The National Transportation Safety Board has a seven-person team at the airport investigating the crash of a Bombardier CL-600 on Sunday.

Some committee members asked for courts and places of worship to also be covered in the bill, while some constituents went further, asking for restrictions for areas directly outside the applicable facilities. In one recent case in Maine, ICE followed a mother home after she dropped her child at school and then arrested her.

Political maneuvering by the Democrats hoping to unseat Senator Susan Collins shifted into high gear with the news that ICE had ended its surge there.

Since the ICE operation began, many immigrants in Lewiston have opted to avoid school, work and stores so as not to be snatched by federal agents. And even after the surge might have ended, Somali-American immigrant advocate Effrax Saciid-Cisse said,

Virginia Oliver, one of the oldest lobster fishers in the world who trapped crustaceans in Maine for nearly a century, has died. She was 105.

ICE officers arrested more than 200 people during less than one week of immigration enforcement operations throughout Maine, the DHS said in an update Thursday. According to the department, 206 arrests were made between January 20 and January 24.

Students in Portland, Gorham, Yarmouth and Lewiston have planned demonstrations Friday in conjunction with a national strike, while pupils at some Midcoast schools say they will walk out Monday.

The Democrats challenging Republican Susan Collins for her Maine Senate seat are seizing on a US immigration enforcement surge in their state to hammer the five-term incumbent even as she seeks to take credit for easing it.