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 ...

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 ...

PATCHOGUE, N.Y. (AP) — A man was killed during a Masonic initiation ceremony when another member fired a gun loaded with real bullets instead of the expected blanks and shot him in the face, police ...

Guns, a guillotine and mechanical rat traps played a regular role in a secret Masonic ritual that turned deadly for a Long Island man, police said yesterday. Initiates to the Fellowcraft Club of the ...

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.

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, Patchogue police said. Albert Eid, the ...

The secret induction ceremony in the basement of the temple Monday night was only supposed to frighten William James, a way to build trust between the father of five and his fellow members of the ...

Officers in the Metropolitan Police could soon be made to tell bosses if they are part of the Freemasons. The UK's largest ...