Kimberly News

The Pelham Police Department holds a press conference on events surrounding the death of Pelham police officer Philip Davis who was shot on I-65 11:50 p.m. Dec.

UPDATE FROM 11AM PRESS CONFERENCE: Suspect IDa d as Bart Wayne Johnson, 29 or 30, of Kimberly Ala.

By Gary Palmer The latest rulings on the legality of electronic bingo in Jefferson and Walker counties raise serious questions about the legality of these operations in other parts of the state.

Country Crossing officials remain confident that the constitutional amendment allowing the development to operate electronic bingo would pass any legal tests, despite two adverse rulings to electronic bingo in other counties on Monday.

The Birmingham City Council made a mistake last June when it passed an ordinance authorizing electronic bingo .

Jefferson County Judge Scott Vowell has ordered the destruction of more than 180 seized electronic bingo machines.

Late this afternoon, Jefferson County presiding Judge Scott Vowell said electronic bingo machines collected in a raid in Kimberly are illegal.

If electronic bingo has become a plague on Alabama -- and, in our view, it has -- Jefferson County Circuit Judge Robert S. Vance Jr.

The North Jefferson Community Action League says it will ask the Alabama Surface Mining Commission for a review of a decision to grant a mining permit to RJR Mining Co.

The presiding judge in Jefferson County ruled today that so-called electronic bingo machines seized in 2008 from a Kimberly assembly plant are illegal gambling devices and slot machines.

A deadly stretch of road in Blount County has claimed another life. This time, a mother of two.

Tuesday night is senior dance night at Kimberly Community Center and Cletus Hopkins of Hayden and five of his friends play for the seniors Tuesday August 18, 2009 in Kimberly, Ala.

Birmingham lost 977 residents between July 2007 and July 2008, the continuation of a long exodus out of the city, new U.S. Census estimates show.