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Warrant: Minnesota doctor saw Prince, prescribed drugs

CHANHASSEN, Minn.

A Minnesota doctor saw Prince twice in the month before his death, including the day before he died, and prescribed him medication, according to contents of a search warrant that were revealed Tuesday even as authorities revisited the musician’s estate.

Dr. Michael Todd Schulenberg treated Prince on April 7 and April 20, and he prescribed “medications and prescriptions” for the musician, according to the warrant, which was filed Thursday in Hennepin County and obtained by at least two news outlets before authorities moved to ensure it was sealed.

Investigators interviewed Schulenberg and searched a suburban Minneapolis hospital where he worked. The warrant did not specify what medications were prescribed for Prince or whether he took them.

Contents of the warrant were revealed the same day that authorities returned to Prince’s Paisley Park home and studio in suburban Minneapolis where he was found dead April 21. A sheriff’s vehicle entered through the gates of Paisely Park on Tuesday afternoon, followed by about a dozen unmarked vehicles. Asked why investigators had returned to Paisely Park, Carver County Sheriff’s Chief Deputy Jason Kamerud told The Associated Press by phone that they were “being thorough.”

‘Good Wife’ finishes run in Nielsen’s top 5

NEW YORK

The CBS drama “The Good Wife” is on pace to record its biggest audience in more than a year with a series finale that had more than a few of its loyal fans talking.

The Nielsen company said an estimated 10.6 million people watched Sunday’s finale. That is the show’s biggest audience on the night of its original airing since November 2014.

That finale left inconclusive the question of whether Alicia Florrick, played by series star Julianna Margulies, would divorce her pol husband and run off with her current lover. It also ended with a resounding slap, applied to Florrick by her law partner for exposing the affair of that woman’s husband in a court of law.

For a series widely regarded as broadcast television’s best drama, it was an ending that left many fans talking about their dissatisfaction online.

CBS easily won the week in prime time, averaging 7.9 million viewers. NBC had 5.5 million, ABC had 5.4 million, Fox had 2.7 million, Univision had 1.7 million, the CW had 1.5 million, Telemundo had 1.3 million and ION Television had 1.1 million. TNT was the week’s most popular cable network, averaging 2.62 million viewers. Fox News Channel had 2.25 million, ESPN had 1.6 million, USA had 1.53 million and HGTV had 1.42 million.

Associated Press