Country singer Mindy McCready was found dead Sunday "from what appears to be a single self-inflicted gunshot wound," police said.
Deputies investigating a report of gunshots found McCready's body on the front porch of a home?in Heber Springs, Ark., according to the?Cleburne County Sheriff's Office.
McCready, 37, had battled substance abuse.?
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She had a No.1 country hit in 1996, when she was just 21, with "Guys Do It All the Time." Her other popular songs included "Ten Thousand Angels" and "A Girl's Gotta Do (What A Girl's Gotta Do)."
"I grew up listening to?Mindy McCready...so sad for her family tonight," Grammy-winning country singer Carrie Underwood tweeted. "Many prayers are going out to them."
Wynonna Judd tweeted, "Oh my! Mindy. Dear sweet girl. This is so sad. It just breaks my heart what addiction continues to take from this life."
McCready, who has dated such famous men as "Lois and Clark" star Dean Cain and Red Sox pitcher Roger Clemens, has had more problems than hits in recent years.
Her relationship with Clemens made headlines in 2008. McCready told "Inside Edition" that she was just 16 when she met the married Clemens, but said their relationship did not become sexual until years later. Clemens issued a statement saying only, "I have made mistakes in my personal life for which I am sorry."
In 2010, she appeared on "Celebrity Rehab with Dr. Drew" seeking help for her battle with substance addiction.
Her biography for the VH1 show states, "Although she was arrested and jailed for trying to buy OxyContin with a false prescription and attempted suicide with an overdose of drugs and alcohol, Mindy?believes her only true addiction is to violent relationships."
In an interview with The Associated Press in 2010, McCready called her life "a beautiful mess."?
She added: "My entire life things have been attracted to me and vice versa that turn into chaotic nightmares or I create the chaos myself."?
In 2011, McCready's mother reported that the singer and her young son Zander were missing. McCready's mother was Zander's legal guardian. The singer returned her son by order of a judge. She gave birth to another son, Zayne, in April 2012.
In January, her boyfriend David Wilson died of a gunshot wound in his Heber Springs home.?McCready later appeared on TODAY and called Wilson her "soulmate." When asked by NBC's Andrea Canning if she shot Wilson, McCready replied, "Oh, my God, no. He was my life. We were each others' life."
Authorities are still investigating Wilson's death and have not named McCready as a suspect.
On Feb. 6, McCready's publicist said the singer was admitted to an inpatient facility, though the cause was not specified. Her two sons were placed in foster care while McCready was being treated.
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Driver Earl Pearson Jr. was the king of East Bay Raceway Park on Saturday night after his first Lucas Oil Late Model Dirt Series win since 2010.
Four-time Lucas Oil Late Model Dirt Series champion Earl Pearson Jr. ended a drought that dated back to July of 2010, when he claimed victory on the final night of the DART Winternationals for the series at East Bay Raceway Park on Saturday night.
Pearson banked $10,000 after beating Scott Bloomquist to the checkered flag.
?It's been a long time, no doubt,? said the four-time series champion who drives for NASCAR veteran Bobby Labonte.
While Pearson won the finale, Don O'Neal, who claimed Friday night's $10,000 triumph, won the DART Winternationals title and an additional $5,000 after finishing third on Saturday.
Dennis Erb Jr. won a pair of features during the six nights of racing, while Bloomquist and two-time defending series champion Jimmy Owens also triumphed.
Pittman starts strong
With two of the three nights of the opening weekend of World of Outlaws STP Sprint Car Series competition in the books, new Kasey Kahne Racing driver Daryn Pittman had announced himself a contender for the series championship.
Wheeling the Great Clips No. 9, Pittman dominated Friday night's opener at Florida's Volusia Speedway Park and then raced from 11th on the grid to finish second to Iowa veteran Terry McCarl during Saturday night's program.
A full night of racing remained on Sunday at the half-mile dirt track.
Lanigan owns Bubba Raceway
Defending World of Outlaws Late Model Series champion Darrell Lanigan knows his way around Bubba Raceway Park in Ocala, Fla.
Lanigan proved his prowess at the three-eighths-mile dirt track by winning the first two rounds of the three-night WoO LMS portion of the Bubba Army Late Model Winter Nationals.
Saturday night's $10,150 victory was Lanigan's fifth in seven career starts over the past four years at the track. It was also his 43rd career WoO LM triumph.
Townley wins one for Venturini
John Wes Townley held off a late charge from Kyle Larson to win the Lucas Oil 200 presented by MAVTV American Real, the traditional season opener for the ARCA Racing Series presented by Menards, held at Daytona International Speedway on Feb. 16.
Townley's first ARCA triumph was also the first at DIS for the Venturini Motorsports team, which has been a regular visitor to ARCA victory lanes for decades. It was also the 50th anniversary ARCA race at the 2.5-mile superspeedway.
?This is just a great day for Venturini Motorsports,? said Townley, who also won the pole. ?This is priceless. I almost wouldn't trade it for anything in the world. It's a real honor.?
Hoosier, ARCA roll on
Hoosier Racing Tire Corp. and the ARCA Racing Series presented by Menards have extended their contract, which calls for Hoosier to be the official tire of the series, through 2015.
The agreement provides for the continued exclusive use of Hoosier Racing Tires in the ARCA Racing Series for the 2013, 2014 and 2015 racing seasons and continues an established awards program and cost containment initiative for series teams.
Carolina Clash, Eastern All-Star Tour unite
The Carolina Clash Super Late Model Series and the Battle of the Eastern All-Star Tour will unite to form a combined late model series.
?It's a big day for all of us involved,? said Carolina Clash president and founder Larry Lee. ?This is something we have worked on for quite some time and we believe it will be a huge benefit to the racers in our area.?
The newly unified Carolina Clash series was established as a result of extensive research and consideration of how to utilize the Hoosier tire, along with the Carolina Clash mainstay American Racer.
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Devin McLeod, Chuck Hossfeld, Woody Pitkat, David Rogers and Cody Coughlin were among the winners during the opening two nights of the 47th annual World Series of Asphalt Stock Car Racing at Florida's New Smyrna Speedway?Jacob Poel, Nick Hoffman and Rodney Sanders were winners during the first three nights of UMP modified competition at Florida's Volusia Speedway Park?POWRi Racing will sanction the POWRi Lucas Oil Outlaw Midget Series, which will run its inaugural season in 2013 with an eight-race schedule in New Hampshire and New York?Rain washed out both nights of All Star Circuit of Champions sprint car competition at Volusia Speedway Park.
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If you fancy getting cosy with an asteroid that's got the destructive power of a nuclear arsenal, today's your lucky day. The wittily-named 2012 DA14 will sail past Australia at a distance of 17,510 miles early this afternoon, and while it won't be visible with the naked eye, NASA's got a few telescopes that'll do the job. It'll come into range at around 2:00pm ET, and is expected to be at its brightest about 25 minutes afterward. If your boss is sympathetic and you don't wanna miss a thing, head on past the break to catch the livestream, which started at 12:00pm ET. As for us? We're gonna spend the next few hours looking for Bruce Willis' phone number.
JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - South African athlete Oscar Pistorius was planning a future with girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp, who he is accused of shooting in cold blood this week, his uncle said on Saturday.
"We are in a state of total shock - firstly about the tragic death of Reeva who we had all got to know well and care for deeply over the last few months," Anthony Pistorius said in a statement released by his nephew's agent.
"They had plans together and Oscar was happier in his private life than he had been for a long time," he said.
Pistorius, 26, was charged on Friday with murdering Steenkamp in the early hours of the previous day. He broke down during a 40-minute bail hearing at a Pretoria court but was not asked to enter a plea.
Prosecutors alleged the shooting was premeditated - a charge that could put Pistorius behind bars for life if he is convicted.
Anthony Pistorius reiterated the family's belief that the track star - a double amputee who became one of the biggest names in world athletics - had not deliberately shot Steenkamp, a 30-year-old model. Initial reports suggested he may have mistaken Steenkamp for an intruder.
(Reporting by Ed Cropley; Editing by Angus MacSwan)
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Like rude boys hijacking their high school history class and goring every sacred cow of the Arthurian Legend, Monty Python?s Spamalot blows raspberries at good King Arthur, his heroic Knights of the Round Table, and his mythic capital Camelot, much to the delight of Broadway Series South and the North Carolina Theatre patrons who awarded Tuesday?s opening-night performance with a vigorous ? and well-deserved ? standing ovation.
In Monty Python and the Holy Grail (1975), Britain?s bad boys of comedy transformed King Arthur, Lancelot, and cohorts into medieval wanderers, dodging mud puddles, pockets of bubonic plague, fearsome Knights Who Say Ni, insufferable French Taunters, and a bloodthirsty Black Knight, whose general ineptitude with a sword allows even his weakest opponents ? such as King Arthur ? to carve him up. Arthur Rowan is a stitch as the irrepressible King Arthur, a sort of Energizer Bunny of the Middle Ages who clip-clops alone afoot across the English countryside, accompanied only by his faithful squire/Foley artist Patsy (played with brio by Glenn Giron). Patsy is indispensable to the King Arthur, because he bangs coconut shells together to simulate the sound of the hoof beats of the king?s invisible steed.
Adam Grabau is hilarious as the brave but decidedly bent Sir Lancelot, the Knight of Ni, and Tim the Enchanter. Joe Beurlein keeps the ticket buyers chortling with his antics as a tweedy modern-day Historian, Not Dead Fred, and the light-in-the loafers Prince Herbert; and Joshua Taylor Hamilton is amusing as the handsome Sir Dennis Galahad.
Thomas DeMarcus is delightful as Sir Dennis? meddlesome mother, Prince Herbert?s exasperated father and the bellicose Black Knight, who cannot win for losing; and Abigail Raye is lovely to look at and listen to as the mysterious Lady of the Lake ? and she also demonstrates a fine flair for comedy as the frustrated Broadway diva playing the Lady of the Lake, who disappears from the musical for what seems like eons.
The current national tour of Monty Python?s Spamalot, handsomely produced by Stephen B. Kane, Michael McFadden, and Phoenix Entertainment, looks like a million dollars, thanks to the reproduction on the road of Tim Hatley?s original scenic and costume design. But it is lively and imaginative musical staging of Broadway director Mike Nichols and choreographer Casey Nicholaw ? as robustly recreated by tour director B.T. McNicholl and choreographer Scott Taylor ? plus the outrageous antics of a charismatic cast ? that gins up the tsunami of laughter that rolls in, wave after wave, throughout the show.
SECOND OPINION: Feb. 12th Raleigh, NCTriangle Arts & Entertainment?s online version of theTriangle Review preview by Robert W. McDowell: http://triangleartsandentertainment.org/2013/02/monty-pythons-spamalot-gleefully-lampoons-king-arthur-the-knights-of-the-round-table-and-camelot/.
Broadway Series South and North Carolina Theatre present MONTY PYTHON?S SPAMALOT at 7:30 p.m. Feb. 14 and 15 and 2 and 7:30 p.m. Feb. 16 and 17 in Raleigh Memorial Auditorium in the Duke Energy Center for the Performing Arts, 2 E. South St., Raleigh, North Carolina 27601.
TICKETS: $30.10-$89.35 (including fees).
BOX OFFICE:
Duke Energy Center Box Office: 919-996-8700 or info@progressenergycenter.com (information only).
Ticketmaster:800-745-3000 or http://www.ticketmaster.com/venueartist/115203/927819.
SHOW: http://www.progressenergycenter.com/event/spamalot-2640 and http://www.nctheatre.com/shows/monty-pythons-spamalot.
VIDEO PREVIEWS: http://www.montypythonsspamalot.com/media.php.
PRESENTERS:
Broadway Series South: http://www.progressenergycenter.com/broadway-series-south.
North Carolina Theatre: http://www.nctheatre.com/.
Monty Python: http://pythonline.com/ (official website) and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monty_Python (Wikipedia).
Monty Python and the Holy Grail (1975 film): ?http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monty_Python_and_the_Holy_Grail (Wikipedia) and http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0071853/ (Internet Movie Database).
The Tour: http://www.montypythonsspamalot.com/ (official website) and https://www.facebook.com/MontyPythonsSpamalotTour (Facebpook page).
The Tour Cast: http://www.montypythonsspamalot.com/cast.php?section=235 (official web page).
The Tour Creative Team: http://www.montypythonsspamalot.com/creators.php (official web page).
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