They ain’t heavy, they’re just twins.

Sean William Maynard and Abigail Rose Maynard weighed a total 23 pounds and 1 ounce when they were born last week at a North Carolina hospital.

Officials at the Sara Lee Center for Women’s Health in Winston-Salem believe the twins are among the heaviest in American history – just shy of the 27-pound, 12-ounce babies born in Arkansas in 1927.

And in more good twin news . . .

A Michigan woman gave birth to her own twin grandkids after serving as a surrogate mother for her daughter.

Crystal Sirignano, 52, delivered Domenic and his sister, Mia.

Sirignano offered to be a surrogate after her daughter, Kendra, had several failed infertility treatments and surgeries.

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Denver cops were called to a filling station to break up an argument between clerks and a penny-pinching driver.

The clerks refused to take $10 in pennies from the driver of a TV satellite truck, sparking a heated argument.

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The owner of a tiny island off Scotland declared independence from the United Kingdom.

Stuart Hill, who owns the 2.5-acre island of Forvik in the Shetland Islands in the North Sea, said that he no longer recognized the UK government or the European Union.

Hill lives in a tent as Forvik’s only resident. He plans to create Forvik’s own currency, the “gulde,” print his own stamps and raise his own flag.

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She’s the breast cop in China.

Officer Jiang Xiaojuan, 30, left her own baby with her parents and went to earthquake-ravaged areas, where she breast-fed nine babies, orphaned by last month’s disaster.

Jiang was promoted for her efforts and awarded the title of “hero and model police officer.”