Mariah Carey, Nick Cannon wed

People

Mariah Carey, 38, married Nick Cannon, 27, in the Bahamas last week, and they have the tattoos to prove it. The singer and the rapper-actor confirmed to People magazine that they tied the knot at Carey's Bahamian estate April 30 after a courtship that began in late March. In the magazine's May 19 issue, Cannon said they clicked instantly when Carey cast him as a lover in the video for her new single, "Bye Bye." A dozen guests attended their sunset wedding, where they served Maine lobster and Dom Perignon champagne. It was her second marriage; his first.

Star's still fighting

Nearly two years after Star Jones left "The View" on rocky terms, the TV personality has criticized former boss Barbara Walters for writing about her. In Walters' new memoir, "Audition," she discusses how Jones, now 46, wouldn't acknowledge her gastric-bypass surgery on the air. She also writes about Jones' lavish wedding, which alienated viewers as Jones accepted gifts in return for promotion. "It is a sad day when an icon like Barbara Walters, in the sunset of her life, is reduced to ... speaking negatively against me all for the sake of selling a book," Jones told Us Weekly magazine.

Whoopi to host Tonys

Whoopi Goldberg will serve as host of the 2008 Tony Awards June 15 at Radio City Music Hall, the show's executive producers said Thursday. Goldberg has hosted the Academy Awards ceremony four times.

Passages

Frances Yeend, 95, a Vancouver, Wash., native and internationally known soprano who once appeared regularly with the New York City Opera and the Metropolitan Opera, died April 27 in Morgantown, W.Va.

Bill Hargrove, 106, who was recognized last year as the nation's oldest league bowler, died Monday of congestive heart failure, four days shy of turning 107, at Northeast Georgia Medical Center in Gainesville.

Today in History

1754: A cartoon in Benjamin Franklin's Pennsylvania Gazette showed a snake cut into sections, each part representing an American colony; the caption read, "JOIN, or DIE."

1936: Italy annexed Ethiopia.

1961: FCC chairman Newton Minow decried the majority of television programming as a "vast wasteland" in a speech to the National Association of Broadcasters.

1978: The bullet-riddled body of former Italian Prime Minister Aldo Moro, who'd been abducted by the Red Brigades, was found in an automobile in the center of Rome.

1980: 35 people were killed when a freighter rammed the Sunshine Skyway Bridge over Tampa Bay in Florida, causing a 1,400-foot section to collapse.

Today's Birthdays

CBS News correspondent Mike Wallace, 90. Actress Candice Bergen, 62. Singer Billy Joel, 59. Actress Alley Mills, 57. Actor John Corbett, 47. Rapper Ghostface Killah, 38. Actress Rosario Dawson, 29. Actress Rachel Boston, 26. TV personality Audrina Patridge, 23.

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