Official says Caminiti died of drug overdose
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Former baseball National League MVP Ken Caminiti died of an accidental drug overdose, a spokeswoman for the New York City medical examiner said Monday.
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Former NL Most Valuable Player Ken Caminiti is due back in a Houston courtroom Tuesday because of an alleged positive drug test that would be a violation of his probation for cocaine possession.
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A teenager dies from a suspected drugs overdose after an apparent suicide pact with her best friend.
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The death last month of troubled 25-year-old actor Brad Renfro was caused by a heroin and morphine overdose, according to the coroner's report released Friday. The Los Angeles County coroner's office ruled Renfro's death was accidental. His body was found on Jan. 15 in his home.
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Ken Caminiti, a former National Baseball League most valuable player who in 2002 admitted he used steroids, has died in New York at the age of 41.
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Ken Caminiti, the popular and powerful former National League MVP whose troubled life after baseball included bouts with cocaine and a jail stay, died yesterday at Lincoln Hospital in the Bronx.
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A drug overdose killed former baseball star Ken Caminiti, who tested positive for cocaine in the weeks before he died at age 41 and had admitted using steroids during his playing days, the city medical examiner ruled Monday.
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A 92-year-old man died of a heart attack after a junior doctor gave him a drugs overdose, an inquest hears.
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According to reports that surfaced earlier this week, the New York medical examinerâs office has declared that rapper Olâ Dirty Bastard died of an accidental overdose.
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The death of the influential Southern rapper Pimp C, below, has been ruled an accident attributable to an overdose of drugs celebrated by Three 6 Mafia and the Pimp C group Underground Kingz in the 2000 single âSippinâ on Some Syrup,â The Associated Press reported. The Los Angeles County coronerâs office identified the drugs as codeine and promethazine, essential ingredients of âsyrup.â The coronerâs office said Pimp C, whose real name was Chad Butler, had sleep apnea, an ailment that can cause breathing during sleep to stop for as long as 30 seconds. Capt. Ed Winter of the coronerâs office said that sleep apnea, combined with large amounts of prescription-strength cough syrup, killed Pimp C on Dec. 4 in West Hollywood, Calif. He was 33.
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One-time National League Most Valuable Player and Bay Area native Ken Caminiti is dead. Caminiti&#39;s agent says the former Houston Astros and Texas Rangers third baseman died of a heart attack in the Bronx.
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Former U.S. figure skating champion Christopher Bowman died of a suspected drug overdose in a Los Angeles motel on Thursday, authorities said. He was 40.
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New York -- Former Houston Astros slugger Ken Caminiti died today at age 41. The 1996 National League MVP admitted during his major league career that he had used steroids.
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Former Houston Astro and National League Most Valuable Player Ken Caminiti died last month from an accidental drug overdose, the New York City Medical Examiner&#39;s Office announced Monday.
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Former Houston Astro Ken Caminiti admitted violating his probation on a drug conviction two years ago, but walked out of the Harris County Jail on Tuesday a free man, determined to start a drug-free life.
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Investigators blame overdose for death of the blues legend in his California home last month
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Heath Ledger died as the result of an overdose of prescription medication, the New York City medical examiner's office said Tuesday.