An upstate New York man accepted his wife’s weighty challenge — and lost 198 pounds in less than a year.

Jay Wornick’s wife proposed that they both slim down as a New Year’s resolution, and the father of three, who weighed 366 pounds on Jan. 1, agreed.

Wornick, of Fulton, who now weighs 168 pounds, eats healthier and works out six days a week at the local Y.

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A 6-foot-long alligator didn’t have a prayer when it was seen prowling around outside a church near Jackson, Mich.

Cops got a noose around its head, wound duct tape around its jaws and said the roaming reptile will be sent to a sanctuary.

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A Welsh fisherman failed to land a place in the record books — because he ate his prize catch without weighing it first.

Kurt Price checked the record books after he dined on the sea bass he had caught.

The record for a shore-caught sea bass is 19 pounds 11 ounces — and anglers who saw a picture of Price’s huge fish estimate it topped 20 pounds.

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Chinese officials don’t want motorists doing dumb things behind the wheel, so they set up a dummy uniformed cop holding a camera off the side of a highway between Shanghai and Nanjing. The camera is real and records every car that goes by.

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Scientists in Austria suggest that Oetzi, a prehistoric iceman whose natural mummy was found frozen in the Alps 20 years ago, may not have been murdered after all.

He lived 5,300 years ago, and an intitial theory was that he was bumped off with an arrow, but new studies indicate Oetzi may have died accidentally in a fall while climbing.