Mariah Carey reveals she has bipolar disorder
NEW YORK — Mariah Carey revealed Wednesday she has been diagnosed with bipolar disorder.
The singer discussed her diagnosis in an exclusive interview with People magazine, and tweeted about the experience early Wednesday, saying she is “grateful to be sharing this part of my journey.”
In an abbreviated version of the interview posted on People.com, Carey says she was diagnosed with bipolar II in 2001 after she was hospitalized for a physical and mental breakdown.
Bipolar II disorder involves periods of depression and hypomania, the latter being a less severe version of mania, according to the National Institutes of Health.
Symptoms of mania can include feeling energetic, creative and euphoric, according to the nonprofit organization Help Guide. People experiencing hypomania may experience similar feelings, which can result in poor or harmful decision making, but can often carry on with their daily lives. Both mania and hypomania, however, may be followed up by severe depressive episodes.
Carey told People:
“For a long time I thought I had a severe sleep disorder. … But it wasn’t normal insomnia and I wasn’t lying awake counting sheep. I was working and working and working … I was irritable and in constant fear of letting people down. It turns out that I was experiencing a form of mania. Eventually I would just hit a wall. I guess my depressive episodes were characterized by having very low energy. I would feel so lonely and sad — even guilty that I wasn’t doing what I needed to be doing for my career.”
The New York-born artist has won a slew of awards over the course of her 30-year career, including five Grammys, and has released 14 albums and appeared in more than a dozen movies.
She has 6-year-old twins who she co-parents with her ex-husband, fellow artist Nick Cannon.
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Cops release suspect sketch in unsolved 1987 murder of young couple
Tanya Van Cuylenborg, 18 (L) Jay Cook, 20 (R) 1987 photo
EVERETT, Wash. – Investigators are hoping new sketches based on the latest DNA technology will provide a breakthrough in the unsolved 1987 murders of a young Canadian couple in Washington state.
Tanya Van Cuylenborg, 18, and Jay Cook, 20, were found dead in two separate locations in Western Washington after they failed to return home from a visit to the Seattle area more than 30 years ago. Several promising leads in the case over the years have failed to pan out, and the young couple’s killer has never been caught.
But now investigators with the Snohomish County Sheriff’s Office are hoping a series of three portraits of the suspect created with snapshot DNA phenotyping will provide a long-sought break in the case.
Sketch based on DNA evidence evidence shows sketch of suspected killer at different ages. (Photo Snochmish County sheriffs office )
In a Wednesday news conference, sheriff’s officials said they hope the portraits, which show the suspect at three different ages – 25, 45 and 65 – will help solve the murder. They said the suspect’s hair could have been longer and he may have been slimmer or chubbier than shown.
According to police, Van Cuylenborg and Cook left their Victoria, B.C., homes on Nov. 18, 1987, for an overnight trip to Seattle. They were driving a brown 1977 Ford van, and took the ferry across the Strait of Juan de Fuca to Port Angeles.
The purpose of the trip was to buy furnace parts for Cooks’ family business. The couple planned to sleep in the van in Seattle’s SoDo district overnight, purchase the furnace parts the next morning and then travel back to Canada.
After arriving in Washington state, Van Cuylenborg and Cook drove the van to Bremerton and took the ferry to Seattle. They were never seen alive again after that.
When the couple failed to return home, their families filed a missing persons report two days later.
On Nov. 24, a man walking on an isolated road in Skagit County discovered Van Cuylenborg’s half-naked body in a roadside ditch along Carsons Creek Road between Old Highway 99 and Prairie Road. She had been sexually assaulted, bound with plastic ties and shot in the back of the head with a .380 caliber bullet.
On Nov. 25, Van Cuylenborg’s wallet and keys, along with a pair of surgical gloves and a half-empty box of .380 ammunition, were found discarded under the back porch of a tavern in Bellingham.
The locked van was found about a block east of the tavern, next to the Greyhound bus station. Inside the van were plastic ties of the same type used to bind Van Cuylenborg and plastic gloves. A witness said the van had been parked there since Nov. 21.
Cook’s battered body was found on Nov. 26 – Thanksgiving Day – under a tattered blue blanket by the side of the High Bridge on Crescent Lake Road about three-quarters of a mile west of the Washington State Reformatory’s Honor Farm near Monroe in Snohomish County. He had been beaten and strangled, and the same type of plastic ties were found there.
“The person who did this camed prepared to do a brutal crime,” said Snohomish County Cold Case Detective Jim Scharf.
The police were able to obtain the suspect’s DNA from the van, although there has been no match on any criminal database.
Investigators believe that the couple met their killer on one of the ferries, most likely the Bremerton-Seattle ferry, and offered him a ride when reaching Seattle.
In the months after the murders, both victims’ families received a series of taunting greeting cards featuring descriptions of the murders. The cards were postmarked from Seattle, Los Angeles and New York, and were written by the same person.
Scharf said several items belonging to the victims have never been found, including a green canvas backpack and a black jacket belonging to Cook and a Minolta Model x700 35-mm camera with serial number 2067048 belonging to Van Cuylenborg.
Over the years, police have had some promising leads in the case.
– In 1990, a lens from Van Cuylenborg’s missing camera was found in a Portland, Ore., pawn shop, but it could not be linked to a suspect.
– In 2000, police suspected Spokane serial killer Robert Yates might be behind their deaths. But he was later cleared.
– In 2010, it was announced that the writer of the greeting cards may have been found, but later confirmed that he was not the killer and had no connection to the crime.
Scharf said investigators have never given up hope of solving the case because “we do have DNA evidence that will identify the killer.”
“We believe someone out there knows something that will helkp us solve this horrible crime,” he said, adding that the smallest detail could be important.
A $50,000 reward has been offered for information that would solve the case, if provided by Dec. 31. A tip line has been set up at 425-388-3845.
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Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg will testify before the House Energy and Commerce Committee over his handling of user data.
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg will testify before the House Energy and Commerce Committee over his handling of user data. This comes less than 24 hours after a grueling testimony before the Senate where several Senators attacked Facebook for failing to protect user information. Via USA TODAY FB PAGE
Guy orders 1’000 McDonald’s Happy Meals to feed the homeless!
That’s what’s up!! Here’s a feel good story for a Wednesday !
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FOX’s @TomiLahren Wanted Jay Z to prove Trump is a Racist
This white racist girl is so stupid it hurts. The hypocrisy is real with this one.
Welcome to Sweetie Pie’s’ To End After 5 Seasons On OWN, Sets Premiere Date
This marks an end of a chapter in OWN: Oprah Winfrey Network’s history — the network’s popular docuseries Welcome to Sweetie Pie’s will end after its upcoming fifth season, which is set to premiere with a special sneak preview on Tuesday, May 1 at 10 PM, following Tyler Perry’s The Haves and The Have Nots. The series about the behind-the-scenes drama at a family-operated soul food empire, will continue in its regular time slot on Saturdays beginning May 5.
Welcome to Sweetie Pie’s was OWN’s first breakout hit that helped the network find its identity and start catering more to African American audiences. It became a signature series for OWN, which found stability, ratings growth and more hits. It ranks as the #2 original Saturday-night series in OWN history among the network’s core demo of women 25-54 and in total viewers and was 2017’s #2 original cable series on Saturday nights for African American women.
“For nearly seven years, our viewers have fallen in love and followed an incredible journey with Miss Robbie, Tim and the whole family,” said Erik Logan, president, OWN. “It comes with immense gratitude and appreciation as we send off the series for its final season and make OWN history celebrating 100 memorable episodes.”
Welcome to Sweetie Pie’s will mark its 100th episode finale on Saturday, June 9 with a special 60-minute after-show immediately following the finale. Hosted by comedian/actress Kym Whitley, the special will feature Miss Robbie, Tim, Charles, Monique, Jan, Linda and Cousin Michelle, as they share behind-the-scenes stories from the run of the entire series.
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‘Welcome to Sweetie Pie’s’ To End After 5 Seasons On OWN, Sets Premiere Date
Woman arrested for beheading boyfriend asks cops to ‘let me get my heads’
A West Virginia woman was arrested for beheading her boyfriend before telling cops, “You have to take me back and let me get my heads,” as they drove her away from the bloody scene, authorities said.
A judge in Mercer County said further assessment is needed to evaluate the mental competency of Roena Cheryl Mills, who is charged with second-degree murder in the death of 29-year-old Bo Allen White, WVNS reported.
Mills, according to court documents obtained by the station, was found covered in blood while wearing a glove on her left hand when deputies responded on April 1 to a home on Eden Valley Road in Lerona.
Using a fake name, Mills, 41, told responding deputies she was cut and left bloodied after being thrown through a glass door. She then got combative with officers and was placed under arrest. Once inside a deputy’s cruiser, Mills reportedly said: “You have to take me back and let me get my heads.”
Later that day, cops were tipped off to the decapitated body of a man found on another block in town. A different, unidentified part of his body was also found where Mills was arrested, WVNS reports.
The killing, according to the criminal complaint, was a “decapitation homicide,” Mercer County Prosecuting Attorney George Sitler said.
“That’s how it appears,” Sitler told West Virginia MetroNews.
A court-ordered mental status evaluation will determine if Mills can face trial in White’s brutal death. The case will then be presented to a grand jury in June. If 12 of 16 grand jurors find probable cause in the alleged killing, Mills will be indicted either on a first- or second-degree murder charge, according to the prosecutor.
“Even though she’s only been initially charged with second-degree murder because there was some initial doubt about premeditation, [the] grand jury could certainly indict her for first-degree murder,” Sitler told the station.
Mills, of Rural Retreat, Virginia, remained in custody at the Southern Regional Jail in Raleigh on $210,000 cash-only bail as of Monday, jail records show.
While in custody at the jail, Mills — who was dating White, according to his father — had been talking about killing someone, employees told WVNS.
Deputies were called to the second home after its owners saw someone suspicious in their driveway, WVNews reports. A glove matching one that Mills was wearing at the time was found earlier at White’s home, according to the station.
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Mom arrested after toddler eats marijuana-laced mac and cheese
ARIZONA — An Arizona mother has been arrested after authorities allege her nearly 2-year-old daughter ate mac and cheese that was prepared with THC butter.
According to police, 25-year-old Alaina Limpert was taken into custody Wednesday after someone in her home alerted authorities that the girl had eaten the marijuana-laced food.
Per KTVK, cops say Limpert did not take her daughter in for medical treatment when she realized what had happened. Instead, the police report says Limpert “laughed about the side effects the child experienced during that time and then proceeded to place her into their backyard pool to use the cold water to ‘shock’ her.”
Two days later, a call to the Department of Child Safety led to all three children being taken away from Limpert and her husband’s home. Healthcare officials would reportedly later confirm the girl had THC, the active ingredient in marijuana, in her system.
Police say Limpert admitted she made the mac and cheese for her husband, but that he did not know her daughter had ingested it.
Per the police report, cops found marijuana grow tents in the home’s garage as well as mushrooms, hash oil, and drug paraphernalia. Limpert was arrested on charges of child abuse, marijuana possession and cultivation, and other charges.
She is due in court April 19th.
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Florida woman blames ‘windy day’ for cocaine found in purse – “It’s a windy day. It must have flown through the window and into my purse.”
FORT PIERCE, Fla. — A woman in Florida blamed a “windy day” after a police officer found cocaine in her purse.
Kennecia Posey, 26, was in a vehicle stopped by Fort Pierce police last month after the vehicle was swerving in the roadway, WPLG reports.
According to the police report obtained by the station, a police officer found cocaine and marijuana in separate bags inside a purse on Posey’s lap.
Although Posey admitted the marijuana was hers, the cocaine was a different story.
“I don’t know anything about any cocaine,” Posey said, according to a police report. “It’s a windy day. It must have flown through the window and into my purse.”
Posey was jailed on one count each of cocaine possession and marijuana possession.
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Mom, boyfriend accused of beating 4-year-old to death over spilled cereal
PHILADELPHIA – A Pennsylvania mother and her boyfriend are accused of beating a 4-year-old boy to death for spilling his cereal, KYW reports.
Lisa Smith, 19, and her 26-year-old boyfriend, Keiff King, have been charged with murder in connection with the Jan. 22 death of Tahjir Smith.
Paramedics found the 4-year-old unresponsive inside a home in Willow Grove, a suburb of Philadelphia. Lisa Smith, the boy’s mother, initially told police she was walking home from a local mall when Tahjir became “wobbly” and struggled to breathe.
But his death was recently ruled a homicide after an autopsy showed that he died of multiple blunt and thermal injuries, as well as shock.
Smith admitted to police that she disciplined the boy, who she said was acting “sneaky” and started stuttering – something he did out of fear, according to KYW.
The boy was reportedly forced to hold a push-up position for a long period of time. When he dropped from the position, Smith and her boyfriend allegedly hit him on the head and struck his body repeatedly with a sandal.
The boyfriend also admitted to throwing the 4-year-old under a scalding shower after the boy urinated on himself, which an expert later discovered burned his shoulder, prosecutors said.
Paramedics found Tahjir “limp and unresponsive,” according to WDRB. He was pronounced dead at an area hospital.
The autopsy also revealed old rib fractures, showing that the beating that led to the boy’s death was not the first time he was abused.
Smith and King are both due back in court April 18.