harvesting […]

WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. trade deficit widened in November for the first time in five months. Exports fell for a second straight month while imports rose to an all-time high, driven by rising demand for oil and foreign-made cars. The Commerce Department said today that the deficit increased 10.4 percent to $47.8 billion, the […]

TEHRAN, Iran ( AP) — Thousands of mourners chanted “Death to Israel” and “ Death to America” today during the funeral of a slain nuclear expert whom Iranian officials accuse the two nations of killing in a bomb blast this week as part of a secret operation to stop Iran’s nuclear program. The assassination of […]

BEIRUT (AP) — The head of the Arab League warned today that Syria may be sliding toward civil war, as security forces fired on thousands of people who poured into the streets in support of army defectors who switched sides to try to topple President Bashar Assad. Over the course of the 10- month-old uprising, […]

KNOX, Ind. (AP) — A man accused of stealing a police cruiser while handcuffed in northwest Indiana, then using the police radio to ask where to find the car’s cigarette lighter, has turned himself in after two days on the run, authorities said today. William Francis Blankenship, 22, was taken into custody late Thursday night […]

ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — A Russian tanker hauling much-needed fuel across the ice-choked Bering Sea to the Alaska city of Nome was just six miles from its destination this morning. The vessel reached the area late Thursday night but was waiting until daylight before advancing farther, U.S. Coast Guard official Adam De Rocher said. Daylight […]