A largely Democratic Connecticut town council has sparked controversy after it refused to fly the “thin blue line” flag for a state trooper killed in the line of duty last week. The ...

The flag was draped over El Capitan ... Get top local stories in Connecticut delivered to you every morning. Sign up for NBC Connecticut's News Headlines newsletter. Facing outcry, the ...

Laid-off employees who hung a U.S. flag upside-down at Yosemite National Park in a sign of "distress" said the action was a call to protect the nation's public lands from privatization and to ...