Walker County News

The Birmingham-based Alabama Citizens Action Program - which refers to itself as the state's "moral compass" - gave its blessing Wednesday to Gov.

In a Tuesday, Jan. 6, 2009, photo, Dan Mann of Navarre, Fla., plays electronic bingo at Wind Creek Casino and Hotel during the casino and restaurant grand opening in Atmore, Ala.

Published: Friday, November 13, 2009 at 3:30 a.m. Last Modified: Thursday, November 12, 2009 at 11:08 p.m. MONTGOMERY Nearly every school system in counties surrounding Tuscaloosa County lost students this year, possibly to the Tuscaloosa city and Tuscaloosa County school systems.

A Haleyville man was killed this morning when the car he was riding in collided with a semi-truck along Alabama 13 in Walker County, Alabama State Troopers reported.

Everybody knows what this is: dozens of people, mostly retirees, hunched over paper grids in a smoke-filled American Legion hall on a Sunday evening listening eagerly to a woman recite numbers.

Published: Tuesday, November 10, 2009 at 3:30 a.m. Last Modified: Monday, November 9, 2009 at 11:18 p.m. NORTHPORT Long-time Tuscaloosa real estate executive Howard Garrison, 62, kicked off his first campaign for public office Monday with a 200-mile tour of sprawling Senate District 5, which includes western Jefferson County, northeast Tuscaloosa ...

Jefferson County Circuit Judge Robert Vance rules Walker County bingo halls cannot reopen during an appeal.

A Republic candidate for governor plans to call out Gov. Bob Riley Thursday on his stance on electronic bingo.

A Sumiton man who eluded about 50 area law enforcement officers during an April manhunt, only to be arrested in Walker County in July, was recently returned to Cullman County to face charges.

Walker County bingo halls employed 839 people, and dozens of charities relied on the revenue to fund their programs.

A judge who declared electronic bingo illegal in Walker County says he will decide within days whether to allow the games to continue until a higher court rules on an appeal.

It could take the Alabama Supreme Court six months to a year to hear an appeal of a judge's decision last week declaring electronic bingo illegal in Walker County, according to an attorney in the case.

A Walker County woman was killed Sunday in a two-car accident in downtown Birmingham, according to the Jefferson County Coroner's Office.

Bingo backers plan rally as owners of the electronic bingo operations head back to court.

Supporters of electronic bingo in Walker County are organizing efforts to get the bingo halls reopened after a judge in Birmigham ruled the machines illegal.

A large crowd of electronic bingo hall workers, charity officials and bingo fans attended a meeting in Walker County on Thursday to express frustration over the outlawing of the games and to learn what happens next, the Daily Mountain Eagle in Jasper reports.

Officials with the Country Crossing development in Houston County are complaining that a member of the governor's staff attempted to stop the shipment of about 1,700 electronic gaming machines from Nevada.

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

So-called electronic bingo machines in one Alabama county are being declared illegal.

With recent rulings on the legality of electronic bingo across the state of Alabama, developers of the entertainment venue Country Crossing are responding to those court decisions.