Yesterday, we reported that Kim Kardashian got engaged to New Jersey Nets player Kris Humphries with a ginormous 20.5-carat ring. Today the Daily News asks how much that jumbo hunk of bling weighs, with a Manhattan jeweler guesstimating that it clocks in at a whopping four ounces. What exactly does four ounces look like? Here's a sample of what else Kimmy could be dragging around on her finger for the same workout: more ›

Pro tip: if your boyfriend has 30 prior arrests, you might not want to let him around your pets. Brooklyn native Garret Sloan, 26, has been arrested and charged with aggravated cruelty to animals after brutally killing his girlfriend's kitten. According to a criminal complaint, Sloan said, "The cat died. I took it and threw it away in the incinerator." more ›

Oh no— woman in Prospect Heights has been caught flippin' kitties! According to the Brooklyn Paper, a woman going by the name "Unique" appears to have sifted through Craigslist ads for free kittens, only to turn around and sell them to make a profit. Louise Holmes found this out the hard way, when she let the woman adopt her two gray kittens—asking that she return them to her if she ended up not wanting them. more ›

A man from Uniondale, Long Island is now behind bars for felony robbery charges, but this all comes after he also violently tortured his girlfriend's 5-month-old kitten. Shomari Ferguson allegedly beat the cat when his girlfriend was at work. Apparently the girlfriend's landlord called her to say that he heard loud thuds and screeching from the kitten, so the girlfriend asked her roommate to investigate. According to the Nassau County DA's office, the roommate found "the kitten in the closet, smelling strongly of bleach, and its face covered in blood, pus, and saliva. The kitten was unable to open its eyes." more ›

A little kitten hailing from the Bronx found itself in the city's sewer system recently. According to the Daily News, 21-year-old Edita Pjetrovic couldn't find her kitten named Motz, and says he likely slipped out the door during a barbecue she was having on Sunday. During her search, a friend at a local pizza shop told her a cat was heard meowing near Morris Park Avenue and White Plains Road—the noise was coming from under a sewer grate. The Department of Environmental Protection to the rescue! Workers helped locate and rescue the cat on Wednesday using video cameras, and Pjetrovic told the paper, "They really helped. They were really kind." Last summer a New Jersey kitten was rescued from the sewers—maybe they're trying to become the sewer gators. more ›

By now, many people have seen the adorable surprised kitten video at least a hundred times each (and will probably watch it another hundred times because IT'S SO DARN CUTE). Our friend, veterinarian Dr. Peter Soboroff of the New York Cat Hospital, believes that the kitten's surprise-while-being-tickled is a normal postural play response. He sent us this video of a kitten that had been under his care—watch Magellan the tabby play "surprise"! more ›

Yesterday, the 17-year-old who involved in the killing of her friend's kitten—the cat died in a 500-degree oven— agreed to a two-year jail sentence, as well as not being able to own a pet for three years after her release. more ›

When word got out that some kittens born at Goldman Sachs' Battery Park City headquarters were essentially abandoned by the firm—the bank allegedly reneged on earlier promises to have its employees adopt the kitties and pay for vet bills—the bank scrambled to set the story straight. A spokesperson said, "To be clear, we never abandoned the kittens. Every kitten has been adopted. The vet bills were requested several times and they were paid as soon as we received them," and said downtown newspaper The Downtown Express "reported the story inaccurately." So, Goldman Sachs—really rich but not kitten lovers-and-leavers. more ›

A judge overthrew a plea deal offered to suspected feline arsonist Cheyenne Cherry yesterday, potentially extending the prison sentence for the 17-year-old who is accused of killing a kitten by baking it in a 500-degree oven. According to the Post, "Judge Margaret Clancy, who had earlier approved the plea deal, said 'nobody realized' at the time that reducing a violent felony charge to a nonviolent charge was illegal." more ›

Aww: A passerby heard a kitten mewling from a storm drain in Oceanside, NY, so firefighters worked to rescue the tiny thing from the cold, freezing weather. According to the AP, "The firefighters tried to coax the kitten out of the grate but it was too scared to move. Then they scared it with a fire extinguisher and it jumped out." The kitten was taken Hilton Animal Hospital and "put in a warming cage"—it will be up for adoption when it's deemed healthy. more ›

A belated followup: The 14-year-old girl who was sentenced to 18 months in juvenile jail on animal cruelty and burglary charges for killing a kitten by baking it in a 500-degree oven. While 17-year-old Cheyenne Cherry's name has been attached to the crime, apparently it was the 14-year-old who put kitten Tiger Lily in the oven and turned on the gas, according to the Daily News. For her part, Cherry pleaded guilty to charges of aggravated animal cruelty and criminal trespass (the pair were ransacking a former friend's Bronx apartment); according to a tipster, her July 31 sentencing was adjourned because the judge wanted to read her probation record—she's been arrested previously for holding up someone with a BB gun to steal someone dog and robbing someone's iPod at gunpoint. Cherry's next court date is September 2. more ›

Yesterday, Cheyenne Cherry pleaded guilty to two charges— attempted burglary and animal cruelty—"in a six-count indictment" related to an incident where she wrecked a friend's apartment as well as baked the friend's kitten in a 500 degree oven. The Daily News explains that the 17-year-old "Cherry was granted a plea deal [from the Bronx DA's office] because her cohort was 'more culpable' for the crimes"—the co-hort, 14, admitted to putting kitten Tiger Lily in the oven in the first place while Cherry said, "I didn't let the cat out." The two teens then ran out of the apartment, so they wouldn't have to hear the cat's cries or attempts to get out. more ›

A little kitten survived not only being thrown from a truck but also being trapped in the wheel well of another car in Staten Island. The Post reports that the black-and-white 8-week-old tabby, named Lucky after her ordeal, was spotted by Family Court Judge Catherine DiDomenico. (Video of the super adorable cat after the jump.) DiDomenico was driving on Hylan Boulevard when a truck driver in front of her threw the kitten out the window. The stopped her car—which other drivers were not pleased about—to look for the kitten, "I looked down. I looked to the left. I looked to the right. I didn't see the kitten," but she spotted the kitten behind the left wheel. DiDomenico said, "As my wheel spun, she jumped into the wheel well and her claw became stuck in the suspension. Clearly she was very lucky. She is one brave kitty. This kitten defied an act of brutality." The NYPD Emergency Service Unit help extract Lucky, who was given a clean bill of health and is up for adoption at Staten Island Animal Care & Control in Tottenville. And the cops are still looking for the truck driver. more ›

On Thursday, the Staten Island Advance reported that a 7-month-old tabby cat had been in the tree for four days. Luckily, on day five of her arboreal getaway, Dottie the kitten was rescued, thanks to some patience and the efforts of some nice folks. more ›

A woman who used to volunteer at the BARC cat loft has a great tale of a kitten she met on the Queensboro Bridge one morning while running. His name is Jeff Bridges.Jeff Bridges is the kitten I found while I was running over the Queensboro Bridge Thursday morning. How the hell he got on the pedestrian walkway of the bridge–a long, long fall on the right, eight lanes of traffic on the left... more ›