A former priest whose abuse of children in the 1970s and 1980s was featured in the Murphy Report will walk free this weekend despite receiving an 18-month jail term.

A former priest who admitted sexually abusing two 13-year-old boys in the 1970s is likely to walk free from prison despite being jailed for 18 months.

The gunman who killed seven people at a California religious university lined up his victims and shot them one by one, Oakland police chief said.

An Oakland, California man who was charged with stalking action man-turned-politician Arnold Schwarzenegger has been put on probation for three years.

Police in Alameda, California, are searching for the owner of a .38-calibre handgun a toddler used to fatally shoot a 22-year-old man.