Monica Haynes is on assignment. This was compiled from wire and Web reports.

J.K. Rowling said she contemplated suicide, as she suffered from depression before her rise to success, according to an interview with a student journalist.

The Harry Potter author said she had suicidal thoughts in her mid-20s, when she was a single mother and struggling to establish a literary career.

"Mid-20s life circumstances were poor, and I really plummeted," Rowling said, according to an interview posted online by student journalist Adeel Amini.

Rowling said in the interview, parts of which were published in Edinburgh University's Student magazine, that she sought help from doctors and spent nine months receiving cognitive behavioral therapy, according to Amini.

"We're talking suicidal thoughts here, we're not talking, 'I'm a little bit miserable,'" Rowling, 42, was quoted as saying.

Rowling has previously said she suffered depression before her Harry Potter series brought her international success. She has acknowledged that characters featured in the series called Dementors were inspired by her illness.

The author has said she sought medical help following her separation from first husband Jorge Arantes, a Portuguese journalist.

Fortune magazine ranks Rowling, who wrote seven Harry Potter novels, as one of the richest women in Britain, with an estimated wealth of $1 billion.

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Grammy-winning Tejano singer Emilio Navaira was critically injured Sunday when his band's bus crashed on a highway in the Houston area.

Navaira and his band Rio had performed at a Houston nightclub on Saturday night. At about 5 a.m. Sunday, the band's bus slammed into traffic barrels on Interstate 610 northbound in Bellaire, a well-to-do enclave within the city west of downtown Houston, Bellaire police Sgt. Daniel Kerr said.

Navaira was one of eight passengers on the bus who were injured. He was listed in critical condition at Memorial Hermann Hospital, where he was being treated in the intensive care unit.

He had surgery Sunday to remove a blood clot in his head, said Joe Casias, his agent, who was at the hospital.

Navaira remained in critical condition early Monday, said Casey Smith, the hospital's operations administrator.

The bus was the only vehicle involved, Kerr said. Initial news reports, based on video from traffic cameras at the scene, had said three vehicles were involved.

Navaira, 45, and Rio have released more than a dozen albums, including "Acuerdate," which won the 2003 Grammy for best Tejano album.

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The husband of Grammy-nominated British singer Corinne Bailey Rae has been found dead.

Police say Jason Rae, 31, a saxophonist with a funk band, the Haggis Horns, was found in an apartment in the northern English city of Leeds on Saturday. Officers are awaiting results of toxicology tests to determine the cause of death.

A 32-year-old man was arrested on suspicion of supplying him with drugs but has been released on bail, officials said.

Bailey Rae's self-titled debut album sold more than 1 million copies in the U.S. after its release in 2006. She was nominated for song of the year at the Grammy Awards in both 2007 and 2008.

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The ex-wife of French President Nicolas Sarkozy tied the knot Sunday night at the famed Rainbow Room in New York's Rockefeller Center, French newspapers reported.

Although details about the nuptials have been kept under wraps, Le Figaro and Liberation said in Monday editions that Cecilia Ciganer-Albeniz -- the former Mrs. Sarkozy -- married Richard Attias, an events planner. The two dailies didn't identify their sources.

The wedding ceremony and reception at the 65th floor Rainbow Room was scheduled to draw 150 guests, culminating three days of private festivities that began with a party on Friday at Attias' house in Connecticut.

The marriage is the third for 50-year-old Ciganer-Albeniz. Her first husband was French television personality Jacques Martin. Attias, a 48-year-old Moroccan-born multimillionaire, is the president of Paris-based Publicis Events Worldwide.

Ciganer-Albeniz left Sarkozy in May 2005 to live with Attias, but returned to Sarkozy's side in the run-up to France's presidential elections last spring. Their divorce was announced in October, ending an 11-year marriage.

Last month, the French leader married Carla Bruni, the Italian-born singer and former model. Their quick courtship led to a glitzy February wedding.

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B.B. King is the new owner of a juke joint in his Mississippi Delta hometown.

Mary Shepard has owned Club Ebony in Indianola for the past three decades. King and other artists have played there throughout the years.

A Mississippi Delta Blues Trail Marker outside Club Ebony says Count Basie, Ray Charles, James Brown and Ike Turner are among the musicians who have played there since 1945.

Shepard says she sold the club to the bluesman because she wants to relax and spend time with her family. Indianola is about halfway between Jackson and Memphis.

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Dolly Parton is trying to get some hits with her latest album, "Backwoods Barbie."

Parton, whose business portfolio includes a theme park and an entertainment production company, says she's spending a lot of her own money trying to get back on country radio with her new CD.

"I'm looking at it like an investment," she said. "I thought, 'I've made enough money. I can afford to invest a little in myself.'"

She has self-released the disc on her own label, Dolly Records, and hired a seven-member promotions team.

"I purposely tailor-made this to try to get some hits," Parton explained.

The album reached No. 2 on Billboard in its second week, her best showing in 17 years.