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Hubbard Trial Continues, Inmate's Family Files Suit

         

The prosecution continues to press their case against House Speaker Mike Hubbard. Governor Robert Bentley took the stand as Hubbard defends himself against twenty three felony ethics charges. Prosecutors are trying to prove Hubbard’s acted illegally when he met with Bentley on behalf of two clients. Former state lawmaker and political commentator Steve Flowers attended the proceedings. He says prosecutors spent time on Bentley’s perceptions of his meeting with Hubbard…   

“Governor Bentley said ‘I assumed, like anybody else would, that he was coming in his role as Speaker of the House.’  That he was not coming to talk about anything but that. That was the testimony. It only about twenty minutes.”

Governor Bentley is embroiled in a scandal of his own after making sexually explicit comments to a former female aid. An investigation is underway into his actions. Bentley and Hubbard both claims to have done nothing wrong…

The family of a dead prison inmate is defending him before the press. Phillip Anderson’s relatives claim he screamed in pain in his jail cell for a week after being arrested on a contempt of court charge. Anderson’s cell mates reportedly called his youngest daughter’s cell phone to ask her to get help. The inmate died on the operating table from a perforated ulcer. The family has filed a federal civil rights suit. Vernon Anderson is his older brother…

“It was a total shock. We had just saw him a week before. He was helping someone fix their car. That was the kind of person my brother was. If you had some kind of issue, and he could help you with it, he was right there.”

Anderson’s death occurred in early 2015. Tuscaloosa Sheriff Ron Abernathy and three of his aides are listed among the defendants in Anderson family’s lawsuit.

Residents of an apartment complex in Tuscaloosa are breathing a sigh of relief after a potential bomb was removed from their area. The bomb squad was deployed to the Stone Creek apartment complex in Tuscaloosa this morning after a city worker found the device.

The Tuscaloosa Police Department’s Lt. Teena Richardson says two buildings within the complex were evacuated.

The Hazardous Device Unit, the ATF,  FBI and Tuscaloosa Police were on the scene.

Police say the device was contained and destroyed. 

WVUA23 is reporting the ATF is taking the explosive device to its forensic laboratory in Atlanta for further testing.

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