BOSTON (AP) – A Boston parking valet armed with an umbrella is being credited for helping a woman fight off a knife-wielding purse snatcher.

Police said 61-year-old Barbara Pero of Auburn was attacked Monday night outside a Boston condominium after her car was brought up by a valet parking service. A man forced his way into the car and threatened to kill her.

When Pero jumped out and screamed, 23-year-old valet Felix Vega grabbed a blue wood-handled umbrella from his manager's office and began beating the suspect.

Forty-eight-year-old suspect Richard Morse was able to flee but was arrested nearby with Pero's purse. He was ordered held on $150,000 cash bail after the judge was told he had previous convictions for mayhem and armed robbery. It was unclear if Morse had hired an attorney.

Man says image of Jesus appears on truck window

JOHNSON CITY, Tennessee – Jim Stevens said he's not particularly religious and is clueless about why an image resembling Jesus Christ keeps appearing on his pickup.

Stevens, of Jonesborough, said nearly every morning, an image that looks to him like the face of Jesus Christ has appeared in the condensation on the driver's side window of his Isuzu truck. A Johnson City Press photo of the truck showed a facial image.

Stevens said when he first saw the image, he figured it would evaporate and not return. But it kept reappearing for two weeks now.

Stevens said folks at the grocery store he goes to were amazed to see the image.

He said he isn't going to wash the truck for a while.

Woman, daughter hold signs admitting theft

BEDFORD, Pennsylvania (AP) – In exchange for spending no time in jail, a woman and her adult daughter have agreed to stand outside a Pennsylvania courthouse holding signs admitting that they stole a gift card from a nine-year-old girl on her birthday.

Fifty-six-year-old Evelyn Border and her daughter, 35-year-old Tina Griekspoor stood outside the court for 4 1/2 hours Tuesday. They held signs that read: "I stole from a nine-year-old girl on her birthday! Don't steal or this could happen to you!"

Because the women agreed to hold the signs, Bedford County District Attorney Bill Higgins said that he will ask for probation instead of jail time when they plead guilty to the theft.

Higgins said that they swiped a gift card that the girl set on a shelf while a Wal-Mart employee helped her.

Town limits cat ownership

DUDLEY, Massachusetts (AP) – A Massachusetts town has made it illegal to own more than three cats without getting a special license.

Voters at a town meeting in Dudley added language to a town bylaw on Monday night that makes it illegal to own more than three cats without a $50 residential kennel license.

The article was in response to a neighborhood feud over the 15 cats owned by Mary Ellen Richards.

The Telegram & Gazette of Worcester reports that one neighbor claimed the cats have ruined his yard.

Following the approval of the new rule, Richards put her home up for sale and said she is planning to move to a "more cat-friendly community."

Man gets 3 years in prison

CONWAY, South Carolina – A man caught on video having sex with a horse was sentenced Wednesday to three years in prison after pleading guilty for the second time in two years to abusing the creature.

Rodell Vereen was also ordered never to go near the stable where the horse's owner caught him and held him for authorities at shotgun point over the summer. He apologized to the woman and to himself after admitting to buggery at the Horry County courthouse.

"I'm sorry about what I've done. I didn't mean to do it. It's my fault. I'm sorry for what I've done to myself," Vereen said during Wednesday's court hearing.