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LITTLE ROCK — Amy Winehouse drank herself to death. The Grammy winning soul diva died with empty vodka bottles in her room and lethal amounts of alcohol in her blood - more than five times the British drunken driving limit, a British coroner ruled Wednesday. Coroner Suzanne Greenaway gave a verdict of “death by misadventure,” saying Wednesday that the singer suffered accidental alcohol poisoning when she resumed drinking after weeks of abstinence. “The unintended consequence of such potentially fatal levels [of alcohol] was her sudden and unexpected death,” Greenaway said. Winehouse, 27, had fought a very public battle with drug and alcohol abuse for years, and there had been much speculation that she died from a drug overdose. But a pathologist said the small amount of a drug prescribed to help her cope with the symptoms of alcohol withdrawal had nothing to do with her death. Instead, a resumption of heavy drinking killed the singer, best-known for her tall beehive hairdos and Grammy-winning album Back to Black. A security guard found Winehouse dead in bed at her London home on July 23. Winehouse gave up illicit drugs in 2008, but had swerved between heavy alcohol use and abstinence for a long time, said Dr. Christina Romete, who had treated Winehouse. Pathologist Suhail Baithun said Winehouse had a blood alcohol level of0.4 percent. The British and U.S. legal drunken-driving limit is 0.08 percent.

The Paraguayan dentist who treated Steven Tyler said the Aerosmith singer is “doing splendidly.” Dr. Maria Bastos also said Tyler was “friendly and humble” as he received two dental implants. She told the Monumental radio station on Wednesday that Tyler “surprised me with his cheerfulness.” Officials of the Garzia Group that is organizing the concert said the 63-year-old singer apparently became dizzy because of gastrointestinal problems and fell in his hotel bathroom. He suffered cuts and broke two teeth, forcing a one-day delay in a concert in the Paraguayan capital of Asuncion.