ORLANDO, Fla., June 18 (UPI) -- Officials in a coastal county in Alabama are defending their refusal to lower flags on government buildings to half-staff, in defiance of a presidential order for national mourning in the wake of a nightclub shooting in Florida that killed 49 people.
Baldwin County, Ala., Commissioner Tucker Dorsey told CNN he has ordered all flags to remain at their normal position because he does not believe President Barack Obama's order is in keeping with U.S. Flag Code.