This cat was a real news hound.

A stray kitty was rescued from a TV news truck’s satellite dish on Long Island. WCBS-TV reporter Jennifer McLogan says drivers on the Northern State Parkway were honking their horns and waving as her truck headed to a press conference yesterday. One driver finally called out that a cat was on the roof.

Cops freed the black-and-white cat by dismantling a panel of the satellite dish. The media-shy feline fled without comment.

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The long arm of the law didn’t leave this guy a leg to stand on.

When police busted a Des Moines, Iowa, man for stealing an artificial leg, they confiscated the prosthetic limb and left him hobbling.

Rogoberto Zarazua-Rubio, who was fitted for the leg at a medical-supply store, walked out to take it for a test spin, and allegedly never returned to pay for it.

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This is truly adding insult to injury.

The University of California, San Diego accidentally sent an e-mail to 29,000 applicants who had been rejected, inviting them to a day of orientation for new students.

It was supposed to go only to the 18,000 students who got in.

Officials sent out a second e-mail, apologizing.

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Let’s hope that Mountain Dew is as holy as Mount Sinai. Priests in Norway, faced with frozen taps cutting off their holy water, were forced to use lemon soda to baptize babies.

Priest Paal Dale said that he let the fizzy drink go flat before blessing it and that “only the lemon smell made this unusual.”

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The Cold War is back — and it’s degenerated into a pissing match.

Russian cosmonauts and American astronauts have been battling it out over toilet privileges aboard the International Space Station ever since the Americans told their Russian counterparts to stick to the bathrooms on their side of the craft.