At his modest ranch home, the 39th president was surrounded by a close knit circle of support of friends and family.

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.

Carter’s ride through Plains marks the beginning of one last journey, a trip that will mirror the path of his storied life.

PLAINS, Ga — Mary Mancus on Monday fastened a white ribbon on the front door of Buffalo Café in honor of this southwest Georgia community’s hero, former President Jimmy Carter. Mancus, who ...

The storm system that spun up deadly tornadoes across the Southeast will rush across the northeastern U.S. on Monday before another storm is expected to follow its path, bringing rounds of heavy ...

People traveled from near and far to Plains, Georgia, to pay tribute to former President Jimmy Carter, bringing flowers and personal stories. The news of Carter's death, nearly two years after ...

Gov. Brian Kemp declared a state of emergency in Sumter County, not for a natural disaster, but to allow state resources to help the city of Plains after former President Jimmy Carter’s death ...

PLAINS, Ga. (WALB) - Jimmy Carter’s hometown of Plains is back on the National stage as all eyes are on the small South Georgia town. The city of Plains is home to just over 500 neighbors, yet ...

Plains, Ga., had been bracing for the inevitable through the former president’s ailments and nearly two years of hospice care. Still, his death, at 100, “doesn’t seem real.” By Rick Rojas ...

This sign from Main Street in Plains, Georgia, thanking Jimmy Carter for all he did, was seen the evening of former president Jimmy Carter’s death on Sunday, Dec. 29, 2024. Carter died in his ...

PLAINS, Ga. — To the world, he was a former president and global humanitarian. But here in this quiet Southern town, Jimmy Carter was something altogether more — a Sunday school teacher, a ...

PLAINS, Ga. − From Dollar General to the local high school, Americans had words of admiration in Jimmy Carter's hometown for a local hero who became president and leader of the free world and ...