BESSEMER, Ala. (AP) - A prosecutor is allowing 13 electronic bingo halls in Jefferson County's Bessemer Cutoff to remain open for at least the next few months.
Arthur Green, the district attorney for the Cutoff, decided to drop a Thursday deadline to shut the halls down after an emergency hearing before Circuit Judge Eugene Verin. Lawyers for charity bingo operators and Fairfield sought an injunction against Green enforcing the deadline. A new deadline was not set.
A final hearing is expected in January on whether electronic bingo machines and operations are legal in the Cutoff. Bingo halls in the Birmingham Division were closed by Monday. District Attorney Brandon Falls on Oct. 21 declared the halls to be for-profit businesses and ordered them to remove their machines.
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