Lori Amber Roessner, University of Tennessee “I am a farmer, an engineer, a businessman, a planner, a scientist, a governor, ...

Carter’s long public goodbye began Saturday in the state where the 39th U.S. president was born, lived and died.

Jimmy Carter liked to eat at the Pit Stop in Thomaston, Ga. That was where the future president met a boy who would grow up ...

After the service, Carter will be flown back to Georgia, and a private funeral service will take place in Plains at Maranatha Baptist Church, where Carter taught Sunday school and where a funeral ...

"He was ahead of his time on what he tried to do and tried to accomplish," Will Porter Shelbrock, 12, told the AP.

The events marked the first of a multiday celebration of Carter, who died last Sunday at his home in Plains, the tiny town of ...

Funeral services honoring the life of former President Jimmy Carter began Saturday in his native state of Georgia.

Of the hundreds of folks who turned out on Saturday in Georgia to say goodbye to Jimmy Carter, many offered poignant comments ...

Following the state funeral in Washington, President Carter's remains will then be transported from the nation's capitol, back to Georgia, where a private ceremony will take place at Maranatha Baptist ...