A New York student is suing after high school officials painted over a parking spot that she had decorated with a watermelon slice — a symbol of support for Palestinians. The ...

Hidden along the sunshine-drenched Gulf Coast of Mississippi sits a culinary treasure that doesn’t need fancy frills or ...

Gov. Tate Reeves has ordered all flags in Mississippi at half-staff on March 17 to honor three people who died in a medical ...

Flags engender such loyalty and pride, they often become very personal emblems with quirky or quaint nicknames: Old Glory, ...

Illinois voters prefer to keep the current state flag, earning 165,602 votes. That's disappointing, but not altogether surprising.  As I've written before, the finalists for the new flag were also ...

Nearby attractions include the hauntingly beautiful Windsor Ruins, the remains of what was once the largest antebellum Greek Revival mansion in the state; the historic town of Port Gibson, which Grant ...

JACKSON, Miss. (WLBT) - Gov. Tate Reeves has ordered flags to be flown at half-staff Tuesday for a longtime Mississippi lawmaker who recently passed away. From sunrise to sunset on Tuesday, flags will ...

Click here to see the submitted flags that didn’t make the cut. The winning design, pictured above, is from graphic designer Shan Rodich. Here’s what the symbols mean, according to the ...

Utah, Minnesota and Mississippi have all recently undergone flag redesigns, and Michigan is set to hold a flag design contest later this year. Utah and Minnesota both ditched flags with state seals on ...

Colleen Hayes, a graphic designer with Champaign-based Clanin Creative, is shown with its submission in the Illinois flag-design contest, which came in second. The current state flag of Illinois ...

Meet the new boss, same as the old boss. After 385,000 votes on a new design for the Illinois state flag, the overwhelming choice was to keep the existing ensign. "Some may call it an SOB — a ...

The American flag on US race cars is intentionally reversed to symbolize forward movement. This design follows United States Flag Code and is also seen on airplanes and NASA spacecraft.