The 37-year-old died from an "apparent self-inflicted gunshot wound", Arkansas sheriff Marty Moss said.

BBC: Country singer Mindy McCready dies of apparent suicide

Myers, Florida, died this afternoon of an apparent self-inflicted gunshot wound at a lake home in Heber Springs, Arkansas.

FORBES: Country Singer Mindy McCready Dead of Apparent Suicide

Economists, typically baffled by selflessness, have tended to hunt for hidden self-interest in apparent altruism.

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The failure of self-regulation is apparent and investors are calling for diligent, unconflicted regulators.

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Cynics might call this whole exercise self-serving and hypocritical, but such apparent honesty is so rare in corporate reports that it is disarming.

ECONOMIST: Guzzler puzzler

Meeting some of today's teenagers in the place where I spent my adolescence, I find myself admiring their self-discipline and generosity while regretting the apparent muting of youthful challenge and confrontation.

BBC: Should we despair at the kids of today?

We never give up, we have tremendous self belief and confidence, and that's very apparent in the way we play.

BBC: Roy Hodgson proud as Fulham reach Europa League final

Mr Kotter, an expert on leadership at Harvard Business School, based his book almost exclusively on the late Konosuke Matsushita, a self-effacing entrepreneur who, with no education, no money and no apparent connections, somehow managed to build the world's biggest electronics firm from nothing, beginning in the 1920s.

ECONOMIST: The complex lives of legal persons

The remake muddies the waters with self-consciousness: Scorsese and the screenwriter, Wesley Strick, have loaded the movie with apparent moral ambiguities, facile ideas about guilt and redemption, and explicit attempts to portray the scuzzy villain as a mythic nemesis.

NEWYORKER: Cape Fear