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

A Republican county official on Long Island is refusing to lower flags to half-staff following the death of former President Jimmy Carter.

MINEOLA, N.Y. -- A verbal battle has broken out in Nassau County over Republican County Executive Bruce Blakeman's apparent ignoring of a nationwide request to honor former President Jimmy Carter ...

Republican Nassau County Executive Bruce Blakeman had to be shamed into agreeing to lower US flags to half-mast in honor of the late ex-president Jimmy Carter.

Republican Nassau County Executive Bruce Blakeman said flags will be lowered to half-staff to commemorate former President Jimmy Carter, ending a period of uncertainty over whether the county ...

NASSAU COUNTY, N.Y. (PIX11) – Flags are flying at half-staff across the country to commemorate former President Jimmy Carter — except for in one New York county. Nassau County Executive Bruce ...

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, ...

The image of Jimmy Carter standing on a desolate block in a poor New York City neighborhood in 1977 became an enduring memory of his presidency.

Nassau County executive Bruce Blakeman is lowering flags for just three days—a significantly shorter period of time than most other municipalities in New York State and across the country.

President-elect Donald Trump is not happy that American flags will fly at half-mast to honor the late President Jimmy Carter during his inauguration.

Nassau County Executive Bruce Blakeman ... Trump wrote that "because of the death of President Jimmy Carter, the Flag may, for the first time ever during an Inauguration of a future President ...