He had taught there since 1981 after leaving the White House and returning to live in his hometown of Plains, Georgia. As a Carter admirer who lived only 2.5 hours from Plains, I figured I’d ...

One Sunday morning in 2019, President Jimmy Carter asked the attendees of the Sunday morning service at Maranatha Baptist Church in Plains, Georgia to raise their hand if they had someone that ...

Plains, Ga., joins a collection of other small towns known for their part in presidential history. That can provide a steady source of tourism. By Christina Morales Reporting from Plains ...

PLAINS, Ga. (WALB) - The services honoring the life and legacy of Jimmy Carter may be over, but people from all over are continuing to pour into the small town of Plains to say their final goodbyes.

PLAINS, Ga. — The crowds have left Plains, Georgia and the town is getting used to a new normal following Thursday's funeral service for President Jimmy Carter. While residents are looking ...

“The USSS detail for President Carter has concluded its service after completing the evening return to Plains, Georgia and the 39th president's internment,” the Secret Service said in a statemen ...

The motorcade departed shortly after his flag-draped casket was removed from the plane and transferred to a hearse that took him to his hometown of Plains, Georgia. He and the Carter family ...

Jimmy Carter was celebrated Thursday for his personal humility and public service before, during and after his presidency in a funeral at Washington National Cathedral featuring the kind of ...

PLAINS, Ga. — Former president Jimmy Carter has been laid to rest at his home in Plains, Georgia. The beloved former president is being buried underneath a willow tree on the property of his ...

“He built houses for people who needed homes,” said Joshua Carter, a grandson who recalled how Carter regularly taught Sunday school in his native hamlet of Plains, Georgia, after leaving the ...

Carter, the oldest living U.S. president of all time, passed peacefully less than three months after his 100th birthday at his home in Plains, Georgia, surrounded by his loved ones. Following his ...

For the penultimate portion of the beloved former president’s funeral services on Thursday, Jan. 9, Carter — who died in December at 100 — arrived in his hometown of Plains, Ga., where the ...