Catherine Bach's husband dies in apparent suicide

LOS ANGELES —

A successful entertainment profession who was married to thespian Catherine Bach was found passed in an strong suicide Friday, coroners officials said.

Peter Lopez, 60, died of a gunshot wound during his home in a Encino Hills, coroner's office operations chief Craig Harvey said.

A neighbor reported hearing a shot as well as someone during a home found Lopez's body, coroners officials said.

Bach as well as her dual daughters suffered a "tragic personal loss," pronounced her publicist, Steve Rohr.

Bach played Daisy Duke in a 1980s TV series "The Dukes of Hazzard."

Lopez was Michael Jackson's song profession for several years, according to Alfred Newman, a orator for a organisation Lopez helped found, Kleinberg Lopez Lange Cuddy & Klein. He also represented The Eagles, Andrea Bocelli as well as Michael Buble.

"We are deeply repelled as well as saddened by a astonishing loss of a friend as well as partner," a organisation pronounced in a statement.

Lopez worked with singers, jot down producers as well as songwriters as well as was a co-producer of a Jennifer Lopez movie "Selena," a biopic about a dear Tejano thespian who was killed by a boss of her air blower club.

Raymone Bain, Michael Jackson's former ubiquitous manager, pronounced she hired Peter Lopez in 2006 as Jackson's entertainment profession when she was reorganizing a singer's business affairs.

"I'd known Peter for 20 years," she said. When she was searching for a new legal group she pronounced an additional of her clients, R&B thespian Babyface, recommended Lopez.

"I can't consider of a nicer individual," she said. "He was a great guy. I'm just so shocked."

She pronounced Lopez trafficked with her as well as Jackson to London for a World Music Awards as well as spoke to a thespian quite often.

Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger allocated ! Lopez to a California State Athletic Commission, that regulates boxing, as well as as a director of a California Exposition as well as State Fair Board.

Lopez attended UCLA Law School.

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Associated Press Writer Anthony McCartney as well as Special Correspondent Linda Deutsch contributed to this report.

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'Sesame Street Live' comes to Everett, Tacoma

'Sesame Street Live — 1-2-3 Imagine!'

In this live theatre instrumentation of the long-running PBS staple, Elmo as well as his friends (including Big Bird) make use of their imaginations to revisit sparkling lost locations, together with the tall seas as well as an African rain forest. Performances during dual locations: 7 p.m. Tuesday as well as 10:30 a.m. as well as 7 p.m. Wednesday during Tacoma Dome, 2727 E. D St., Tacoma, $11-$29 (800-745-3000 or www.ticketmaster.com); as well as 10:30 a.m. as well as 7 p.m. Friday, 10:30 a.m. as well as 2 p.m. Saturday as well as 2 p.m. Sunday during Comcast Arena, 2000 Hewitt Ave. Everett, $11-$29 (800-332-8499 or www.comcastarenaeverett.com).

Doug Knoop, Seattle Times staff

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Prince Harry passes British army pilot's course

LONDON —

Just call him Your Royal Fly-ness: Prince Harry has successfully finished a march to fly British armed forces helicopters.

A statement from his London bureau Friday said a king upheld his final tests progressing this week - as well as will get his wings May 7 from his father, Prince Charles.

Prince Harry, who is third in line to a British throne as well as is well known in a military as Lt. Harry Wales, will learn afterwards either he will fly Lynx or Apache helicopters for a Army Air Corps.

Flying is in this family's royal blood: Harry's older brother, William, is guidance to fly search-and-rescue choppers. Charles competent as a helicopter commander in 1974, as well as their uncle, Prince Andrew, flew a Royal Navy helicopter during a Falklands War.

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Oprah: Drivers, put down your phones

WASHINGTON —

Oprah Winfrey wants America's drivers to acknowledgement their cars "No Phone Zones."

"It's similar to Russian roulette each time we pick up your phone in a car," Winfrey told her viewers from Chicago on Friday. She dedicated her TV uncover to urging people to sign pledges not to discuss or text from at a back of a wheel.

Safety advocates goal Winfrey's star power will bring attention to a flourishing scourge of dreaming drivers, who have been blamed for an estimated 6,000 deaths as well as a half-million injuries a year.

The advocates goal to mimic a success of safety campaigns in a 1980s that helped reduce inebriated driving deaths as well as increased a make make use of of of chair belts.

"We need to unequivocally mangle people's bad habits," Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood pronounced during a Washington rally against dreaming driving. "Everybody has a bad habit of meditative they can speak on their phone or text as well as drive, as well as we can't do it safely."

Twenty-four states as well as a District of Columbia demarcate drivers from texting at a back of a wheel; 6 states bar drivers from regulating hand-held dungeon phones.

Congress is considering legislation to pull all states to ban texting by drivers, as well as a sovereign supervision is enlivening all states to restrict dungeon phone make make use of of at a back of a wheel.

Since Winfrey launched her debate in January, more than 200,000 people have taken a pledge. They can choose one of 3 promises for their driving: no texting; no texting as well as only handsfree calling; or no texting or calls.

Friday's promote included "No Phone Zone" rallies in Detroit, Boston, Los Angeles, Atlanta as well as Washington.

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On a Net:

Oprah's No Phone Zone Pledge: http://www.oprah.com/

Transportation Department: http://www.distraction.gov

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