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.

Flags over the State Capitol and all state buildings will be flown at full-staff on Inauguration Day before returning to half-staff to continue to mourn Jimmy Carter's death.

In retrospect, Gov. Carter and then President Carter was a different kind of politician. His humanity, his faith, his compassion were always discernible. He said what he meant and meant what he said. In my 80 years, he was one of a kind President.

The former president said his background in science – nuclear physics, specifically – led him to question many traditional views of scripture.

Some U.S. state flags were ordered to be raised during Donald Trump's swearing-in, while others will remain at half-staff for the late Jimmy Carter.

Someone’s going to hell for that one,” one person commented following the actor’s hosting gig on the sketch comedy show.

In the White House press release, the president ordered that flags be returned to half-staff in honor of the late President Carter.

“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.”

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.

At the Carter County commission's first meeting since Mayor Patty Woodby fired emergency management director Billy Harrell, resident James Byrd submitted

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

Tuesday was the first time Carter County’s Interim Emergency Management Agency (EMA) Director Shannon Winters was supposed to provide an update after former EMA