Tag: plains
A storm will bring heavy snow and dangerous ice from the Plains to the East Coast
By Mansee Khurana The first weekend of 2025 will have the coldest air of the season, according to the National Weather Service. The first significant winter storm of the year will impact 62 million people starting Saturday afternoon and continuing into Monday. Heavy snow, ice, rain and severe thunderstorms will be unleashed from the Plains…
Jimmy Carter will have funeral services in Plains, Ga., Atlanta and Washington, D.C.
Stephen Fowler ATLANTA — Funeral services for former president Jimmy Carter have been released, spanning six days, three cities and multiple stops at places that held significance during his life. Carter died Sunday at the age of 100. In a release from the Joint Task Force-National Capital Region, the group tasked with coordinating state funerals,…
In Jimmy Carter’s hometown of Plains, people remember the former president
By Grant Blankenship PLAINS, Ga. — By late Monday morning, flags were at half-staff in this small downtown and the decorations were coming down—early. “This next week was gonna be our packing up Christmas,” said Jillian Williams, a fixture of the business community in this strip of shops by the railroad tracks where holly boughs…