Jimmy Carter's funeral proceedings began Saturday in Americus, Georgia, at the Phoebe Sumter Medical Center. After the casket was loaded into the hearse by current and former Secret Service agents who protected the late president,

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 hostage crisis that you could tell

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 than six decades.

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 — a lesson Jimmy Carter instilled in his son, Chip. Wright attended Georgia Southwestern University with Chip in the early 1970s. He used to talk with Wright and other Black students at the university’s student center.

“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 38 years until he retired last January. “The town has been anticipating this, and President Carter was anticipating it also.”

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 six days, Georgians along with the nation will ha

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 remains arrived in Washington, D.C., where he lied in ...

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 day before his six-day state funeral concludes tomorrow. After lying in repose for two days at the Carter Center in Atlanta,

Georgia Southwestern State University's President Jimmy Carter Leadership Program has had 84 students complete more than 15,000 hours of community service.