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SAN FRANCISCO -- Barry Bonds, baseball's home run champion, avoided a prison term Friday when a federal judge sentenced him to 30 days of house arrest, 2 years of probation, 250 hours of community service with youth groups and a $4,000 fine for providing evasive testimony to a federal grand jury eight years ago. Bonds's lawyers stated their intention to appeal the guilty verdict, and the judge, Susan Illston of United States District Court, agreed to stay the sentence through the appeal process. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Federal prosecutors will have at least two more months to decide whether to retry Barry Bonds on any of the perjury counts that resulted in a deadlocked jury in April, a federal judge in San Francisco told them in court on Thursday. Judge Susan Illston of United States District Court granted a request from the prosecutors to delay their decision to retry Bonds to late August, at the earliest. She said it would make sense for the court to resolve another issue first: Bonds's motion to drop his conviction on an obstruction of justice charge. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Judge Susan Illston of United States District Court in San Francisco barred the jury at Barry Bonds's perjury trial from hearing angry voice-mail messages he left his mistress during their nine-year relationship. Prosecutors wanted to introduce them to show that Bonds was experiencing so-called ''roid rage'' when he left the messages. The trial begins Monday. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]