May, Brooks hide from process server

Bessemer Mayor Ed May and his erstwhile sidekick, Travis Brooks, who sometimes plays the role of city clerk, are hiding from a process server this morning.

The server hopes to serve the pair in a City Council lawsuit aimed at forcing the mayor to allow electronic bingo parlors to get their permits.

The server said he has never seen anything like this in the past.

The mayor's tax-supplied SUV was in its normal parking place, but the door to the mayor's office was closed and locked.

Brooks is also in, but the server was told that he was on an important phone call that could take hours to complete. Hmmm...

—Tribune staff report