After a disappointing loss, a surfer got a nice wave of good luck. Jake Hammit, 38, an Army vet and amputee, lost his prosthetic leg in a rough surge off Huntington Beach, Calif., last Saturday. After a futile search by volunteers, Hammit said it’s like

A group of Pennsylvania pranksters are the “It” girls.

Five teens admitted this week they were the ones who tied creepy red balloons to Lititz sewer grates — like the child-eating clown in Stephen King’s horror novel “It” that’s returning to the big screen.

“We tried to trick our friends but ended up scaring America,” Peyton Reiff, 17, said of the stunt that went viral.

Organizers of an Ohio County Fair are on the trail of a sweet-toothed masked bandit.

The thief, who took bites out of 11 Geauga County Fair best-of-show entries, including breads, muffins, scones, pies and a chocolate cake, is a pesky raccoon, officials said.

A man who chatted up a group he met in a California hotel hot tub is now in hot water of the criminal kind.

Andrew James Harris asked the woman and two men what brought them to the Courtyard by Marriott in Mission Valley, officials said.

When they joked they were homeless after their crack lab exploded, Harris offered to sell them cocaine and LSD, and the guests, actually narcotics cops, set up a buy-and-bust, officials said.

Someone didn’t topple this whole Arkansas monument to a Confederate war hero.

They just removed the 30-pound stone cannonball at the feet of James H. Berry, a Civil War officer and the only Arkansas governor from Bentonville.