DKIRBY a Bargain Mom Facebook fan mentioned Hobby Lobby is having a 50 percent off sale on most of their Christmas decorations.

Whether you think the problem is the perpetual push of gambling interests or the push-back from the anti-gambling crowd, state Sen.

Two men and a woman face charges in connection with a thwarted weekend robbery attempt in Gardendale, police said.

BIRMINGHAM - They fit snugly around your wrist, are in the shapes of your favorite animals or objects and are so popular in Birmingham that they're difficult to find on store shelves.

Bessemer bingo halls had until midnight to shut down completely, but now they have until at least January.

Gardendale - By mid-morning, the coats were piling up across Jefferson County. On Wednesday, all 53 schools in the Jefco system served as collection sites for ABC 33/40's Warm Coats from Warm Hearts campaign.

Bill Conlee, president and executive director of Happy Feet International, brings shoes and the gospel to thousands of children in typically Central or South America.

Birmingham Mayor Larry Langford waits outside the the Federal Building in Tuscaloosa, Ala, as the jury deliberates during his federal bribery trial Wednesday, October 28, 2009.

Gardendale Dinner Theater in Gardendale, Alabama has grown in popularity over the years.

With county finances still a mess, long lines could return. Even though the county is in a new budget year, and despite the Legislature having passed a new occupational tax to replace the one a court struck down, the county still doesn't have enough money to return workers to a full workweek.

John McCain, Fultondale, 841-7989, wanted to buy a large, industrial-type drawing table with parallel edge.

Man jumps from ambulance on way to mental hospital GARDENDALE, Ala. - A Jefferson County judge has again blocked Birmingham from shuttering a nightclub that the city council had voted to close.

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Larry James Salter, 55, was being treated for a prescription drug addiction and was going through a detoxification period.

John Shin of American Facility Services cleans desktops at the Jefferson County satellite courthouse in Center Point in preparation for its reopening Monday.

GARDENDALE, Ala. - An Alabama state trooper tells NBC 13 HD News that a 55-year-old Larry James Salter of Greenville has died after jumping out of an ambulance Saturday morning.

Jefferson County will reopen its Homewood and Center Point satellite courthouses Monday when more than 650 employees return to work from 10 weeks of unpaid leave, interim Finance Director Travis Hulsey said Wednesday.

Traffic is again flowing on Interstate 65 North in Gardendale after a wreck involving a truck carrying nails disrupted travel earlier this afternoon, according to a police dispatcher.

Gardendale residents and business owners will soon see increases in the cost of landline phone services.

Unless his department gets more money, Jefferson County Sheriff Mike Hale says he will have to shut down the county's jail in Bessemer and transfer that jail's 200 or so inmates to the county's Birmingham jail.