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Tuesday, April 24, 2012  Company aims to strike it rich by mining asteroids. Tycoons say gold and other minerals could be mined.

Thursday, April 14, 2011  After a 12-day trial and four days of deliberation, a jury had deadlocked on three charges he lied under oath.

Thursday, February 25, 2010  Mark McGwire's estranged younger brother says he injected the home run king with a variety of steroids and thinks his sibling gained obvious strength from the drugs.

Saturday, January 23, 2010  According to excerpts released Friday, Curtis Wenzlaff -- arrested in 1992 for steroids distribution -- told ESPN's "Outside the Lines" that McGwire's goal was to get "bigger, faster, stronger."

Monday, January 11, 2010  Mark McGwire finally came clean Monday, admitting he used steroids when he broke baseball's home run record in 1998.