So yeah, the former mayor’s defense team was really fighting an uphill battle here.
And Roberts either wasn’t offered a plea deal, or she didn’t accept the terms.
After being found guilty of two felony charges of carnal knowledge of a juvenile and indecent behavior with a juvenile, Roberts is facing 17 years behind bars.
She stepped down as mayor of DeRidder shortly after her arrest in 2024.
Sadly, this is just one of many high-profile stories about abuse of minors in recent weeks.
We will have further updates on this developing story as new information becomes available.
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But when Kynath William Terry Jr. allegedly marched into the hospital maternity ward and murdered his wife and then himself, he also created an orphan — and two grieving families.
This is a senseless horror.
Families are scrambling to explain what happened. And the hospital is looking into preventing this from ever happening again.
24-year-old Precious Johnson had just given birth when her husband, Kynath Terry Jr., allegedly shot her to death before taking his own life. (Image Credit: WVTM 13)
On Sunday, March 1, a horrific shooting took place at Homewood, Alabama’s Brookwood Hospital.
The victim was a patient at the hospital’s Women’s Center.
24-year-old Precious Johnson had just given birth. She was the victim, police say, of a murder.
She was the only victim. But she was not the only target of gunfire.
Authorities report that her husband, 19-year-old Kynath William Terry Jr., also died — having shot his wife multiple times before turning his weapon on himself.
Hospital maternity wards are not necessarily common sites for a murder-suicide.
However, it appears that the couple had been having marital difficulties.
Johnson reportedly did not want her husband or in-laws present for the delivery.
It reportedly came to a surprise to the aforementioned in-laws that Kynath was violent.
Similarly, it is unclear if this murder-suicide was the first incidence of violence or simply the final escalation. In most cases (about 75%) of spousal murder-suicides, it is the latter.
After his murder-suicide, Kynath Terr Jr.’s family appears to have shared photos that remind the world that their loved one was more than just a monster. (Image Credit: WVTM 13)
Naturally, in addition to grieving (and bewildered) family members and loved ones, a man shooting his wife multiple times and then killing himself has shaken the hospital.
Danne Howard is the president of the Alabama Hospital Association.
She spoke to multiple outlets, including WVTM and WBRC, following this senseless act of violence.
“There are a few places in our world where we should feel safe — at church, our hospitals, and our homes,” Howard told WBRC.
“Unfortunately, things happen and we do not feel safe anymore,” she acknowledged.
This news footage shows the outside of the hospital on the fateful night of the murder-suicide. (Image Credit: WVTM 13)
“We want to assure the public that our hospitals and our health care providers consider safety just as important as providing quality health care,” Howard emphasized.
WVTM conducted a walkthrough of the hospital’s maternity area the day after the shooting.
The reporter and camera operator were not stopped or challenged during their route, despite the presumably heightened sense of alert.
It is possible or even likely that a reporter with a camera operator were noticed but not flagged as suspicious amidst a breaking news story. (That, in and of itself, can be a security concern.)
We can also point out that a casual walkthrough will likely become more difficult in the future, as a direct result of this unthinkable crime.
Kynath William Terry Jr. had finished his National Guard certification prior to his murder-suicide. (Image Credit: WVTM 13)
Additionally, maternity ward murder-suicides are generally less likely to spawn copycats than other forms of shootings.
The terror of murdering your partner is different than the terror of slaughtering a room full of strangers, even if the two crimes famously overlap at times.
People who murder their partners are often motivated by a sudden change or loss of control, coupled with a fear of how their image or reputation will change.
Was Johnson planning to leave her husband? Had she already left?
Perhaps the investigation will turn up answers. For now, we’re heartbroken for her, her newborn, and for her entire family that she was unable to leave that marriage alive.
Judiciary presentation on March 2 on voter data sharing, photo courtesy of KTOO
NOTN- Alaska lawmakers are examining why the state turned over confidential voter information, including birth dates and parts of Social Security and driver’s license numbers to the U.S. Department of Justice.
In a joint hearing Monday of the House Judiciary and House State Affairs committees, Rep. Andrew Gray said the U.S. Justice Department’s 2025 request for complete voter registration lists from every state was unprecedented.
“This request by DOJ has never happened before, the Department of Justice has never asked for the confidential information of voters at any point in our history.” Gray said.
Alaska first sent only public voter information, but in December agreed to transmit a full electronic file with all data fields visible.
“On December 19, under the authority of Lieutenant Governor Nancy Dahlstrom, the state agreed to transmit an electronic voter file with all data fields visible, records were provided that included voter’s full names, dates of birth, residential addresses and either driver’s license numbers or the last four digits of social security numbers. Not every single state responded the way Alaska did.” Said Gray.
Attorney Libby Bakalar, who formerly represented Alaska’s Division of Elections, told lawmakers the disclosure likely conflicts with state law and Alaska’s constitutional right to privacy.
“Before I get into why this data transfer is problematic, if not unconstitutional, I just want to offer some context on the relationship between the state and federal government when it comes to running elections, the administration of elections in this country is the purview of the states. Those of you on the committee who support states’ rights would be pleased to know that states, including Alaska, maintain a lot of leeway and control over how their elections are run, issues like voter identification and voter list maintenance have historically fallen within the state’s remit. There is good reason for this.” She said, “For example, Alaska’s voter ID law allows for tribal IDs and confirmation of identity by a poll worker’s personal knowledge of the voter which aids voting in rural Alaska, where voters may not hold driver’s licenses or passports. We also have our own very detailed voter list maintenance statute that governs the way the division of elections adds and removes voters from the rolls and is supposed to determine who is eligible to vote in our state. The Alaska constitution, which affords greater protections of individual liberty than its federal counterpart, establishes a state based constitutional system of suffrage that includes provisions on the qualifications and disqualifications of voters. Perhaps most significantly, Alaska also has a specific constitutional provision that explicitly protects our citizens right to privacy.” She said.
Bakalar read from the federal agreement Alaska signed, under which the state pledged that within 45 days of receiving notice from DOJ about any “issues, insufficiencies, inadequacies, deficiencies, anomalies or concerns,” it would “clean its voter registration list by removing ineligible voters and resubmit the updated data.
“This process effectively turns Alaska’s independent voter list maintenance process into an audit and referendum by the federal government, in which the DOJ in Washington, has the final say over which Alaskans are allowed to vote here or not.” Bakalar said, “This has the potential to disenfranchise huge numbers of Alaskans at the whim of the DOJ, a whim which the DOJ may not necessarily be inclined to explain to the public’s satisfaction. And to what use will the DOJ put this data beyond just elections? We don’t know. We have seen aggressive immigration enforcement and unprecedented citizen surveillance under this administration. I think it’s fair to say that we cannot necessarily trust the federal government to use this data in good faith and for the purposes it claims.”
Election researcher Dr. Paul Manson of Portland State University warned that federal databases used to check voter eligibility are imperfect and often return non-matches that may still be U.S. citizens due to data inconsistencies.
He said that federal law bars large-scale voter removals in the 90 days before federal elections.
Lawmakers plan further questioning of state officials and experts about whether the Dunleavy administration’s cooperation was legally required and what protections now exist for Alaskans’ personal data.
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Rock legend Billy Idol is the subject of a new documentary, and during his current press tour, he’s made some shocking revelations about his personal life.
Sure, we all knew Billy was a partier.
But until this week, we didn’t know that he kicked his heroin addiction by substituting it with a good old-fashioned crack habit.
Billy Idol attends An Evening With Billy Idol & Steve Stevens at GRAMMY Museum L.A. Live on October 09, 2025 in Los Angeles, California. (Photo by Rebecca Sapp/Getty Images for The Recording Academy)
Idol made that revelation during a recent appearance on Bill Maher’s “Club Random” podcast.
“Once you’re trying to get off heroin, what do you go to? You go to something else. I started smoking crack to get off heroin,” Idol remarked.
“Did you really?” Maher asked, prompting Billy to reply, “It worked. It worked.”
This, of course, is not the first time that Idol has admitted to major substance abuse issues.
But it’s the first time that he spoke about basically using crack as a DIY Ozempic in order to curb his other bad habits.
Billy Idol performs at An Evening With Billy Idol & Steve Stevens at GRAMMY Museum L.A. Live on October 09, 2025 in Los Angeles, California. (Photo by Rebecca Sapp/Getty Images for The Recording Academy)
It’s not a strategy that we would recommend to anyone at home — but we’re glad it worked for Billy!
According to early reviews the doc — aptly titled Billy Idol Should Be Dead — contains many such revelations.
“I had it all, and I lit it with butane,” the rock legend remarked in a recent interview with the New York Times.
“There’s a point in my life where I was very drug addicted,” he added, before acknowledging that he’s lucky to be alive.
“I’m lucky that I’ve kept the brain I’ve got, because some people went brain-dead, and some people ended up in jail forever. Or dead,” he told the outlet.
Billy Idol attends the “Billy Idol Should Be Dead” Premiere during the 2025 Tribeca Festival at BMCC Theater on June 10, 2025 in New York City. (Photo by Theo Wargo/Getty Images for Tribeca Festival)
“Imagine if it was today. If I was doing what I was back then today, I would be dead because I would have run into fentanyl.”
In the interview with Maher, Idol revealed that on at least one occasion, he nearly died from snorting heroin:
“I kind of, eventually we did pass out and then when people, other people in the room came too, I was going blue,” Idol said.
Maher was puzzled by the fact that Idol turned blue, prompting the singer to provide a grimly hilarious explantion:
“If you’re dying, you’re gonna start turning blue,” he said.
Obviously, Billy made some bad decisions over the years — but at least he still has his sense of humor (and a lot of good stories).
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