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.

A teenager in eastern Australia needed eleven stitches after a small shark bit his leg. It happened in the area where some beaches were closed over the weekend because of a feeding frenzy involving more than 100 sharks. The teen was standing in about a foot of water when he was bitten. The attack follows the weekend closure of Gold Coast beaches after scores of sharks were seen swimming close to the shore.

The University of Vermont is hoping its cat has nine lives. The cat is really a mascot that's part of sign - a 200-pound, nine-foot by seven foot aluminum snarling mascot that is jumping through an oversized V. The sign had been taken to a South Burlington business for updating when it disappeared Jan. 27. The big hunk of aluminum featuring a snarling catamount jumping through an oversized "V" was due for updated graphics and had been taken to Sign-A-Rama at 3037 Williston Road in South Burlington. Before the work could be done, the sign was stolen. It disappeared between Jan. 27 and Thursday, South Burlington Police said. University of Vermont officials want the cat to come home. The plan is to give it a makeover and display it on Patrick Gymnasium, not far from a twin sign that already has been updated.

A 24-year-old man's punishment for punching a police horse may entail shoveling horse manure. According to the Associated Press, Butte County Superior Court Judge Stephen Benson sentenced Robert William Huff, of Chico, to 20 hours of community service and 24 hours in jail after pleading no contest Tuesday to a charge of assaulting a police horse.

A 24-year-old man may be facing a lot of manure in his future, as part of punishment for punching a police horse. Robert Huff has been sentenced to 20 hours of community service and jail time of 24 hours after pleading no contest to assaulting a police horse.