LITTLE ROCK — Lt. J.P. Bevering of the White Settlement, Texas, Police Department, said officers are looking for Darren Porter, 41, a robbery suspect who managed to roll down a back window of a squad car, open the car door and drive off with the vehicle, all while handcuffed.

Nelson Mandela, 94, former president of South Africa, underwent more medical tests in a Pretoria military hospital where he was admitted Saturday, government officials said.

Dick Armey, who until recently led the Tea Party group FreedomWorks, said on CBS’ This Morning show that Republican losses in last month’s congressional elections can be chalked up to some candidates saying some “stupid things” that GOP leaders should have taught them to avoid saying.

Matthew Good of Fountain Hills, Ariz., was revealed to be the second winner of November’s $587.5 million Powerball jackpot, and the 37-year-old electronics-industry professional took the one-time payout of $192 million, telling lottery officials the looming “fiscal cliff ” was the reason he claimed the winnings now.

Kevin Clash, the longtime Elmo puppeteer who resigned from Sesame Street last month amid sex-abuse allegations, one of which was promptly recanted, is being sued by a man who contends the voice actor befriended him in Miami and promised to be a father figure before flying the teen to New York to have sex with him.

Ed Koch, 87, former mayor of New York City, has been released from a Manhattan hospital where he was treated for pneumonia and flu.

Meredith Nadeau, the schools superintendent in Cape Elizabeth, Maine, said nine students were suspended and police were investigating after several students fell ill after eating marijuanalaced cookies during a daylong high school event addressing the school district’s guiding values of “Community, Academics, Passion and Ethics.”

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