Bonds' ex-business partner back on stand

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) - Barry Bonds' estranged childhood friend underwent more cross examination Thursday as the slugger's attorney attempted to portray Steve Hoskins as a revenge-seeker who was bitter from a messy business divorce.

Hoskins testified that he loaned former Bonds mistress Kimberly Bell $10,000 to hire an attorney after her own bitter split with Bonds in 2003.

Bell, like Hoskins, is a vital government witness because she plans to testify that Bonds told her of his steroid use.

Hoskins has testified that he strongly suspected Bonds was using steroids between 1999 and 2003. Hoskins on Thursday testified that Dr. Arthur Ting told him that a Bonds elbow injury was caused by steroid use.