Prosecutor: No state charges for teacher who stepped on flag

FAYETTEVILLE, N.C. — A North Carolina district attorney says he won’t prosecute a high school teacher for stepping on an American flag during a lesson on the First Amendment. Cumberland County district attorney Billy West told The Fayetteville Observer on Wednesday (http://bit.ly/2dkb0rf ) that the state’s misdemeanor flag-desecration charges are unenforceable because a 1989 U.S. […]