PLAINS, Ga. — Six days of funeral observances for former President Jimmy Carter began Saturday in Georgia ... at Phoebe Sumter Medical Center in Americus. Former Secret Service agents who ...

"I was immediately struck by how young he looked — not the drawn and pale president I had seen on TV, reporting on the ...

Rio Grande Valley-based writer and retired educator Samuel Freeman remembers President Carter as a champion of civil rights.

Jimmy Carter made a final trip home to Plains, to be buried near the modest house he shared with his wife Rosalynn for more ...

People living in Plains, Georgia are remembering the legacy of President Jimmy Carter after he was laid to rest Thursday.

Mattie Wright, a 73-year-old Albany resident, visited Plains Thursday to honor the late president’s push for racial equality ...

“After Friday we are just going to start settling back down and getting back to some type of normal,” said Lynton Earl Godwin, who is known around town as “Boze” and served as the mayor of Plains for ...

WALB will bring you up-to-date coverage of Carter’s state funeral and it’s a six-day series of events. Over the course of the ...

The state funeral began Saturday in Americus, Georgia and proceeded to Carter's hometown of Plains before the motorcade traveled to Atlanta for a ceremony at the Carter Center. On Tuesday, Carter's ...

After former President Jimmy Carter was voted out of office in 1980, he returned to his small hometown. Hear about how Plains, Georgia, shaped his remarkable life.

The 39th U.S. president will be laid to rest Thursday, as Jimmy Carter lies in state in the nation’s capitol for one final ...

Georgia Southwestern State University's President Jimmy Carter Leadership Program has had 84 students complete more than ...