State trust lands generate millions of dollars for carceral facilities and programs every year, largely from extractive industries like oil and gas drilling.

He had taught there since 1981 after leaving the White House and returning to live in his hometown of Plains, Georgia. As a Carter admirer who lived only 2.5 hours from Plains, I figured I’d ...

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Republican President-elect Donald Trump will be among the luminaries at the funeral, before Carter’s body is returned to Georgia ... MAN FROM PLAINS Following the state funeral, Carter’s remains will ...

Elsewhere, the East Coast endured a thick blanket of snow while people from the Northern Plains to the tip of Maine shivered in ... The 47-year-old New Orleans native said it was in the 30s early ...

PLAINS, Ga. — Six days of funeral observances for former President Jimmy Carter began Saturday in Georgia, where he died on Dec. 29 at the age of 100. The first events reflect Carter’s climb ...

I can still see the Georgia red clay in Americus and Plains. The old folks used the ... simply stopped into the Walmart to pick up a few things. He was in blue jeans and a cotton, short sleeved ...

Still, for the longest time, the tiny town had something that no other place in Georgia ... many things that President Carter had his hands in,” said AB Jackson, a councilwoman in Plains.

PLAINS, Ga. — The crowds have left Plains, Georgia and the town is getting used ... he was downtown in the businesses doing things. He was just another person," Kights recalled.

“The USSS detail for President Carter has concluded its service after completing the evening return to Plains, Georgia and the 39th president's internment,” the Secret Service said in a statemen ...

The motorcade departed shortly after his flag-draped casket was removed from the plane and transferred to a hearse that took him to his hometown of Plains, Georgia. He and the Carter family ...