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Following the reopening of Bourbon Street, people are leaving flowers, candles and other items in honor of the 14 victims who died.

President Joe Biden will visit New Orleans next week, with the city still reeling from the deadly New Year’s rampage in which an Army veteran plowed a truck into revelers.

The 42-year-old Texas man once impressed an Army commander with his attitude and work ethic, but over the past few years, his life began to deteriorate.

Bourbon Street reopened Thursday to a light crowd as tourists and locals veered away from the world-famous destination after an attacker plowed through crowds of revealers, killing more than a dozen people on New Year’s Day.

New details regarding the assailant of a deadly truck attack on New Year’s Day in New Orleans that left at least 14 people dead have emerged, NBC Chicago’s Natalie Martinez reports.

Midwesterners who celebrated the New Year in New Orleans are recounting their harrowing experiences during a truck attack that left at least 14 people dead. NBC Chicago’s JC Navarrete reports.

The Sugar Bowl kicked off Thursday afternoon under an increased security presence in wake of a truck attack that left at least 14 people dead in New Orleans. NBC Chicago’s JC Navarrete reports.

New Orleans had access to effective anti-vehicle barriers ahead of the Bourbon Street attack on New Year’s Eve revelers that killed at least 14 people and wounded dozens more, but the city did not deploy those barriers until a day after the carnage unfolded, and the head of the local police department said she had been unaware of them. 

A moment of silence was held Thursday before the Georgia-Notre Dame Sugar Bowl to honor the victims and those impacted in the New Orleans attack.

The U.S. Army veteran who drove a pickup truck into a crowd of New Year’s revelers in New Orleans posted a series of videos to social media in the hours before the attack, the FBI said Thursday.

FBI Deputy Assistant Director Christopher Raia said the man who drove into a crowd of people in New Orleans posted videos online hours before the shooting that detailed a plan to commit another attack on his family.

The potential link was just one thread being pulled by officials a day after 15 people were killed when a man plowed a pickup truck through New Year’s Day revelers in New Orleans.

President Joe Biden delivered remarks Wednesday as several other national and local leaders reacted to a deadly truck attack in New Orleans that left at least 15 people dead and dozens others injured. NBC Chicago’s Randy Gyllenhaal reports.

At least 15 people killed and dozens others were injured in a vehicle-ramming attack in New Orleans early Wednesday. NBC Chicago’s JC Navarrete reports from New Orleans.

Two Princeton University alumni and football stars were among the victims of the New Year’s Day attack on Bourbon Street in New Orleans.

President Joe Biden said Wednesday that his administration “will support the people of New Orleans as they begin the hard work of healing.”

Officials have not yet released the names of the 15 people killed in the New Orleans New Year’s Day truck attack, but their families and friends have started sharing their stories.

The death toll in a New Year’s Day terror attack in New Orleans has risen to at least 15, New Orleans coroner Dr. Dwight McKenna said.

Security barriers in New Orleans that were intended to protect pedestrians from vehicles but at times malfunctioned were removed for replacement before an attacker drove a pickup truck into a crowd along Bourbon Street Wednesday morning, killing at least 10 people and injuring dozens more.

Authorities don’t believe the driver behind a deadly New Year’s Day attack in New Orleans acted alone in what officials are investigating as a possible “act of terrorism.”