7. Selma’s Morgan Academy student-athlete Caden Tellier passed away after sustaining a critical brain injury during a football game against Southern Academy on Friday. He was airlifted to UAB following the injury in the third quarter. His family announced his passing as they expressed gratitude for the support they’ve received saying, Caden, who was 16 and an organ donor, was known for his kindness and faith.
6. Alabama’s community and technical colleges have seen their highest enrollment since 2013, with over 170,000 residents pursuing academic and workforce training between August 2023 and July 2024, this surge highlights the growing demand for skilled workers and the role of community colleges in workforce development. The Alabama Community College System (ACCS) attributes this success to its accessible, affordable education and alignment with industry needs, ensuring graduates are job-ready.
5. Left-wing transgender activist terrorist Kyle Benjamin Douglas Calvert, a 26-year-old from Irondale, plead guilty, while the media yawns because the target was the Republican Alabama Attorney General’s office and the demographics/politics of the bomber. Calvert placed stickers with anarchist messages on government buildings before setting off the device, which he had constructed using nails and screws as shrapnel and now faces a sentence of 5 to 20 years in prison.
4. Shomari Figures, Alabama’s Democratic nominee for the racially gerrymandered 2nd Congressional District, spoke at the Democratic National Convention last week, highlighting the district’s civil rights history. His speech drew criticism from Alabama Senators Tommy Tuberville (R-Auburn) and Katie Britt (R-Montgomery), who attacked his support for Biden administration policies, having worked in both the Biden and Obama administrations, Tuberville called him a “swamp creature” and argued that his views would harm Alabama families.
3. Alabama Democrats finally call out their biggest enemies, aldotcom and Kyle Whitmire, who have only been carrying ever drop of Democrat’s water for almost 2 decades. Whitmire, wrongly, suggested that Vice President Kamala Harris wasn’t going to be on the Alabama ballot, so the Alabama Democrat Party released a statement praising the “journalist” with the most accurate name in Alabama media, Bryan Lyman, and his Alabama Reflector for getting the story right, “To be clear, the @ALReflector got the story from both parties and did due diligence in noting this is standard practice. The issue is here with the original tweet, which did what it was designed to do, whip up anger against the party and its leadership.”
2. Alabama Attorney General Steve Marshall, along with 15 other state attorneys general, has joined a lawsuit against the Biden administration’s “Parole in Place” plan. This plan, part of the “Keeping Families Together” initiative by the Department of Homeland Security, allows certain noncitizen spouses and stepchildren of U.S. citizens to request parole in place, potentially granting over 1 million undocumented immigrants citizenship. The lawsuit seeks to halt the plan, arguing it undermines U.S. immigration laws.
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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 and from 10-11 a.m. on Talk 99.5 and News Radio 1440, with a rebroadcast Talk Radio 103.9 FM/730AM WUMP from 3-4 p.m.
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