Federal prosecutors have filed two charges against Western North Carolina veteran Jay Carey, 54, after arresting him Aug. 25 for burning an American flag in Lafayette Park outside of the White House.

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Asheville-area resident Jan "Jay" Carey, 54, was arrested Aug. 25, after burning an American flag outside of the White House. Carey, who is disabled and is a veteran of the U.S. Army, pleaded not ...

An Army veteran who set fire to an American flag near the White House to protest President Donald Trump's recent executive order on flag burning pleaded not guilty Wednesday to federal criminal ...

I was able to spend a weekend in Washington, D.C., with U.S. Army veteran Jay Carey and the organization that he helped start, Resist and Persist, a group of veterans who are standing against the ...