The motorcade for President Jimmy Carter’s funeral began in Americus, Ga., a town of about 15,000 near Carter’s hometown of Plains, Ga. As I watched the current and former Secret Service ...

PLAINS, Ga. (WRBL ... Back in late September when Hurricane Helene took aim on Georgia, Americus was spared when it turned east. But Valdosta got hammered. Sumter Fire and Rescue Chief ...

Authentic. Peacemaker. Humanitarian. These are a few of the words students and professors at the University of Georgia used ...

Wright grew up in Plains and attended Georgia Southwestern State University in Americus, Georgia, with Chip Carter, Jimmy Carter’s son. Mattie Wright, a 73-year-old Albany resident, visited ...

AMERICUS, Ga. (WALB) - Jason Greene ... Kimberly told WALB that a Plains police officer picked him up while he was wandering around town and dropped him off in Preston, where Kimberly currently ...

The National Park Service released the first public images on Friday of former President Jimmy Carter and first lady Rosalynn Carter's final resting place.

She thinks Plains now has an opportunity to become like Warm Springs, the small Georgia town so frequented ... Jones lives in Americus, a neighboring city, but has already noticed people coming ...

During his rise to political prominence, the country heard many stories about his background as a peanut farmer from Plains and interest about agriculture in the state grew. Not coincidentally, that ...

PLAINS, Ga. — The crowds have left Plains ... In 2001, Wise and the Plains Historical Preservation Trust, along with Americus Housing Authority, began working to turn the apartment into a ...