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World Series celebration in San Francisco turns ugly

The celebration of the San Francisco Giants’ win in the World Series Sunday night gave way to what several residents described as a riot. KNTV-TV reported that thousands of Giants fans swarmed into the streets following their team’s series-clinching win over Detroit, with several bonfires being lit on the streets…

Beaten baseball fan making progress

Bryan Stow, the San Francisco Giants fan brutally beaten outside Dodger Stadium on baseball’s opening day, has made “significant improvement,” his doctor said Monday. Stow, who suffered serious brain injury in the attack, is awake and breathing on his own, doctor Geoff Manley said. Manley, the chief of neurosurgery at…

Home run king Barry Bonds guilty of obstruction

SAN FRANCISCO — A jury convicted Barry Bonds of obstruction of justice Wednesday, but couldn’t reach a verdict on three perjury charges stemming from the home run king’s testimony in a steroid probe. A mistrial was declared on the three perjury counts. The guilty verdict means the jury of eight…

Barry Bonds jury hears secret tape testimony

SAN FRANCISCO (AFP) – Testimony in the Barry Bonds perjury trial focused on a secret recording of the US home run king’s trainer talking about steroid injections. In the taped locker room chat, secretly recorded by a former friend and business manager of Bonds in 2003, trainer Greg Anderson talks…