The same party was denied permission to rally Saturday outside a U.N. building, BNA reported.

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McCready sold 1.8 million records during her career, 1.2 million of which were her first, recorded with BNA Records (now a label of Sony Music).

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Melinda Gayle McCready arrived in Nashville in 1994 still in her teens with tapes of her karaoke vocals and earned a recording contract with BNA Records.

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Bahrain's state news agency BNA reported the government will take legal action against protesters "who committed violations" during Friday's rally, organized in part by Al Wefaq, Bahrain's main Shiite opposition party.

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