Former President Jimmy Carter and wife Rosalynn visited a Habitat For Humanity community in Fairfield, Ala., Friday October 8, 2010 to help put the finishing touches on the home of Ted and Wanda Harville. The Carters worked on that house, visited others, and spoke to reporters. (File/AL.com/Joe Songer-The Birmingham News) bn bn

"When President Carter picked his chisel and started slicing through that mahogany to carve his name, a sense of pride overcame me.”

No, states are not required to follow White House order to fly flags at half-staff in memory of former President Jimmy Carter.

Yet in politics, he sometimes found himself cast an Old Confederacy racist, and he carefully managed relationships with erstwhile segregationists like Alabama Gov. George Wallace. “Jimmy Carter had as strong a rural, south-Georgia accent as anybody I ...

HUNTSVILLE, Ala. ( WAFF) - Former President Jimmy Carter’s humanitarian work made its way to Alabama. He was very active with Habitat For Humanity. A local man named Zan Elliott said he was able to work alongside the late President building homes.

Former President Jimmy Carter kept busy in the years after his presidency, and he wrote so many books that an interested reader might wonder where to start exploring the Georgian’s literary legacy. Alabama authors play a big part in a new book that provides an overview.

The Aggie Band and four other high schools invited to play, received the news after the ceremony was moved indoors due to forecasted low temperatures in Washington D.C. A high profile Florence attorney has been suspended by the Alabama Supreme Court ...

Ohio will join several other states in raising its flags to full staff on Inauguration Day, despite a nationwide mandate to fly flags at half-staff in honor of former President Jimmy Carter, according to Ohio Governor Mike DeWine.

When he showed up at the Chicago Tribune one day in early 1976, James Earl Carter, Jr., was announced by one of our young newsroom copy clerks as “that governor

Some states are raising the U.S. flag -- currently at half-staff -- for Inauguration Day. Nevada governor's office has not released information on what the order will be.

Together, the team tests and retests, produces, styles, and photographs thousands of recipes each year in the state-of-the-art test kitchen facility located in Birmingham, Alabama. For Jason Carter, one simple sandwich evokes special Christmas memories of ...