The former president’s body is in the United States Capitol Tuesday, but come Thursday, he will be coming home to Plains and his final resting place. And the people of the tiny Sumter County town are ...

Think of Jimmy Carter’s life as a book. Appropriate, given he was a prolific writer. And yesterday was the last paragraph in ...

Thursday's services capped six days of remembrance for Carter, who died on Dec. 29 at the age of 100. Following the honors in ...

Saturday's procession begins in Americus before a brief stop at his boyhood home in Plains. The motorcade will then take Carter's remains to Atlanta for a stop at the State Capitol and a ceremony ...

Jimmy Carter, the Georgia peanut farmer who became the 39th president of the United States during ... longest-living president in US history — passed away in Plains, Ga.

Mourners began paying their respects to Jimmy Carter on Saturday, as a carefully choreographed six-day farewell for the United States' longest-lived president got underway. From there his body was ...

Then, his remains were taken to the state capital in Atlanta, where he was honored in a moment of silence at the Capitol before ... president of the United States − as Plains’ hometown hero.

Jimmy Carter, the 39th president of the United States and a former peanut farmer ... died at his home in Plains, Georgia, on Sunday, the Carter Center confirmed. He was 100. The news was first ...

The 39th president of the United States was laid to ... after his 100th birthday at his home in Plains, Georgia, surrounded ...

The final day of Jimmy Carter's state funeral begins Thursday in Washington D.C. with a ceremony at the U.S. Capitol before a ...

The former Georgia ... to ask the United States House of Representatives and the United States Senate to permit his remains lie in state in the Rotunda of the United States Capitol." ...