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Barry Bonds Found Guilty on One Charge: Should He Go to Jail?
Barry Bonds was convicted of obstruction of justice today, but a jury of eight women and four men could not render a verdict on three counts of perjury after four days of deliberations. According to USA Today, Bonds could face a maximum of 10 years in
Updated: 04/13/2011 06:12P
Barry Bonds guilty of one count, jury deadlocked on others
The jury in Barry Bonds' criminal trial returned a verdict on only one count in the four-count indictment today. He was found guilty of obstruction of justice. The jury declared it was deadlocked on the three perjury counts and the judge has declared a
Updated: 04/13/2011 06:11P
Immigration law likely will spark litigation, job losses
Foreign direct investment and international trade are critical to Georgia's economy, as are the jobs created by investment and trade. Since Arizona enacted its new immigration law, the state has paid hundreds of thousands of dollars in legal fees to
Updated: 04/13/2011 06:11P
Following AARP Lawsuit, House Democrats Ask HUD to Modify HECM Program
HUD has since rescinded guidance on its non-recourse policy for HECM borrowers, to clarify that a borrower or the borrowers' heirs will never owe more on the loan than the property is worth. An outstanding issue in the lawsuit, which AARP continues to
Updated: 04/13/2011 06:11P
Ratto: Verdict doesn't change Bonds' public face
Even with the one verdict the jury could emit after four weeks of justice-grinding – guilty of obstruction of justice -- Bonds is who he was before the trial began, and he is perceived the way he was when he retired, when he broke Henry Aaron's home
Updated: 04/13/2011 06:09P
Business: Speedway buys 27 Gas City locations
Crain's reported that the deals were approved Wednesday by a US Bankruptcy Court that sold off the assets of the Frankfort-based company built by William McEnery for $135 million. Gas City has stations in Kankakee and Manteno.
Updated: 04/13/2011 06:09P
Missing woman, husband recently in financial trouble
A Bartow County woman missing since Friday and her husband were in serious financial trouble, according to documents filed in US bankruptcy court. Abed and Wazineh Suleiman, of Cartersville, owed debtors more than $1.2 million when
Updated: 04/13/2011 06:08P
Barry Bonds: Found Guilty of Obstruction of Justice, Will Bonds Serve Jail Time?
The jury in the Barry Bonds perjury trial are now believed to have reached a verdict NBC Bay Area's Traci Grant reports. After deliberating for four days, the jury found Bonds guilty of obstruction of justice and could not reach a decision on the three
Updated: 04/13/2011 06:08P
Barry Bonds was guilty, regardless of what jury said
After four days of deliberation in Bonds' perjury trial, the jury has come back with a guilty verdict on obstruction of justice. They failed to reach a verdict on three other counts of perjury related to the federal investigation into the Bay Area
Updated: 04/13/2011 06:08P
Barry Bonds Trial: He's Guilty of Obstructing Justice; Jury Hangs on Other Counts
By AP (AP) – Barry Bonds was found guilty of obstruction of justice today, but a jury failed to reach a verdict on three other counts that the home run king lied to a grand jury in 2003 when he denied that he knowingly used steroids and human growth
Updated: 04/13/2011 06:08P