Rick James Autopsy Inconclusive
From Yahoo and Reuters:

An autopsy performed over the weekend on "Super Freak" singer Rick James failed to establish the cause of his death, a Los Angeles County coroner's spokesman said on Monday.

The autopsy found..."no obvious sign" of what caused the 56-year-old funk music pioneer's death, coroner's spokesman David Campbell said....

James suffered from diabetes and had a pacemaker. He had been in fragile health since suffering a stroke in 1998 after bursting a blood vessel at a concert in Denver....

Despite his family's belief that the self proclaimed "icon of drug use and eroticism" died of natural causes, coroner's officials removed James' body from the mortuary because his death certificate was not signed by a doctor, Campbell said.

"It was originally thought that the attending physician would sign the death certificate (but) he couldn't because he had not attended Mr. James recently," Campbell said....