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An Italian speedboat captain was handed a light punishment in the fatal crash that killed prominent “Harry Potter” publishing house executive Adrienne Vaughan off the Amalfi Coast of Italy. Skipper Elio Persico was sentenced to four years and nine months in jail after requesting a plea bargain with a Salerno judge on Friday, CBS News reported. The 32-year-old faced culpable manslaughter and negligent injury charges for allegedly operating the vessel, sailing 15 knots, while drunk and high on cocaine. Bloomsbury Publishing USA President Adrienne Vaughan was killed in a boat crash off Italy’s Amalfi Coast on Aug. 3, 2025. AP…

A former University of Virginia student was sentenced on Friday to life in prison for fatally shooting three football players and wounding two other students on the campus in 2022. Judge Cheryl Higgins gave Christopher Darnell Jones, Jr., who had been on the football team, the maximum possible sentence after listening to five days of testimony. Jones pleaded guilty last year. The penalty includes five life sentences, one each for the killings of Devin Chandler, Lavel Davis Jr. and D’Sean Perry, and the aggravated malicious wounding of Michael Hollins and Marlee Morgan, Cville Right Now reported. Christopher Darnell Jones, Jr. was handed five life…

Gambling content 21+. The New York Post may receive an affiliate commission if you sign up through our links. Read our editorial standards for more information. With injuries piling up and delays to some players who were expected to return by now, fantasy football managers are forced to the waiver wire to find some deeper cuts to help them through the remaining bye weeks — many while fighting for playoff position. If you were reading these same pages last week, you were alerted to the personnel changes in Arizona when Marvin Harrison Jr. underwent an appendectomy and was replaced in…

Phil Maton is a Cub. The veteran reliever agreed to a two-year contract with Chicago that includes a club option, per The Athletic. The financial terms of the deal are not clear. The 32-year-old Maton is coming off a strong 2025 campaign split between the Cardinals and Rangers, as he posted a career-best 2.79 ERA over 63 appearances with 81 strikeouts in 61 1/3 innings. He struck out 33 hitters in 23 innings with a 3.52 ERA and 0.957 WHIP for the Rangers after getting shipped to Texas before the MLB trade deadline in late July, but his overall body…

Traditionally, the first game back home after a West Coast trip is always tough.  The twist for the Islanders, as they prepare for a weekend back-to-back against the Blues on Saturday and the Kraken on Sunday, is that they already have been back in the Eastern time zone for the past few days. The trip took them as far as Las Vegas but slowly crawled back toward New York with stops in the Mountain and Central time zones before Thursday’s 5-0 win against the Red Wings in the Eastern time zone.  Emil Heineman of the New York Islanders bumps helmets…

BOSTON — Jordi Fernández says the rebuilding Nets can’t let all these losses turn them into losers, that tasting victory has them wanting more.  On Friday, the Nets got a huge one, an impressive 113-105 win over the Celtics before a raucous green-clad sellout crowd of 19,156 at TD Garden.  Michael Porter Jr. poured in 16 of his game-high 33 points in the fourth quarter. Center Nic Claxton added his first triple-double (18 points, 12 assists and 11 rebounds) and rookie Egor Dëmin chipped in 12 points, six boards and five assists.  Nic Claxton and Michael Porter Jr. of the…

There is something that I have noticed about people who love horror movies: a character can be chopped, drawn-and-quartered, decapitated, impaled, or tickled with a chainsaw, but when it comes to animals, especially a dog undergoing the same torture, some viewers say “nope.” Now that this year’s Good Boy is hitting Shudder today, some might […]

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If you’ve seen an influx of leaf emojis on your social media feed in recent weeks, don’t worry — you’re not being stalked by bonkers botanists. The foliage making its way into tweets and Instagram bios these days is actually a calling card for super-fans of Netflix’s latest hit, “Frankenstein.” Jacob Elordi and Mia Goth in “Frankenstein.” ©Netflix/Courtesy Everett Collection Jacob Elordi and Oscar Isaac in “Frankenstein.” ©Netflix/Courtesy Everett Collection So why leaf emojis? It’s a sweet reference to a moment between Jacob Elordi’s Creature character and Mia Goth’s Lady Elizabeth Harlander when he presents her with a thoughtful gift,…

From the right: Blame Biden for Rising Costs Democrats “blame President Trump” for America’s affordability problem “while ignoring their own responsibility for causing it in the first place,” fumes James Piereson at The New Criterion. “President Biden, with the support of his party in Congress, went on a spending spree when he took office,” causing inflation to hit more than 9% in mid-2022. “During Trump’s first term, food prices were generally stable,” but “Biden’s spending policies caused” them “to surge,” with gasoline skyrocketing to $4.84 per gallon in mid-2022. Electricity costs spiked more than 30% during Biden’s term. “There can…