7. Alabama and Auburn are among SEC teams spending between $30 million and $40 million on 2026 college football rosters as costs explode, with only a few programs like Miami, Texas, Ohio State, Oregon, LSU, and Texas A&M topping $40 million.
6. Prescription drug prices fell 0.8% in July and are down 3.1% from a year ago, the steepest annual decline in more than six decades, according to the Consumer Price Index, with the Trump administration taking credit through most-favored-nation deals and TrumpRx.
5. A Huntsville high school grad, Brayden Rogers of Madison County, was among two Milligan University cycling team members killed when a vehicle struck the group on a Tennessee roadway by a man who has been charged with two counts of vehicular homicide by recklessness and five counts of reckless aggravated assault.
4. Leadership of the Family Guidance Center has remained silent after the online presence of Montgomery’s city- and county-funded anti-violence program was quietly erased following the arrests of two individuals on drug trafficking and distribution charges.
3. Governor-elect National Championship-winning Coach U.S. Senator Tommy Tuberville (R-Auburn) declared, “Data centers are the future,” and said they “will bring in tons of tax money,” citing a project expected to generate $1 billion in annual tax revenue for the Alabama city while defending their expansion against calls for a moratorium, which are increasingly popular.
2. Loudoun County, Virginia, has grown rich from more than 250 data centers generating an expected $1.3 billion in tax revenue next year, or 40% of the county’s total, allowing property tax cuts and new public facilities, while Alabama’s data center industry has ballooned past $63 billion in investment amid local pushback and political debate.
1. We got ’em now, President Donald Trump announced “Economic D-Day” as the U.S. unleashed the “MOST CRUSHING ECONOMIC OPERATION EVER TAKEN AGAINST ANY COUNTRY” against Iran, warning any nation providing a “lifeline” faces “TREMENDOUS Economic Consequences,” as the U.S. conducts a stealth operation transporting about 10 million barrels of oil daily through the Strait of Hormuz and maintains its naval blockade.
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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.
