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POSTED: 8:52 am EST March 3, 2006 UPDATED: 2:12 pm EST March 3, 2006 ARCADIA, Calif. -- A 16-year-old girl's prosthetic legs, which were stolen twice since November, have been quietly returned, police said. Melissa Huff's mother found the legs in her unlocked car, which she had parked at Arcadia High School. "Nobody was seen in or around the car," Arcadia police Lt. Ken Harper said. "There were no witnesses. We lifted some fingerprints and will see if there is any match." Huff's right leg was amputated below the knee after she was struck by a car two years ago....

A one-legged inmate set to be executed Thursday has requested an artificial leg so he can walk to the death chamber, but Texas prison officials said Tuesday he would not get it. Rodolfo Hernandez, 52, asked for the leg so he could "walk like a man" to his death by lethal injection in a state prison in Huntsville, Texas. "I came in with two legs, I want to go out with two legs," said Hernandez, who was condemned to die for killing an illegal immigrant from Mexico during a 1985 robbery in New Braunfels, Texas. Hernandez lost the leg to...