m Katelyn McClure, who s serving a one-year federal term for helping raise more than $400,000 in an online donation hoax, was sentenced to three years in prison on state theft charges and barred from ever working again as a New Jersey public employee.
2. North Dakota could pass an affordable insulin bill: It s literally life or death
A North Dakota Senate bill would cap the amount people have to pay upfront for insulin medication at $25. Hillsboro, N.D., resident Angela Kritzberger has paid up to $1,200 for a 30-day insulin prescription for her daughter Nina. David Samson / The Forum
Twelve-year-old Nina Kristzberger is an active sixth grader who swims and plays softball, basketball and volleyball. She wants to be known simply as good-natured Nina, rather than a girl living with a lifelong disease Type 1 diabetes.
Nina was diagnosed at 7 years old with Type 1 diabetes, an autoimmune disease where her pancreas does not create insulin a hormone the body uses to allow blood sugar to be made into energy. Without insulin, people can experience high blood sugar and a plethora of symptoms that often come with diabetes, including nausea, vomiting, weight loss, stomach pains and others.