An Arkansas inmate escaped twice in one week – including once after his wife had a forged letter authorizing his release faxed to the jail from a McDonald’s.

Tristian Wilson, 20, was in custody Friday and being treated for a broken leg he apparently suffered after jumping from a second-story window in his second escape bid.

Wilson first escaped Oct. 30. Jailers freed him after receiving a letter written by a “detective” authorizing his release. Cops say Wilson’s wife forged the letter and fooled a Mickey D’s worker into faxing it.

A California school district can’t find the reclusive winner of Tuesday’s school-board election.

The man, Steve Rocco of Santa Ana, filed the paperwork to run for the Orange Unified School Board last July but never campaigned.

No one answers his door, he has no phone number on record, and mail sent to him is returned.

All hunting in the western Pyrenees has been suspended to protect a bear cub orphaned this week when its mother was killed by a hunter.

In what French Environment Minister Serge Lepeltier called “an ecological catastrophe,” the cub’s mother, the last female brown bear native to the region, was shot after she attacked a hunting dog.

Officials, determined to find the gun-wielding weasel responsible, are running ballistics tests.

Revise that old saying about an apple a day – make it a chocolate-covered apple a day keeps the doctor away.

A German insurance company is urging its customers to eat more chocolate to lessen the risk of heart attacks. It recommends up to a bar a day.

But as with most medical advice, there also was a warning: Eating too much chocolate can lead to obesity and increased risk of heart disease.

A British TV channel is seeking a volunteer to participate in a new show – but only the terminally ill need apply.

Publicly funded Channel 4 wants someone to donate his or her body after death so it can be filmed as it decomposes.

The program, planned in association with London’s Science Museum, is tentatively titled “Dust to Dust.”