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 ...

President-elect Barack Obama’s swearing-in Tuesday will incorporate several elements out of America’s Masonic past. One-third of the signers of the Constitution, many of the Bill of Rights signers and ...

CENTRAL ISLIP, N.Y., March 10 (UPI) -- Members of a New York Masonic lodge grieved Wednesday over the shooting death of a man who was being initiated into the group. William James, 47, was sitting in ...

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 ...

What does the word Freemasons conjure in your mind? Practitioners of occult rituals? Old white presidents? Or perhaps, a polite term for the Illuminati? Tom Savini, director of the Chancellor Robert R ...

Jackie Mason prides himself on his scabrous topical material. The 72-year-old former rabbi has been on Broadway for 17 years with a show that dissects current issues with Swiftian savagery. Mason's ...