Jimmy Carter’s 6-day state funeral begins with a motorcade through south Georgia

PLAINS, Ga. (AP) — Jimmy Carter ‘s long public goodbye began Saturday in south Georgia where the 39th U.S. president’s life began more than 100 years ago. A motorcade with Carter’s flag-draped casket began at the Phoebe Sumter Medical Center in Americus, where former Secret Service agents who protected the late president were serving as pallbearers…