In a story which has made the headlines in the US, country music singer Mindy McReady has been arrested again, this time in Fort Myers.

In a story which has made the headlines in the US, country music singer Mindy McReady has been arrested again, this time in Fort Myers.

Police said there was evidence that McCready had been drinking and attacked her mother, scratching her mother's face. Officers pepper sprayed her because they said she refused to be handcuffed. She was charged with battery and obstruction of justice for resisting an officer but posted a $1,000 bond for her own release.

McCready has had a troubled past. In August of 2004, Williamson County Deputies arrested her for illegally getting a prescription painkiller at a pharmacy. She later pleaded guilty to those charges. In May of 2005, McCready was pulled over and arrested for drink driving but was found not guilty. In July of that year, authorities in Arizona charged her with fraud, but those charges were later dropped.

That same week she survived a widely publicized suicide attempt. The next month, police in Florida arrested her for violating her Williamson County probation. She is supposed to answer to those charges coming up in September.