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.

A few Saturdays ago, several families worked at Sunset Middle School to get the football field ready for the upcoming season. The coach tasked my family with cleaning up around the scoreboard. He also ...

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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 ...

Jay Carey, a Western North Carolina veteran arrested after burning an American flag near the White House last month, pleaded not guilty Sept. 17 to the two federal misdemeanor charges he's facing ...

President Donald Trump’s executive order to criminalize burning the American flag isn’t the first Republican effort to ban the provocative protest. In fact, the party came within a single vote of ...

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 ...

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