SHARPSVILLE, Pa. (MyValleyTributes) – Jaime Lynne Roberts, 66 of Sharpsville, passed away peacefully on Friday, April 3, 2026, following a two-year battle with cancer.

She is survived by her husband, Jim; her daughters, Kali Roberts (John Cross) and Kristy Roberts; her mother, Nancy Reynolds (Harold); her brother, Jay Scot McCabe; her sister-in-law, Kathleen Roberts and her very dear lifelong friend, Charlene Middleton.

Born on January 11, 1960, to Nancy (Zani) and Jay F. McCabe in New Eagle, Pennsylvania, Jaime was a graduate of Ringgold High School and earned her bachelor’s degree from Robert Morris University.

Nearly 40 years ago, she married her high school sweetheart and best friend, Harry “Jimmy” Roberts, and together they built a beautiful life and family. Jaime dedicated over 30 years to the Sharpsville Area School District, where she served as Business Manager until her retirement.

To know Jaime was to know patience, support, compassion and above all — love. Her conscientious spirit and infectious warmth could be felt in the simplest of gestures, always offered with effortless sincerity. For she was one “..who has always looked for the best in others and given them the best she had; whose life was an inspiration and whose memory is a benediction.”

A celebration of life will be announced at a later date.

Online condolences may be expressed at www.shermanfuneralhome.com

Arrangements have been entrusted to the Stephen J. Sherman Funeral Home & Crematory.

To send flowers to the family or plant a tree in memory of Jaime Lynne (McCabe) Roberts, please visit our floral store.

A television tribute will air Sunday, April 12 at the following approximate times: 8:58 a.m. on WKBN and 7:58 p.m. on FOX. Video will be posted here the day of airing.

• A report from Rhode Island’s Attorney General shows an increase in charges for possessing illegal high-capacity magazines.
• Prosecutors charged 384 cases involving magazines holding more than 10 rounds in 2025, up from 304 in 2024.
• Overall gun crime cases charged by prosecutors also rose from 415 in 2024 to 498 in 2025.
• The report highlights that illegal magazines were found at the scenes of the recent mass at Brown University and Pawtucket’s Lynch Arena.

Attorney General Peter F. Neronha’s annual “gun crimes” report shows that authorities have increased their enforcement of a new law that makes it illegal to carry a magazine holding more than 10 rounds.

Working with police, prosecutors charged 384 of the magazine cases in 2025 compared with 304 in 2024, says the report, which many regard as a kind of barometer on gun control in the state.

A 2022 law limits higher-capacity magazines. Illegal magazines were recovered at the scenes of two recent mass shootings, one at Brown University in December and the other at Dennis M. Lynch Arena in Pawtucket in February.

Neronha references both shootings prominently and with sadness in his opening to the report, which he compiles each year in accordance with state law.

“Whether gun crimes have trended up or down in 2025 (they have trended up a bit) is almost a moot point when a community as tight-knit as Rhode Island is still mourning in the aftermath of such tragedies,” Neronha writes. “And yet, our Office continues to work tirelessly to address gun violence.”

The report shows that prosecutors:

• Both charged and disposed of 787 cases in 2025 compared with 751 in 2024
• Charged 498 new cases statewide compared with 415 in 2024
• Charged 81 cases involving ghost guns in 2025 compared with 81 in 2024.

Ghost guns and bans on ‘large capacity feeding devices’

The report notes that on Oct. 31, 2025, a judge gave a life prison sentence to 28-year-old Jovon Depina for murdering Jovani Velez with a ghost gun.

A total of 418 of the 498 new cases were charged in Providence County.

On Oct. 23, 2025, 53-year-old Luis Sepulveda was found guilty of murder and of possessing a large-capacity feeding device.

Coalition Against Gun Violence says numbers in gun crimes report are telling

Ariana Wohl, board chair for the Rhode Island Coalition Against Gun Violence, said the volume of magazine cases shows the significance of the new law.

“That’s hundreds of potential acts of violence that were interrupted,” Wohl said.

“Prevention is sometimes hard to recognize,” Wohl said, “because the violence isn’t happening, but these kind of cases help us show that … having the laws on the books matters.”

She acknowledged that the public cannot assume that anyone possessing an illegal magazine will commit an act of violence.

“But it only takes one angry person with a high-capacity lethal weapon to create a real tragedy,” she said. “The point of prevention is not to allow for even one.”

Para Bellum Provisions is analyzing Neronha’s report

Dan Kesler, vice president of Para Bellum Provisions, said he expected an even larger number of magazine cases in 2025.

“So the numbers went up this year for the magazine capacity limit, and I would have expected it would have gone up more than it actually did, because everyone is getting more accustomed to charging those crimes now.”

Kesler’s organization supports the gun-rights community and also provides firearms safety classes.

He also said that actual convictions are a stronger reflection of enforcement activity than arrests and charges.

He said that Para Bellum is working on an analysis of the attorney general’s gun report that will be posted on its website, ParaBellumProvisions.org.

Louis deRosset, currently professor of philosophy at the University of Vermont, will be moving to the University of Notre Dame.

Professor deRosset works in metaphysics, philosophy of language, and philosophy of logic. He is the author of Fundamental Things: Theory and Applications of Grounding, among other writings, which you can learn more about here.

He will be taking up his new position as professor of philosophy at Notre Dame this fall.