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FILE - Former President Jimmy Carter teaches Sunday school at Maranatha Baptist Church, in Plains, Ga., Nov. 3, 2019. Well-wishes and fond remembrances for the former president continued to roll in Sunday, Feb. 19, 2023, a day after he entered hospice care at his home in Georgia. (AP Photo/John Amis, File)

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Fond remembrances for Jimmy Carter after entering hospice

by Jeff Martin Associated Press, and Maysoon Khan Associated PressFebruary 19, 2023

ATLANTA — Dozens of well-wishers made the pilgrimage Sunday to The Carter Center in Atlanta, as prayers and memories of former President Jimmy Carter’s legacy were offered up at his small Baptist church in Plains, Ga., a day after he entered hospice…

A customer helps pumping gas at Costco, as other wait in line, on Tuesday, May 11, 2021, in Charlotte, N.C. Colonial Pipeline, which delivers about 45% of the fuel consumed on the East Coast, halted operations last week after revealing a cyberattack that it said had affected some of its systems. (AP Photo/Chris Carlson)

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Gas crunch lingers for many

by Tom Foreman Jr.. Associated Press, Jeff Martin Associated Press, and Ben Finley Associated PressMay 13, 2021

Greg Hatton, a hotel employee surveys the flooding, Wednesday, Sept. 16, 2020, in Pensacola, Fla. Hurricane Sally made landfall Wednesday near Gulf Shores, Alabama, as a Category 2 storm, pushing a surge of ocean water onto the coast and dumping torrential rain that forecasters said would cause dangerous flooding from the Florida Panhandle to Mississippi and well inland in the days ahead. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert)

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Slow storm drowns Gulf

by Jay Reeves Associated Press, Angie Wang Associated Press, and Jeff Martin Associated PressSeptember 16, 2020

People line up to board buses to evacuate Lake Charles, La., Wednesday, Aug. 26, 2020, ahead of Hurricane Laura. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert)

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Laura now forecast to be a catastrophic Category 4 hurricane

by Melinda Deslatte Associated Press, Jeff Martin Associated Press, and Stacey Plaisance Associated PressAugust 26, 2020

Jerry Parria uses steel cable and metal anchors to tie down four tombs belonging to his grandparents and uncles in a small cemetery near Lafitte, La., as residents along the Louisiana coast prepare for two tropical storms, Monday, Aug. 24, 2020. Parria said the tombs floated away during a previous hurricane. (Chris Granger/The Times-Picayune/The New Orleans Advocate via AP)

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Hundreds of thousands ordered to flee coast ahead of Laura

by Rebecca Santana Associated Press, and Jeff Martin Associated PressAugust 25, 2020

This Nov. 8, 2019 booking photo released by Escambia County Jail shows Ibraheem Yazeed in Pensacola, Fla. Authorities have arrested the man wanted in the disappearance of UFC heavyweight Walt Harris' stepdaughter. Jail records show Yazeed was arrested in Florida and booked into the Escambia County Jail early Friday, Nov. 8, 2019. He's charged with first-degree kidnapping in the disappearance of 19-year-old Aniah Blanchard, who was last seen at a gas station in Auburn, Alabama, on Oct. 23. (Escambia County Jail via AP)

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Suspect was on bond when UFC fighter’s stepdaughter vanished

by Jeff Martin Associated PressNovember 8, 2019

This March 11, 2019 photo shows a makeshift levee built by a resident in Rolling Fork, Miss., to protect his home from flood waters. In March 2019, scientists are warning that historic flooding could soon deluge parts of several southern states along the lower Mississippi River, where flood waters could persist for several weeks. (AP Photo/Rogelio V. Solis)

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Forecasters: ‘Potentially historic’ flooding threatens South

by Jeff Martin Associated PressMarch 21, 2019

Ashley Griggs, right, helps Joey Roush, left sift through what's left of his mother's home after it was destroyed by a tornado in Beauregard, Ala., Monday, March 4, 2019. (AP Photo/David Goldman)

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23 dead, dozens missing in tornado-blasted Alabama community

by Kim Chandler Associated Press, and Jeff Martin Associated PressMarch 4, 2019

FILE-In this Jan. 29, 2014 aerial file photo, abandoned cars at I-75 headed northbound near the Chattahoochee River overpass are piled up in the median of the ice-covered interstate after a winter snow storm, in Atlanta. A winter storm watch goes into effect at 4 a.m. Tuesday, Jan. 29, for Atlanta, a city known for its ability to grind to a halt even in relatively light snowfalls. (AP Photo/David Tulis, File)

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5 years after ‘snow jam,’ storm takes aim at Super Bowl city

by Jeff Martin Associated PressJanuary 28, 2019

FILE-In this Friday, Sep. 21, 2018, photo, Mercedes-Benz Stadium is seen in this aerial photo in Atlanta. The stadium will be the site of Super Bowl LIII on Sunday, Feb. 3, 2019. Legions of police and federal agents will be protecting the stadium as Atlanta hosts Super Bowl 53, but recent attacks in the U.S. and around the world underscore how terrorists are striking less-secure areas outside sports stadiums, arenas and airports, experts say.(AP Photo/Danny Karnik, File)

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Tight security inside stadium and out for Super Bowl in Atlanta

by Jeff Martin Associated PressJanuary 23, 2019