In the winter of 1993, specifically February, my husband, Clarence, planned a trip to Florida, Alabama and Texas to visit ...

President Jimmy Carter, the nation’s 39th chief executive and the first U.S. Naval Academy graduate to serve in the Oval ...

Many believe the ultimate accomplishment for any American citizen is to be elected president of the United States. Though in ...

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

Over the last two weeks, resources from across the state and nation flowed into Sumter County for the state funeral of former ...

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 ...

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 ...

Habitat for Humanity worldwide offered doors on which to sign remembrances of President Jimmy Carter, as Jan. 9 marked his ...