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A University of Alabama engineering student, a graduate of Auburn, a single mother, a father of two, and a former Princeton football star were killed when the driver of a white pickup truck sped down Bourbon Street, packed with holiday revelers.

The FBI now says a lone "act of terrorism" killed University of Alabama student Kareen Badawi on New Years Day. Investigators identified Shamsud-Din Bahar Jabbar was the driver of truck that rammed into a crowd of New Year’s revelers on New Orleans’ Bourbon Street. Fifteen people, including Badawi, where killed and thirty more injured.

The New Year’s Day terrorist attack in New Orleans is hitting home at the University of Alabama. Campus leaders report that UA student Kareem Badawi is among those killed when the attacker drove in a crowd on Bourbon Street.

An Alabama sheriff requested the FBI investigate possible civil rights violations after two detention officers were charged with sexually assaulting minors in a youth detention facility.

A Baldwin County man shot and killed by the FBI was reportedly assembling a militia that would answer to Donald Trump. Court documents identified the suspect as Alexander Randles and that his armed group would target Attorney General Merrick Garland among other officials considered corrupt.

A newly unsealed federal complaint says a man accused of having a machine gun at Tuskegee University admitted to firing his weapon during a weekend shooting but denied shooting at anyone. The shooting early Sunday on the campus left one man dead and at least 16 others hurt.

A shooting during homecoming weekend at Tuskegee University in Alabama has left one person dead and injured 16 others, a dozen of them by gunfire. Authorities announced an arrest on a weapons charge. The Alabama Law Enforcement Agency says Jaquez Myrick was arrested while leaving the scene of the shooting early Sunday and was found with a handgun with a machine gun conversion device.

Racist text messages invoking slavery raised alarm across the country this week after they were sent to Black men, women and students, including middle schoolers, prompting inquiries by the FBI and other agencies. The messages, sent anonymously, were reported in several states, including New York, Alabama, California, Ohio, Pennsylvania and Tennessee.

The Montgomery based Southern Poverty Law Center is responding to racist text messages invoking slavery. The notes were sent to Black men, women, and students, including at the University of Alabama and Alabama State University, as well as middle schoolers.

A federal program that provides aid and promotes justice for crime victims is extending support to the Birmingham community in the wake of a mass shooting outside Hush, a lounge in the Five Points South district.