Greg Anderson

An estimated 20 agents from the FBI and IRS on Wednesday raided the home of the mother-in-law of Greg Anderson, Barry Bonds' former trainer. "It's the government run amok," attorney Mark Geragos said of the search, which he claimed was "a not-so-transparent attempt to intimidate" Anderson and push him to testify in the player's upcoming perjury trial. Geragos said the raid resulted in the wrongful seizure of personal items and mementos.

Federal prosecutors dropped all remaining charges against Barry Bonds on Wednesday, days after a judge upheld the former major leaguer's conviction on an obstruction of justice charge. The U.S. Attorney's office in San Francisco filed papers informing U.S. District Judge Susan Illston that it was dismissing the three charges of making false statements still pending against Bonds, baseball's all-time leader in home runs. A jury deadlocked on the three counts at Bonds' trial in April.

Retired baseball player Randy Velarde, who last played for the Oakland Athletics, testified Wednesday that Barry Bonds' former athletic trainer supplied him with performance-enhancing drugs and injected him during a series of parking lot meetings in 2002. Velarde was one of four major league ballplayers called by the prosecution in an effort to prove that Bonds lied when he told a grand jury in 2003 that he did not knowingly take steroids or human growth hormone. But Velarde and the other players have not implicated Bonds in their dealings with his athletic trainer, Greg Anderson.

Jurors in the Barry Bonds federal perjury trial went home for the weekend Friday after asking for transcripts of a surreptitious recording of Bonds' personal trainer discussing steroid injections and the testimony of a witness who said she saw the trainer inject Bonds. U.S. District Judge Susan Illston brought jurors back into the courtroom to replay parts of the recording of Greg Anderson, Bonds' trainer, discussing his method for injecting steroids. Steve Hoskins, a friend and employee of Bonds, made the recording in 2003 around the time he and Bonds had a falling out over money.

Reporting from San Francisco -- Colorado Rockies first baseman Jason Giambi and two former major league baseball players testified Tuesday that the personal trainer of slugger Barry Bonds supplied them with steroids. The trainer, Greg Anderson, has refused to testify in Bonds' federal trial and was taken into custody last week. Jurors have been instructed not to draw inferences about Anderson's absence. U.S. District Judge Susan Illston, who is presiding over the Bonds' trial, told jurors Tuesday that they were not to infer from the players' testimony that Bonds was using the same substances.

Forward Greg Anderson of the Denver Nuggets, an unrestricted free agent, will sign a three-year contract worth more than $6 million with Caserta of Italy, a Houston television station reported.

A federal court hearing scheduled for today in which Barry Bonds' trainer would seek the dismissal of steroid distribution charges against him has been postponed for about three months, a delay Greg Anderson's lawyer said was an effort to try to work out a plea deal. "We're trying to resolve the case," Anderson's attorney, Anna Ling, said Tuesday. "We do not want to take this to trial. And we don't want to bring in baseball players to testify."

Jurors in the Barry Bonds federal perjury trial went home for the weekend Friday after asking for transcripts of a surreptitious recording of Bonds' personal trainer discussing steroid injections and the testimony of a witness who said she saw the trainer inject Bonds. U.S. District Judge Susan Illston brought jurors back into the courtroom to replay parts of the recording of Greg Anderson, Bonds' trainer, discussing his method for injecting steroids. Steve Hoskins, a friend and employee of Bonds, made the recording in 2003 around the time he and Bonds had a falling out over money.

About 400 people attended memorial services Tuesday for 12-year-old Greg Anderson, who was stabbed to death last week in his East Tustin home. Jon Waterson, youth director at Aldersgate United Methodist Church in Tustin, where the services were held, remembered Greg as a boy who had "attacked life with a lot of vigor. He was kind of shy, but once he broke out of his shell, he really got to know everyone well," Waterson said. The Rev. Allan F.

Prosecutors in the Barry Bonds perjury trial stunned the court Monday by revealing the discovery of a long-missing secret recording of Bonds' orthopedic surgeon, who last week denied having discussed Bonds' use of steroids. But U.S. District Judge Susan Illston, who by late afternoon had reviewed the tape, said she "mostly" heard statements that were "almost entirely inadmissible or irrelevant. " Steve Hoskins, a key prosecution witness, secretly taped Dr. Arthur Ting in September 2003, after federal agents raided a Bay Area laboratory that provided professional athletes with illegal performance-enhancing drugs.

Retired baseball player Randy Velarde, who last played for the Oakland Athletics, testified Wednesday that Barry Bonds' former athletic trainer supplied him with performance-enhancing drugs and injected him during a series of parking lot meetings in 2002. Velarde was one of four major league ballplayers called by the prosecution in an effort to prove that Bonds lied when he told a grand jury in 2003 that he did not knowingly take steroids or human growth hormone. But Velarde and the other players have not implicated Bonds in their dealings with his athletic trainer, Greg Anderson.

Reporting from San Francisco -- Colorado Rockies first baseman Jason Giambi and two former major league baseball players testified Tuesday that the personal trainer of slugger Barry Bonds supplied them with steroids. The trainer, Greg Anderson, has refused to testify in Bonds' federal trial and was taken into custody last week. Jurors have been instructed not to draw inferences about Anderson's absence. U.S. District Judge Susan Illston, who is presiding over the Bonds' trial, told jurors Tuesday that they were not to infer from the players' testimony that Bonds was using the same substances.

A key prosecution witness in the federal trial of Barry Bonds testified Wednesday that he was so worried about Bonds' health that he secretly recorded Bonds' trainer in hopes that the slugger's father would realize his son was taking steroids and get him to stop. But under cross-examination a few hours later, the witness admitted he made the recording at the time Bonds ended a lucrative business association with him ? a break that cost the witness money and moved Bonds to accuse him of fraud.

It's not exactly the O.J. trial, but the courtroom circus that started Monday in San Francisco could be labeled the Steroid Trial of the Century. And regardless of its outcome, it should send a powerful message to athletes young and old that taking performance-enhancing drugs isn't worth the risk. On the docket is Barry Bonds, the San Francisco Giants slugger who broke Major League Baseball's home run record in 2007. He is charged with lying under oath when he told a grand jury in 2003 that he had never knowingly used steroids.

The federal judge who'll preside over Barry Bonds' perjury trial that starts next week has ordered Bonds' former personal trainer Greg Anderson to appear in front of her Wednesday to determine whether he'll testify at the trial. Anderson's attorney has maintained the trainer will continue not to cooperate with federal prosecutors, who have already sent him to jail for more than 15 months on previous contempt charges and have urged the judge to imprison Anderson again if he remains silent. U.S.

The relationship between Barry Bonds and Greg Anderson started long before Bonds became a superstar in the major leagues, before Anderson became his personal trainer. Their friendship -- the focus of an ever-deepening steroids scandal -- was born of simpler times. They were kids growing up in the San Francisco Bay Area, playing youth baseball, dreaming of bigger things.