Ari Snider

In a written statement Wednesday evening, Pingree said a federal judge has ordered Immigration and Customs Enforcement to release 19-year-old Olivia Andre by Friday.

In an emotional scene at the Portland Jetport late Friday night, Andre reunited with her mother and younger siblings, and a crowd of friends and supporters.

There were 3,356 international visa students enrolled at secondary and post-secondary institutions in Maine in April - virtually unchanged from the same month last year - according to a Department of Homeland Security database

Two British men have pleaded guilty to illegally entering Maine from Canada, only weeks after they were arrested in a remote area of Somerset County.

On a Sunday in southern Maine, a man who asked to be identified simply as Pastor Antonio helps lead a multilingual service at an evangelical church that draws from the local African communities.

Tibbetts, an 18-year veteran of the warden service, was stocking fish in western Maine before his plane crashed in the town of Avon, according to the Department of Inland Fisheries and Wildlife. He was 50 years old.

A national free speech advocacy group is suing Immigration and Customs Enforcement over threats from officials and agents to collect information about protesters, including in Maine.

State and federal investigators have wrapped up an initial probe into the fatal explosion and fire at Robbins Lumber in Searsmont earlier this month.

But Maine Secretary of State Shenna Bellows said her department is still issuing plates to other federal law enforcement branches, just not to ICE.

The Trump administration is now requiring some green card applicants to apply from their home countries, even if they've been living in the U.S. on a valid visa, according to a policy memo published last week.