“You’re not innocent, but you’re not guilty of what the state has charged you with,” Judge Mark Stoner said earlier this week following a three-day bench trial of Indianapolis mother Dacia Lacey who had confessed that she smothered her 2-month-old daughter, Alona, with couch pillows at her Indiana state home in August 2022.

Lacey was reportedly on methamphetamine at the time and wanted to stop the crying 2-month-old so she could get rest. Months following the incident, she was charged with neglect of a dependent, resulting in death.

Lacey’s other daughter testified during the first day of the trial. “Mom was mad, hit the baby with a pillow and put the pillow on her face,” the 5-year-old said.

Indianapolis Police Detective Jamie Davis also testified, saying that Lacey’s story was initially inconsistent before she finally confessed. Speaking to officials, Lacey blamed her children, saying that they may have accidentally smothered the baby while she was making food.

“Basically, she said that she was high, and she was tired, and Alona had been crying," Davis reportedly told the court. "Ultimately, she ended up picking up Alona and facing her towards the crease in the couch. So, if you have the back of the couch and then the seating area, she placed her face toward the crease.”

Although he decided to grant Lacey a not guilty verdict, Stoner reportedly still believed that she should’ve faced a different charge -- like involuntary manslaughter. He mentioned that there was a lack of physical evidence of neglect and no injuries that pointed to long-term abuse. The baby’s cause of death was considered “undetermined.”

“This is a case that happens when you’re a bad parent," Stoner said. "There are some things you can never do. You can never have sole possession of your children and go out and use drugs.”

Lacey, reportedly in tears, sighed in relief when she heard the judge's not-guilty verdict.

“I do hope that you will take the opportunity to get the counseling that you need, to get the counseling for the children that you need,” Stoner added. “Learn from this behavior and hopefully the rest of the community learns from this behavior.”

Jeremy Williams 40, allegedly paid Kristen Siple, $2500, to rape her 5-year-old, Kamarie Holland, for one hour.

Jurors reportedly started crying during the trial as they watched video of Williams raping the 5-year-old, and police camera footage of officers finding her body.

"...Justice was served, but it still don't take away that Kamarie's gone," the 5-year-old's grieving father Corey Holland said, following the court decision. "But I'm glad he got the death penalty."

Williams who has a gruesome criminal history, was suspected of murdering a 1-year-old boy in Alabama.  He was also previously acquitted of lowering a 3-year-old boy into a bowl of boiling water.

Critics slammed the George Soros-funded lax Justice system in Democrat-run jurisdictions which let repeat offenders like Williams back into the general population. Many are calling on the court to also sentence Siple to death for her heinous "unforgivable crime," as one social media user put it, against her daughter and family.

WATCH remarks by Kamarie Holland's father.

A surveillance video shows Rickesha Denise Overton follow Alisia DeCoteau downstairs with a gun. Both women who're apparently friends at one point, were arguing earlier that fateful evening, according to witnesses.

The suspect briefly went back inside before coming out to shoot DeCoteau. Overton's gun can be seen in the footage, jamming as she tries to fire more shots.

Police say she also pointed the pistol at horrified neighbors before officers arrived.

“She came into my apartment," Overton initially told officers. "It was self-defense. I had to shoot her.”  The suspect later added, “She’s not even dead. I don’t care if you give me life[ sentence]. I just want to go to Alisia’s funeral.”

Apparently this was not the first time Overton allegedly attacked DeCoteau who is mother to a young daughter, according to the authorities. Cops were reportedly called to the same Ellis Court Apartments building on January 1, at about 2:35 p.m. and the suspect was arrested for assaulting DeCoteau.

“I knew I lost somebody I loved so much,” the victim’s older sister, Jessica Ceja reportedly said. “We’re hurt. She was our youngest sibling. She was only 20 years old. That was my baby sister. I didn’t expect her to ever die this way.”

Overton was charged with Murder in the First Degree and Assault in the Second Degree.  She's in court Thursday for a competency hearing.

WATCH footage of the moment Rickesha Denise Overton shot and killed Alisia DeCoteau

45-year-old Erin Ward, a Burke High School substitute teacher, was caught undressed in the backseat of a car, with a 17-year-old boy in a Nebraska neighborhood.

Douglas County Sheriff’s deputies responded to a call regarding a suspicious vehicle parked on a dead-end road where they found undressed Ward and the boy. The teen jumped in the driver’s seat and attempted to flee, before crashing the car which was later determined to belonged to Ward and her husband.

Deputies saw the 17-year-old running from the driver’s seat with no clothes on. He was found over an hour later in a nearby neighborhood wearing only underwear and a T-shirt.

Ward allegedly admitted to having sexual relations with the teen, according to authorities. She was arrested and charged with one count of felony sexual abuse by a school employee; and will not be returning to the school.

Pascal Fouquet captured Falcon Heavy photobombing the moon, when SpaceX launched the United States Space Force X-37B spaceplane on the USSF-52 mission.

Shooting with a Nikon D850, Fouquet said the trick was to expose the camera to capture the details of the moon, not the rocket. He set his shutter speed to just 1/1600 of a second, capturing the split second moment Falcon Heavy passed in front of the moon.

"Scouting for an ideal location proved challenging, given the limited spots available for capturing the shot," Fouquet reportedly said. "Ultimately, I settled on a somewhat unconventional choice—an open field behind a hospice center 13.8 miles away from the launch pad."

Fouquet, a photographer from Orlando, Florida, was chosen as the United States' National Award first place winner for the Sony World Photography Awards 2024. The awards program comes out of a partnership between Sony and the World Photography Organization, and receives hundreds of thousands of photo submissions from across the world.

Ex-convict Sheldon Johnson Jr. 48, was arrested for murder after a severed head of Collin Small 44, were found in a freezer and blue bin inside Small's sixth-floor apartment in the Bronx. The victim was pronounced dead at the scene by medics.

Surveillance footage shows Johnson visiting the apartment multiple times in different outfits; and can be seen showing up with the blue bin.

The victim's neighbors, reported that they could hear him pleading with Johnson before 2 shots rang out. "Please don’t. I have a family!" the victim yelled before he was killed, the neighbors said.

Johnson has been charged with murder, manslaughter, and criminal possession of a weapon.

The 48-year-old is a staffer for public law firm Queens Defenders, and apparently close to discredited far-left District Attorney Alvin Bragg.

Johnson had become an advocate for prison reforms after his release for attempted murder and robbery, spending over 20 years in prison. He previously appeared on Joe Rogan's podcast JRE, during which he spoke about his years in jail and about "changing his life around."
Apparently not changing enough.

As his dispute with OpenAI escalates, X owner Elon Musk is facing another lawsuit filed by several former Twitter(now X) executives on Monday alleging that he illegally tried to avoid paying them severance totaling roughly $128 million.

The executives claim the now X owner “uses his wealth and power to run roughshod over anyone who disagrees with him.” The lawsuit was brought by former Twitter CEO Parag Agrawal, former CFO Ned Segal, and former Twitter lawyers Vijaya Gadde and Sean Edgett.

Musk officially acquired then Twitter in October 2022 for $44 billion, and fired many of the woke executives who had forced him in a Delaware court to go through with the purchase.

The X owner said he fired the executives “for cause,” believing he wouldn’t need to pay huge severance packages.

The past management of then Twitter has been widely criticized for poorly running the social media company which was never profitable, and was more focused on censorship and far-left political activism.

The iPhone maker is reportedly cutting hundreds of employees from the project Titan team and all work on it has stopped. Executives announced in a 12-minute meeting Tuesday, that the company is shutting down its decade-old effort to build electric vehicles.

Chief operating officer Jeff Williams and the vice president in charge of project Titan, Kevin Lynch, reportedly announced the news to the team during the meeting. The decision has reportedly been in the works for a long time.

Project Titan reportedly had around 1,400 employees working on it. Some of them will be moving to Apple’s generative AI projects, while others will have 90 days to find reassignment to other roles inside the company, or be let go.

Apple first started working on “Project Titan” in 2014. But the Cupertino-based company pivoted repeatedly over the last decade, oscillating between an emphasis on making an all-electric Tesla competitor and a fully-autonomous vehicle more akin to what Waymo has created.

Tesla is the dominant player in the EV space. And even with Apple's extensive technology and supply chain expertise, they're unable to pull it off like the Elon Musk-owned company. Top executives and the board were reportedly frustrated and unhappy with Titan's progress and at some points pressured the team to try to bring something to market sooner than later.

The decision by Apple to kill project Titan comes at a time when major automakers are re-evaluating their investments in electric vehicles, and amid increased scrutiny and Tesla dominance.

Responding to the news Tuesday on X, Musk wrote 'saluting face' and 'smoking' emojis. "The natural state of a car company is dead," he added in another post.

While performing at his concert recently in the UK, Nigerian singer Omah Lay looked through the crowd and called up a girl to the stage.

The pair danced while he performed his hit song 'Bend You' amid cheers from concertgoers. Things suddenly turned raunchy as the curtains fell and their silhouettes can be seen passionately kissing, hugging and grinding.

Footage circulating on social media shows the woman's Ghanaian boyfriend looking on while shaking his head.

Another footage shows the dejected boyfriend walking home after the concert. Apparently the girlfriend thought she did nothing wrong, as her friends can be heard telling her otherwise.

The girl has since posted another video saying she bought the tickets to the concert, and had apologized to her boyfriend.

On his part, the boyfriend asked the public for advice in a video he posted on social media. "Please Advice me, I took my Girl to Omah Lay’s Concert and she went On stage completely disregarded my presence and started dancing Seductively with Omah Lay, I am here thinking if I should stick with her or just move on with my life I want you guys to let me know, what do you think I should do?”

Reactions to the videos were swift and harsh on social media. Many said he'd have dropped her the moment she went on that stage and never talk to her again.

Other critics point to the girl's action as another sign of the degenerate celebrity culture pervading the western world.

WATCH the video featuring Omah Lay, the woman and her boyfriend