June 6 (Bloomberg) -- Barry Bonds, Major League Baseball's home-run record holder, pleaded innocent today to renewed charges that he lied to a grand jury about taking steroids and obstructed a federal steroids probe.

The former San Francisco Giant appeared today in San Francisco federal court with his lawyers for a second time in six months to answer criminal charges in a U.S. probe into steroid use among athletes.

In his first appearance, in December, Bonds pleaded not guilty to an indictment accusing him of four counts of perjury and one count of obstruction of justice. Prosecutors filed a new indictment last month charging Bonds with making 14 false statements and obstructing justice after a judge said the first set of charges were flawed.

``Not guilty to each count,'' Allen Ruby, Bonds's attorney, told U.S. Magistrate Judge Bernard Zimmerman at a two-minute hearing today in San Francisco.

Bonds said only ``Yes'' when asked if he would appear at a hearing later today before U.S. District Judge Susan Illston, who will preside over the trial. Illston may set a trial date today.

The new indictment, like the earlier charges, focuses on Bonds's responses to investigators' questions during his December 2003 appearance before a grand jury.

Bonds told the grand jury that he didn't take anything that he knew was a steroid and denied being given testosterone, human growth hormones or any injectable substance by trainer Greg Anderson, according to the indictment. Bonds also said Anderson gave him a cream that the trainer said was flax-seed oil, prosecutors said. They claim those statements were false.

Bonds, who spent the past 15 years playing for the Giants, last season broke Hank Aaron's record of 755 career home runs. The seven-time National League Most Valuable Player, who has hit 762 home runs, remains without a team after the Giants opted not to re-sign him.

The case is U.S. v. Bonds, 07-CR-00732, U.S. District Court, Northern District of California (San Francisco).

To contact the reporter on this story: Karen Gullo in San Francisco federal court at 1916 or kgullo@bloomberg.net.

Last Updated: June 6, 2008 13:12 EDT