It’s Wednesday, and the great odometer of life clicks over another year…

Weather: Maybe rain, probably not. Mostly sunny today with a 20 percent chance of scattered showers today and tonight. Highs today in the middle 80s and lows tonight in the middle 60s. Pretty much the same for Thursday.

Another credit-card bust. Gardendale Police helped their colleagues in Hoover catch a man from Brooklyn, N.Y. who was buying up gift cards at $1,000 a pop using fraudulent debit and credit cards. Detective Chris Clark, Gardendale’s specialist in financial crime investigations, said that Edward Earl Jones had evidently come to the Birmingham area just to carry out this crime. He was first spotted by Regions Bank’s real-time fraud-prevention unit as he visited the Target store in Fultondale, then tracked as he went to other Target stores south of Birmingham, where he was finally caught.

Baby found at meth lab site. When Jefferson County Sheriff’s deputies went to arrest a man not far from Jefferson State Community College on outstanding warrants, they found him and a man from Warrior sitting around the remains of a makeshift methamphetamine lab – and just outside, the found the man’s infant child, hiding in a car with a woman. Deputies arrested the original suspect, but no charges have been filed against the unidentified Warrior man as of yet.

Sports: Staying put. After a blowout win Friday night, Mortimer Jordan continues to hold down the third place in the Alabama Sports Writers Association Class 5A football rankings, which were released last night. The Blue Devils host Lincoln this Friday night in the NJN Big Game. Locust Fork was the only other local team to receive any votes… Baseball: The teams for the National League Championship Series are set, after Matt Adams’ three-run homer gave St. Louis a 3-2 win over the Los Angeles Dodgers in Game 4 of their Division Series. Meanwhile, the Giants won their series over Washington in a most unusual way – the winning run was scored by Joe Panik on a wild pitch by Aaron Barrett, to give San Francisco the 3-2 victory. The AL Championship Series starts Saturday night, while the NL series gets under way on Friday night.