A fugitive ex-Los Angeles police officer wanted for three killings is barricaded in a cabin in the Southern California mountains, authorities said today.

About 300 people were arrested during a chaotic day of Occupy protests in the US city of Oakland that saw demonstrators break into City Hall and burn an American flag, and police fire tear gas and use flash grenades to disperse the crowds.

AN elderly Vietnamese man who was declared dead and sent to a morgue overnight, was discovered alive and well the following morning when his daughter went to retrieve the body for the funeral.