Milwaukee: Final suspect arrested in fatal mob beating

Police arrested the 15th and final suspect in connection with the brutal beating of a Milwaukee man by a mob made up mostly of children.

The 14-year-old boy was arrested early Friday.

Authorities say the mob beat Charlie Young Jr. with broomsticks, shovels, a milk crate and other items on Sept. 29. Young died two days later.

Fourteen people have been charged in the attack, eleven of them juveniles. Nine of those minors have been charged as adults with first-degree reckless homicide.

Cleveland: Transfusions checked in three West Nile cases

Authorities were testing donated blood to determine whether three people in Ohio, including one who died this week, contracted West Nile virus through blood transfusions.

West Nile virus is typically transmitted by infected mosquitoes, but federal health officials learned last month that it can also apparently spread through blood transfusions and organ transplants, although they consider the risk low.

Transfusion recipient Dorothy Corwin, 74, died Monday at the Cleveland Clinic, The Plain Dealer reported Friday.

California: Second condor born in wild dies

A second California condor that was among the first condor chicks hatched in the wild in nearly two decades has died, officials said.

The 5-month-old bird was discovered Tuesday by a biologist who had been watching the chick in a cave in the Sespe Condor Refuge, located deep in the Los Padres National Forest, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service said.

Two weeks ago, another baby condor born at the same time was also found dead on a ledge in the forest. One chick remains alive.

The hatching of the chicks was considered a milestone in the condor breeding program, which boosted the endangered bird’s numbers from 15 to almost 200 in the past two decades.

Pennsylvania: Phony heiress guilty of bilking developer

A woman accused of posing as a wealthy heiress to con friends and businesses out of tens of thousands of dollars was convicted of theft by deception and writing a bad check.

Tereza Solomon Demoody was found guilty Thursday in Norristown of scamming $30,000 from real estate executive Harvey Sklaroff and then repaying him with a check that bounced.

Sklaroff told investigators he gave Demoody an additional $50,000 last year, but the jury couldn’t decide on that amount.

Demoody, 48, was actually a middle-class widow, but police have said she was so convincing in her act as an heiress that she managed to run up a $32,000 bill for limousine service and settle into a $3,500-a-night suite at the Ritz-Carlton Hotel in Philadelphia.

She allegedly told people she was a beneficiary of a $47 million family fortune amassed by Haym Solomon, a Polish-American Jew who helped bankroll the American Revolution.

Michigan: Drug tests OK’d for welfare recipients

A federal appeals court Friday cleared the way for Michigan to test welfare recipients for drug use.

U.S. District Court Judge Victoria Roberts halted a pilot drug-testing program in 1999 after a group of welfare recipients and the American Civil Liberties Union of Michigan argued that the testing was unconstitutional.

A three-judge panel of the 6th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals reversed Roberts’ decision Friday, saying the testing program is based on a legitimate need to ensure that public money is not used for illegal purposes.