Alabama's bankrupt and cash-strapped Jefferson County has been hit by a computer failure that is delaying payments of bills and deposits, the county manager said on Friday, Reuters reported. Vendor payments by the county, which filed the biggest U.S. municipal bankruptcy on Nov. 9, will be a couple of days late, according to County Manager Tony Petelos. Other payments, such as payroll and those due creditors, were unaffected by the computer mishap. A nine-year-old computer server that was the last of 16 county machines capable of handling the financial software used for payment processing had failed last Sunday night and was revived only early Friday morning.
