‘Kiss You in the Morning’ Singer Michael Ray Arrested for DUI
December 21, 2017 by admin
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Singer Michael Ray, who scored a 2015 country hit with “Kiss You in the Morning,” was arrested in Florida early Wednesday morning after police responded to the scene of a car accident.
According to the Orlando Sentinel, Ray, a native of Eustis, Florida, crashed his 2012 Jeep into the car in front of him at a McDonald’s drive-thru around 3:30 a.m. Police responding to the accident noticed his slurred speech and bloodshot eyes and conducted field sobriety tests. They also discovered a bottle of cannabis oil in his pocket after searching him. The 29-year-old, whose legal name is Michael Ray Roach, was arrested on suspicion of DUI and possession of marijuana.
Ray’s publicist declined to comment when contacted by Rolling Stone Country.
In 2015, Ray broke out with the Number One song “Kiss You in the Morning,” which appeared on his self-titled Warner Bros. debut LP from the same year. The follow-up “Real Men Love Jesus” didn’t fare as well, stalling at Number 17, but he returned to the upper reaches of the chart in 2016 with with Number Two-charting “Think a Little Less.” In July, Ray released “Get to You,” his first single from a forthcoming album.
More recently, he was among the artists selected to perform at the New Faces of Country Music showcase, which concludes the annual Country Radio Seminar in February. His next scheduled concert is February 1st in Thousand Oaks, California.
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Lawsuit claims USA gymnastics paid to quiet Olympic gold medalist McKayla Maroney
December 21, 2017 by admin
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Olympic gold medalist McKayla Maroney released a statement on Twitter claiming that was sexually abused by former USA Gymnastics team physician Larry Nassar.
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Olympic gymnast McKayla Maroney claims in a federal lawsuit filed Wednesday that USA Gymnastics tried to prevent her from publicly accusing former team doctor Larry Nassar of sexual abuse.
The lawsuit, which was filed in Los Angeles Superior Court and obtained by USA TODAY Sports, alleges that Maroney was forced to sign a confidentiality agreement as part of a financial settlement that she needed to pay for psychological treatment.
The suit claims that USA Gymnastics “had a plan to keep the sexual abuse of Nassar quiet, and allow Nassar to quietly leave USAG; further silencing his victims.”
“The US Olympic Committee and USA Gymnastics were well aware that the victim of child sexual abuse in California cannot be forced to sign a non-disclosure agreement as a condition of a settlement,” Maroney’s lawyer, John Manly, told The Indianapolis Star, which is part of the USA TODAY NETWORK. “Such agreements are illegal for very good reasons, they silence victims and allow perpetrators to continue committing their crimes. That is exactly what happened in this case.”
USA Gymnastics did not immediately respond to a request for comment from the newspaper.
The Wall Street Journal reported that Maroney’s settlement was worth $1.25 million.
While Manly told ESPN that his client willingly signed the settlement, he also said she was emotionally traumatized at the time by news that other gymnasts had suffered similar abuse. Maroney needed the money to pay for “lifesaving psychological treatment and care,” which coerced and pressured her into signing the confidentiality agreement, according to the lawsuit.
Maroney, an Olympic gold medalist, violated that agreement when she revealed on Twitter in October that she had been sexually abused by Nassar, who was sentenced to 60 years in federal prison earlier this month after pleading guilty to child pornography charges. The 22-year-old spoke out about the abuse using the hashtag #MeToo.
“I had a dream to go to the Olympics, and the things that I had to endure to get there were unnecessary and disgusting,” Maroney wrote.
USA Gymnastics subsequently released a statement that said, in part, that it “admires the courage of those, like McKayla Maroney, who have come forward to share their personal experiences with sexual abuse.”
The lawsuit filed Wednesday points to this statement, and a social-media post from the organization on Maroney’s birthday, as proof of an attempt at misdirection.
“(USA Gymnastics) publicly discussed the exact same subject matter it sought to conceal, only months prior, presumably, to divert the public from USAG’s misdeeds and associate itself with disclosure by McKayla Maroney, which it clearly tried to prevent with this unlawful agreement,” the lawsuit says.
The lawsuit also lists the U.S. Olympic Committee, Nassar and Michigan State University, where Nassar was employed, as defendants.
The Indianapolis Star, which is part of the USA TODAY NETWORK, contributed to this report.
Contact Tom Schad at tschad@usatoday.com or on Twitter @Tom_Schad.