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, NY — Nassau County is set to honor President Jimmy Carter this week. It's an update from last week when a Democratic county legislator complained about flags not being lowered in the ...

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 ...

Flags have been lowered to half-staff at federal, state and local buildings around the country to memorialize former President Jimmy Carter — but not in Nassau County, where County Executive Bruce ...

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 ...

“The flags in Nassau County will be at half-staff for President Carter from the commencement of Lying in State on January 7th through burial on January 9th,” Nassau County Executive Bruce Blakeman ...