Flags are being lowered today and this weekend to honor fallen service members overseas and mark the deaths of public officials.

The Bellevue native was killed in action while serving in Kuwait as part of the U.S. Army Reserves.

Take a good long look at the state flag of Nebraska, everyone. Mark well its concentric circles crowded with golden text, its deep blue background, its central scene busy with contrasting colors. Then ...

Since 1895, the Alabama state flag has been a crimson St. Andrew’s cross on a rectangular field of white. The design was likely intended to “preserve in permanent form some of the more distinctive ...