A US man has been arrested on suspicion of shooting and injuring a golfer after an errant ball broke a window at his home.

A jury sentenced a man to death today for raping and killing a college student after sexually assaulting two others in a string of attacks that had the Nevada city of Reno on edge for most of 2008.

THE man accused of kidnapping Jaycee Lee Dugard 18 years ago in South Lake Tahoe served time in federal and Nevada prisons for the rape and torture of a woman he kidnapped from South Lake Tahoe.