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

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

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

Democrats are all ‘giddy’ about our magnificent American Flag potentially being at ‘half mast’ during my Inauguration. They think it’s so great” Trump posted.

Alabama Gov. Kay Ivey has ordered flags at state buildings and properties to temporarily go back to full staff Jan. 20 to mark Inauguration Day. Ivey announced the order Monday. Flags at federal, state and local government properties are now at half-staff to honor 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 ...

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.

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.

Leading a cohort of next-generation Southern leaders in both parties, Carter grafted the region back on the national map by repudiating Jim Crow, firmly and finally extinguishing George Wallace as a political force and assembling a fearsome, if fleeting, biracial general election coalition.

Eight states have ordered flags raised for Inauguration Day, even though it is customary to keep them lowered for 30 days after a president's death

Gov. Kay Ivey has directed flags at the Capitol and all state buildings to be raised to full-staff on Inauguration Day.

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.