A high school girl has her artificial leg stolen - for the second time. Last November, a thief stole Melissa Huff's prosthetic leg from her suburban Los Angeles home, taking video games and other items, as well. This time the burglar took a 12-thousand-dollar cosmetic leg and a donated 16-thousand-dollar "sports" leg Huff uses to play competitive softball.

New Zealand filmmaker Lee Tamahori, who directed the James Bond movie "Die Another Day," has been arrested in a Hollywood prostitution sting while dressed in drag, AFP reports. According to a criminal complaint filed in the Los Angeles Superior Court, Tamahori, 55, was arrested on January 8 when he allegedly sought sex with an undercover policeman while clad in women's clothes.

Film director Lee Tamahori was arrested for soliticing prostitution while dressed in women's clothes. The 55-year-old director of "Once Were Warriors" and "Die Another Day" allegedly tried to have sex with an undercover policeman, according to a criminal complaint filed in Los Angeles Superior Court.

Fox has dashed Terrell and Derrell Brittenum's dreams of becoming the next American Idols. The 28-year-old identical twin brothers were "uninvited" from the competition after their criminal records became public, their lawyer said. The Brittenums made their mark on American Idol during the first episode of the fifth season, when they wowed the judges at the Chicago auditions and earned passes to Hollywood. But the Tennessee natives' brush with glory turned out to be short-lived, as the brothers soon landed behind bars on charges that they used another man's identity and financial information last June to purchase a 2005 Dodge Magnum in Atlanta. Both Brittenums refused extradition to Georgia, which led to additional charges against them.

Officials say the Los Angeles middle school attended by renowned attorney Johnnie Cochran Jr. will be renamed in his honor. The Los Angeles Unified School District Board of Education voted unanimously Tuesday to rename the Mt. Vernon Middle School after the attorney, who was best known for his representation of O. J. Simpson.