7. Alabama head coach Kalen DeBoer, preparing the Crimson Tide for a high-stakes road game against Lane Kiffin’s LSU Tigers in what analysts called a potential slate of the year with major College Football Playoff implications, said his team has been pumping artificial crowd noise into practices and walk-throughs until “my ears are ringing,” adding that the simplest way to silence a hostile stadium is clear: “There’s one cure: Score.”

6. After Democrats’ midterm victories fueled investor fears of tighter regulation on artificial intelligence and data centers, the tech-heavy Nasdaq plunged more than 5 percent and wiped out an estimated $2.5 trillion in market value in its worst day in months, prompting President Donald Trump to post on Truth Social that “the Stock Market crashed today because the Dumocrats had a big Tuesday — So sad to see, you only have yourselves to blame!” and that voters’ 401(k)s had dropped because “it wasn’t Republicans, it was Dumocrats.”

5. Madison police charged 23-year-old Alexander Schultz of Cullman with second-degree rape, second-degree sodomy, and traveling to meet a child for an unlawful sex act after a middle school staff member reported an unrelated adult male picking up and dropping off a student, with investigators using school footage and Flock license plate cameras to locate and intercept him less than a block from the victim’s home minutes before the school bus arrived, while the city maintains 14 such cameras amid ongoing debates about privacy, auditing, and a new sheriff with interest in a similar company and a spouse fired for misusing a law enforcement database.

4. The 24-member Alabama Senate Republican Caucus, meeting in Birmingham after the 2026 elections, nominated State Sen. Garlan Gudger (R-Cullman) for a full term as President Pro Tempore and elected State Sen. April Weaver (R-Brierfield) as Majority Leader over incumbent Steve Livingston (R-Scottsboro), she pledged to “work every day to keep our caucus unified” and promote conservative principles for the 2026-2030 quadrennium.

3. Governor Kay Ivey phoned Governor-elect National Championship-winning Coach U.S. Senator Tommy Tuberville (R-Auburn) to congratulate him on his hard-fought victory and the two released a joint statement affirming Alabama’s momentum and commitment to effective government for every citizen in all 67 counties, and Tuberville named his Senate Chief of Staff Jordan Doufexis as the first official appointment to the governor’s office, saying “he’s tough, he’s loyal, and he knows how to get things done.”

2. In Alabama’s 2nd Congressional District, where Democrat Shomari Figures defeated Republican Rhett Marques by about 7.6 points, not a single statewide Republican candidate carried the 14 counties wholly inside the district, with Governor-elect National Championship-winning Coach U.S. Senator Tommy Tuberville (R-Auburn) receiving the fewest votes of any major Republican on the ballot there, trailing Doug Jones by more than 22,000 votes.

1. Governor-elect National Championship-winning Coach U.S. Senator Tommy Tuberville (R-Auburn) won the governor’s race by 66,308 votes, 51.8 percent to 47.9 percent, according to unofficial returns, with Democrats gaining notably in places like Madison County, where Jones won by 16 points after Ivey’s 7-point margin in 2018 amid a 13 percent turnout increase, while Republicans held or improved in only five counties such as Fayette, Marion, Clay, Washington, and Hale, and Baldwin provided Tuberville’s largest margin anywhere in the state.

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Dale Jackson is a thought leader for Yellowhammer News and hosts a talk show from 5-9 a.m. weekdays on WVNN.