Flags are lowered on Thursday in honor and remembrance of Iowa Senator Rocky De Witt, who died of pancreatic cancer on June ...

Stein ordered flags to fly at half-staff June 27 in honor of Cherokee Sheriff Detention Officer Francisco Paul Flattes who was killed in the line of duty Monday, according to a news release from the ...

Flags will be lowered to half-staff on Monday, June 30, in Arizona. Here's why, plus the difference between half-staff and ...

Corrections and clarifications: A previous version of this article misstated the flag position on Flag Day. They are at full staff. Flags in Arizona and across the United States were to fly full ...

Flags are flying at half-staff June 12 across Florida as a "mark of respect" for those who died or were affected by the Pulse Nightclub shooting. Forty-nine people were killed and 53 were wounded ...

Gov. Tony Evers ordered flags to fly at half-staff in Wisconsin on June 13 in honor of former Major General Jerome Berard, who died on Jan 27.

Danforth served two terms as chairman in 1999 and 2005. Evers signed Executive Order No. 265, ordering the flags of the United States and the state of Wisconsin to be flown at half-staff on June 7.

Half-mast means the flag is flown two-thirds up between the top and bottom of the flagstaff. Half-staff is the term used for flags on land, particularly in the United States.

The U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs said flying a flag at half-staff is a sign of mourning. Authority is given to the U.S. president and governors of states or territories to order flags to be ...

As a mark of respect for the victims, their families, and the many affected by this tragedy, I hereby direct the flags of the United States and the State of Florida to be flown at half-staff at ...