The other reason for the flags to be lowered in Tennessee is to honor the victims of the school shooting at Antioch High School. Shots were fired at the Nashville high school just after 11 a.m. on Wednesday, Jan. 22 taking the life of one 16-year-old and injuring another 17-year-old student.

Federal flag code laws say flags need to be flown at half-staff for 30 days after the death of United States standards.

Flags over Tennessee state buildings are set to fly at full-staff for the presidential inauguration of Donald Trump, putting a pause on the lowering of flags in honor of former President Jimmy Carter.

Bill Lee on Tuesday. Flags over the State Capitol and all state buildings will be raised from 11 a.m. on Inauguration Day through sunrise Jan. 21, before returning to half-staff to continue to mourn the death of former President Jimmy Carter, who died at ...

Kelly Armstrong, Tennessee Gov. Bill Lee and Texas Gov. Greg Abbott announced this week that flags at state buildings, which were initially lowered to half-staff following Carter’s death at 100, would fly at their full height Jan. 20. Flags will be ...

“On January 20th, the flags at the Capitol will fly at full-staff to celebrate our country coming together behind the inauguration of our 47th President, Donald Trump,” Johnson said in a statement. “The flags will be lowered back to half-staff the following day to continue honoring President Jimmy Carter.”

The former president’s passing is a remembrance of when a leader calls on the public for painful changes, writes guest commentator.

BERKS COUNTY, Pa. - In his one hundred years of life, former President Jimmy Carter certainly made a lasting impact. "Forget the President part, just look at the life," said retired Kutztown ...

Hospice advocates said the end-of-life journey of former President Jimmy Carter was a “powerful” message to terminally ill patients and their families about the benefits of hospice care ...

FILE - A girl holds a portrait of U.S. President Jimmy Carter in a market in Lagos, Nigeria, March 31, 1978, the day of his arrival for a state visit, the first to Africa by an American president.

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New York Gov. Kathy Hochul joined a trio of Democrat governors and a slew of Republican governors in ordering flags to fly at full-staff for the inauguration of President-elect Trump.