| No Images? Click here   Comedian Bill Cosby was found guilty on Thursday on three felony counts of aggravated indecent assault by a Montgomery County, Pennsylvania, jury. Cosby, 80, was retried on three felony counts of aggravated indecent assault for drugging and sexually assaulting Andrea Constand in 2004. Constand, 44, was a former women’s basketball coach at Temple University where Cosby was a trustee and major donor during the time he assaulted her. According to reports, people in the courtroom gasped as the guilty verdict was handed down. Several women fled the courtroom in tears of joy, hugging one another. Constand was seen hugging friends and family and smiling as she walked out of the courtroom. Cosby exited the courtroom swiftly, holding onto the arm of his spokesman, Andrew Wyatt. “This is an extraordinary case to have jury service,” Judge Steven O’Neill told the jurors after sentencing. “You have sacrificed much, but you have sacrificed in the service of justice.”  In case you missed it
 What's trending We’ll just say it: This woman MacGyvered her baby’s birth.Tia Freeman, a member of the U.S. Air Force who lives in Nashville, Tennessee, had Twitter users on the edge of their seats Tuesday when she decided to share her incredible delivery story.In early March, the pregnant 22-year-old chose to take a trip to Germany despite being close to the end of her term. Freeman only learned that she was pregnant in January when she was already in her third trimester, and she had booked her vacation flight before finding out.“I was in shock,” Freeman told HuffPost. “I never saw myself as a mom before. I was more career-oriented. That’s probably why I was in denial after finding out.” Serena Williams is used to feeling overwhelmed. The tennis star is constantly training and competing on the court. She’s also been working on a fashion line, recently debuted an HBO documentary series and serves on the board of advisers for Oath, HuffPost’s parent company.But motherhood far outweighs her work schedule when it comes to stress ― something she said she never anticipated until her daughter, Alexis Olympia, was born in September last year.“Oh, the anxiety is unreal! She’s like the bubble boy, I never want her to leave the house. ... It’s incredible, the anxiety I feel,” Williams told HuffPost. “There are times I’ve walked in on her and stuck my finger under her nose to make sure she’s breathing. I still do it. I wanted to do it yesterday. It’s like, ‘Serena, she’s OK. Stop.’”
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