2004-03-10 04:00:00 PDT Patchogue, N.Y.-- The initiation rituals at the Masonic lodge here had been bathed in secrecy over the years. The climax of Monday night's ceremony was to be a simple prank. A ...

Hoover, Alabama police were investigating the motive of 33 year old Britton Clayton Traylor, a Christian author who walked into an area movie theater with a lifelike mask and bb gun demanding money ...

PATCHOGUE, N.Y. - They still greet each other with secret handshakes and use rituals that date to the Middle Ages. But members of the Free and Accepted Masons insist that none of their sanctioned ...

Think of Freemasons, and dollars to doughnuts the fez comes to mind. But what about false beards, turbans, helmets and chain mail? Worn in secret “degree” ceremonies and once seen only by initiates, ...

PATCHOGUE, N.Y. -- A man was shot in the face and killed during a Masonic initiation ceremony by a fellow member who mistakenly pulled out a real pistol instead of a blank gun, police said Tuesday.

Freemasonry has long had a relationship to the politics of both left and right. Bourgeois revolutionaries in France and America and modern mainstream politicians have all been members, as were some ...