By PETE YOST Associated Press Writer
WASHINGTON (AP) _ Actor Dennis Quaid told Congress on Wednesday that taking away the right to sue pharmaceutical companies would turn consumers into ”uninformed and uncompensated lab rats.”
Quaid’s comments came as he described a harrowing, near-fatal drug mix-up in which his newborn twins received 1,000 times the correct dose of [...]

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By GREG RISLING Associated Press Writer
LOS ANGELES (AP) _ Securities regulators on Wednesday charged Broadcom Corp. co-founders Henry T. Nicholas III and Henry Samueli with falsifying the company’s reported income, leading to what is believed to be the largest accounting restatement yet because of backdating stock options.
Samueli stepped down as chairman of the company’s board [...]

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By ANICK JESDANUN AP Internet Writer
NEW YORK (AP) _ A notorious ”Spam King” and his partner now owe MySpace about $230 million in damages after a federal judge awarded the popular online hangout what is believed to be the largest anti-spam judgment ever.
The judgment is a big victory for MySpace, although service providers often have [...]

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SAN FRANCISCO (AP) _ Federal prosecutors have filed a new indictment against Barry Bonds, charging the home run king with 14 counts of lying to a grand jury and one count of obstruction when he denied knowingly using performance-enhancing drugs.
Bonds originally was charged with four counts of perjury and one count of obstruction of justice [...]

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By TOM HAYS Associated Press Writer
NEW YORK (AP) _ A woman accused of booking clients for a high-priced call girl ring pleaded guilty Wednesday in the federal probe that brought down ”Client No. 9,” former Gov. Eliot Spitzer.
Temeka Rachelle Lewis, 32, entered the pleas to federal charges of promoting prostitution and money laundering. She’s among [...]

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TAMPA, Fla. (AP) _ A Tampa judge has sentenced former NFL running back Troy Hambrick to five years in prison for selling crack cocaine.
The former Dallas Cowboys and Arizona Cardinals player was sentenced Tuesday by U.S. District Judge Steven D. Merryday.
Hambrick pleaded guilty on Feb. 26 to one count of distributing 50 grams or more [...]

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UNIONTOWN, Pa. (AP) _ The Pennsylvania Superior Court has rejected the appeal of a former youth baseball coach convicted of offering a player $25 to bean a 9-year-old autistic teammate.
The court didn’t consider arguments on behalf of 31-year-old Mark Downs Jr. of Dunbar, saying his attorney missed a filing deadline by two weeks.
Downs has been [...]

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By MICHELLE ROBERTS Associated Press Writer
SAN ANTONIO (AP) _ A mother taken from a polygamist sect and being held as a minor in state custody gave birth Monday to a baby boy who was immediately taken into child-protective custody.
State officials acknowledged the mother may be an adult, and said they were trying to determine her [...]

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By LISA CORNWELL Associated Press Writer
CINCINNATI (AP) _ A man ordered by a judge to make sure his daughter hit the books has found himself in jail because she failed to earn a high school equivalency diploma.
Brian Gegner, of Fairfield, was sentenced last week to 180 days in jail for contributing to the unruliness or [...]

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HOUSTON (AP) _ A woman who said she was raped by co-workers while employed by a contractor in Iraq can take her claims to trial, a federal judge ruled Friday.
Jamie Leigh Jones filed a federal lawsuit last year, saying she was attacked while working for a Halliburton Co. subsidiary at Camp Hope, Baghdad, in 2005. [...]

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