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Troubled country singer Mindy McCready has been hospitalized in Florida after an overdose. McCready, 28, was found unconscious Friday in a hotel lobby, according to authorities in Pinellas County, Fla. An incident report did not list the nature of the overdose. Last week, McCready was charged in Arizona with identity theft and other counts. Within the past two years, she has also faced allegations of driving under the influence and a drug violation.

Country artist Mindy McCready was booked into the Pinellas County, Florida jail Friday night on a charge of violating her probation. McCready was on probation in Williamson County. She had already been serving three years probation for obtaining a fake prescription for Oxycontin at a Brentwood pharmacy when she was arrested for driving under the influence in Belle Meade earlier this year. That arrest also violated her probation. Friday evening, McCready was arrested by the Florida Department of Law Enforcement on a warrant for violation of probation. She was being held without bond in the Florida jail, and is scheduled...

FRANKLIN, Tenn. - An arrest warrant issued for Mindy McCready says the country singer has violated her probation on a drug charge, authorities said Wednesday. A judge signed off on the warrant Monday because McCready left Tennessee without getting permission from her probation officer and didn't report to the officer during July, according to Williamson County Sheriff's officials interviewed Wednesday. Authorities said this was McCready's second probation violation, which means she cannot post bond this time and likely will have to serve time in jail. The probation violations stem from charges brought against the singer last year, when she pleaded...

NASHVILLE, Tenn. - Country singer Mindy McCready was hospitalized after overdosing on antidepressants early Friday following a quarrel with the father of her unborn child. She was in fair condition Friday afternoon, officials said. According to a police report, McCready and William McKnight were arguing on the phone about whether his parents would help pay for the pregnancy. He cursed at McCready and she became angry and took about 30 antidepressant pills, the report says. After McKnight called her back and she didn't answer, he called police and an ambulance. McCready's lawyer did not return a phone message to his...

FRANKLIN, Tenn. — Mindy McCready (search) says she still loves the man charged with nearly beating her to death earlier this year, and her two suicide attempts were the result of their troubled relationship. "I wanted him to be sorry," McCready said Thursday about her boyfriend, William McKnight (search), on Oprah Winfrey's talk show. McKnight was charged with attempted murder in May after he allegedly broke into the singer's home and assaulted her. McCready, 29, had a No. 1 hit in 1996 with "Guys Do It All the Time," but has suffered a series of legal and personal problems in...