METRO DIGEST || Too much insulin found in girl; mom charged

Too much insulin

CLEVELAND

Deva Young, 22, of Vermont Street Northwest in Warren, was indicted Wednesday in Cuyahoga County Common Pleas Court on felonious assault and child endangering, accused of purposely giving her child too much insulin.

According to Cleveland.com, social workers at University Hospitals alerted Cleveland police March 12 that the girl had between 12 and 77 times the amount of insulin that should have been in her system.

Doctors concluded the “extremely high” amount would have meant someone intentionally gave her that much insulin, police said.

A Trumbull County police report said Young was arrested March 7 while on the second floor of county family court on the Cleveland charges.

Program gets funds

KENT

A Kent State University summer program that teaches foreign languages to high-school students has received federal funding for the 10th-consecutive year.

Profs. Brian Baer and Theresa Minick of KSU’s Department of Modern and Classical Language Studies received two grants totaling $180,000 to host the 2017 Regents STARTALK Foreign Language Academy at KSU.

The STARTALK grants, funded by the National Security Agency and the National Foreign Language Center, provide $90,000 each for two academies that immerse juniors and seniors from regional high schools in four-week intensive residential programs, learning either Russian or Mandarin Chinese.

The program is free for participating students, who can earn both high-school and college credit upon completion. Applications are being accepted for the 2017 academy. For information, visit www.kent.edu/mcls/fla.

Award for field trip

YOUNGSTOWN

The Minnie B. Thompson Foundation has chosen Discovery Transitions to Careers at Volney, 2400 S. Schenley Ave., to receive the foundation’s Just Dream Award of $1,000 to fund an educational field trip for 105 students to the Carnegie Science Center in Pittsburgh. A school social worker said the trip will be the first time several students will have the opportunity to visit another city. The foundation is named after the late Minnie B. Thompson, who never had the chance to receive education beyond third grade. Foundation officials said Thompson worked tirelessly to ensure her children would receive a quality education.