Newsday Opinion received more than three dozen letters from Long Islanders over the initial refusal by Nassau County Executive Bruce Blakeman to lower the U.S. flag to half-mast to honor former ...

MINEOLA, N.Y. — A Republican official who oversees Nassau County on New York's Long Island has done an about face after seemingly refusing to lower flags to half-staff in memory of the late ...

United States flag code directs that American flags be lowered for 30 days after the death of a president, but thus far Nassau County has not taken part in the symbolic nationwide tribute to ...

Flags have been lowered to half-staff at federal, state and local buildings around the country to memorialize former ...

A row has broken out in New York State's Nassau County after Republican County Executive Bruce Blakeman allegedly ignored a request to lower American flags to half-staff on county buildings as a ...

MINEOLA, N.Y. — A Republican official who oversees Nassau County on New York's Long Island has seemingly refused to lower flags to half-staff in memory of the late Democratic President Jimmy Carter, ...

Nassau County Executive Bruce Blakeman said Sunday that American flags at all county buildings will be lowered at half-staff in memory of late President Jimmy Carter. Blakeman said in a statement ...

MINEOLA, N.Y. — A Republican official who oversees Nassau County on New York's Long Island seemingly refused to lower flags to half-staff in memory of the late Democratic President Jimmy Carter ...

MINEOLA, N.Y. — A Republican official who oversees Nassau County on New York's Long Island has seemingly refused to lower flags to half-staff in memory of the late Democratic President Jimmy ...