

HEBER SPRINGS, Ark., Feb. 19 (UPI) -- Mindy McCready likely shot her dog before turning the gun on herself because she didn't want to leave her pet alone at her Arkansas home, a friend says.
"Mindy really loved her dog and that would not have been an act of malice at all," Fox News quoted the unidentified friend as saying. "It would have been more of a case where she just didn't want to leave the dog alone."
McCready, 37, fatally shot her dog, then herself Sunday afternoon.
The faded country music star had battled addictions to drugs and alcohol for years. Her two young sons were placed in foster care this month because, her family said, she wasn't taking care of them after her fiance's January death.
A memorial is being planned for McCready in Nashville, Fox News said.
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THOUSAND OAKS, Calif., May 23 (UPI) --
Actor Steve Forrest, who played Lieutenant Dan "Hondo" Harrelson on the 1970s TV series "S.W.A.T.," has died in Thousand Oaks, Calif., his family said.
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NORTH WEBSTER, Ind., May 22 (UPI) --
A chain reaction collision of four school buses in northern Indiana Wednesday afternoon left about 50 students and a bus driver injured, authorities said.
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ISLAMABAD, May 23 (UPI) --
Pakistan may get a bailout worth up to $15 billion from Saudi Arabia for its troubled energy sector, a Pakistani official told Dawn newspaper.
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KATHMANDU, Nepal, May 23 (UPI) --
Yuichiro Miura, 80, scaled Mount Everest Thursday, becoming the oldest person to reach the summit of the world's tallest peak, his office said.
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