NERVOUS parents yesterday faced a terrifying choice about whether to take their children to school after the Washington sniper warned that youngsters were “not safe anywhere, at any time”.

The Washington sniper left a new note for police demanding $10m at the scene of his 10th murder, it was revealed today.

Nervous parents today faced a terrifying choice about whether to take their children to school after the Washington sniper warned that youngsters were “not safe anywhere, at any time“.

POLICE pleaded with a man believed to be the Washington-area sniper to call them back last night.

A man who claimed to have seen the Washington serial sniper before his latest shooting was today charged with giving false information to police.

BALLISTIC evidence conclusively links the death of a woman shot in the head in a suburban parking lot with eight other killings by the Washington-area sniper, authorities said yesterday.

US police say the death of a woman outside a shop in suburban Washington DC has "tremendous similarities" to eight other fatal attacks.

HIGH-OCTANE fear stalked the Washington area in the US yesterday after a man was shot dead at a Fredericksburg petrol station just 30 miles from where a sniper claimed his seventh victim on Wednesday night.

A man was shot at a petrol station today, and police searching for a sniper closed down a nearby motorway after reports a white van had been seen in the area.