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SAN ANTONIO — A 27-year-old woman has been arrested on charges of distributing harmful material to a minor after a 14-year-old's parents found a topless photo of her on his cell phone. Victoria Ann Chacon, a former middle school teacher, allegedly met the boy at their church, where she was a Sunday school teacher. Authorities at Somerset Independent School District said they found no evidence of any inappropriate relationships with students; the 14-year-old attended school elsewhere.

9/11 steel poured for USS SomersetBy KIRK SWAUGER Published: August 06, 2008 11:35 pm SOMERSET — The old draglines that towered above the reclaimed strip mine where Flight 93 crashed near Shanks-ville almost seven years ago are gone. But their symbolic significance to the day average Americans fought back against terror will not be lost. Twenty-two tons of steel from one of the large cranes was melted and poured Wednesday for the stemhold of the USS Somerset, a Navy vessel being constructed in honor of Flight 93’s passengers and crew. “We’re going to be cutting the water for that ship...

Archaeologists working on the Quantock Hills in Somerset have uncovered evidence of a substantial Roman villa with a mosaic floor in the main room. The findings are part of a six-year study carried out on six separate sites around the area. The dig team said the villa at Yarford is one of the most westerly villas with mosaic floors found in Roman Britain. It was subjected to three seasons of excavation but has since been buried again to protect it for the future. "If there is one villa, then the chances are that others will be found in due course."...

WESTWOOD ONE LAUNCHES THE MONICA CROWLEY SHOW --New Program to Air Saturdays, Noon - 3 p.m. ET-- Beginning Saturday, April 1, 2006 New York, NY Monday, Mar 20, 2006 - Westwood One (NYSE: WON) is proud to announce the national launch of The Monica Crowley Show, the three-hour talk program hosted by author and news personality Monica Crowley. The show begins Saturday, April 1, 2006, and will air from noon to 3 p.m. ET. The Monica Crowley Show will debut on major market stations across the country including: WABC-AM New York, WTKK-FM Boston and WTNT-AM Washington DC. The show will...

Ice Age engravings found in Somerset Press Association Thursday August 18, 2005 The Guardian (UK) A series of rare engravings, believed to date from the Mesolithic period, 10,000 years ago, have been discovered in a cave in Somerset. The three abstract squares, thought to have been made with stone tools, were found in Long Hole cave in Cheddar by the University of Bristol Speleological Society. The find follows the discover of ancient inscribed crosses at nearby Aveline's Hole cave in February this year. Experts have not been able to determine the meaning of the engravings yet, but say they are...

SOMERSET – A benefit auction will be held today, the third anniversary of the Quecreek mine accident in which nine miners became trapped and emerged some 77 hours later after a dramatic rescue that captured the world's attention. The auction will raise money to relocate the 126-year old Sipesville fire hall, which served as a refuge for the miners' families, to the site of the rescue. A $2.3 million, five-acre memorial is planned at the site, Bill and Lori Arnold's Dormel Farms. The Quecreek Mine Rescue Memorial is being billed by organizers as the largest permanent tribute to America's rescue...

Ancient engravings found in Somerset cave [07 February 2005] Two members of the University of Bristol Spelaeological Society have discovered an engraving in a cave in the Mendip Hills, Somerset, which may be at least 10,000 years old. Graham Mullan and Linda Wilson, who have spent much of the last ten years studying Palaeolithic cave art, recently began a systematic search of caves in southern Britain in the belief that such works in this country would not simply be confined to those found at Creswell Crags, Nottinghamshire. The first results of this study are a series of inscribed crosses found...

The hijackers of United Airlines Flight 93 tried repeatedly to fend off passengers storming the cockpit in the final minutes before one of the hijackers, Ziad Jarrah, shouted “Allah is the greatest” and nosed the plane into a field in Somerset County, according to the final report of the September 11 commission. The report includes a transcript of conversation captured by the cockpit voice recorder on the hijacked jetliner that shows the uprising started at 9:57 a.m. Sept. 11 after passengers onboard learned through cell phone conversations with family members that three other hijacked planes had been flown into buildings...

LONDON - Two dozen people suffered burns to their faces, hands and arms in a suspected acid attack at a pub in Bristol, southwestern England, police said Monday. Officers arrested a 25-year-old woman, who was injured in the early Sunday morning incident, in connection with the incident, Avon and Somerset Police said. A police spokesman said it appeared that a "corrosive substance" was thrown on 24 people. The victims received treatment at two hospitals, and most were later released. Police gave no further details.

White convicted in sheriff's slaying Death sentence to be sought for drug dealer By Bill Estep SOUTH-CENTRAL KENTUCKY BUREAU SOMERSET - A drug dealer looking to install an ally as the county's top cop helped plan the stunning assassination of Pulaski County Sheriff Sam Catron, a jury ruled yesterday. Today, the prosecutor will seek a death sentence for Kenneth White. After four days of testimony, the jury of eight women and four men deliberated less than an hour yesterday before convicting White, 56, of complicity to murder Catron. Lewis Catron, brother of the slain sheriff, pumped an emphatic thumbs-up. During...

<p>SOMERSET - Whether we needed boundless love and kindness in the face of the unthinkable tragedy of Flight 93 or the rock-solid faith that seems to actually have caused a miracle to happen at Quecreek Mine, Americans have found both in the gentle hills of this usually quiet community.</p>

A suspicious cooler left near the Somerset County crash site of Flight 93 Sunday night has sent state police and federal investigators into a spin.What made the cooler questionable, police said, were the several containers inside labeled "Three Mile Island," as well as a radiation detection card that had apparently been stolen from the nuclear power plant's visitors' center.Whether it is a bad practical joke or something sinister, officials don't know yet.But with the president's visit just days away, police are not taking any chances, and certainly are not taking the incident lightly.As of late this morning, state police, along...

SOMERSET, Pa. (AP) — The nine coal miners who were rescued from a cramped, flooded shaft Sunday decided early in their 77-hour ordeal that they would ``live or die as a group,'' tying themselves together so all their bodies would be found if they drowned. They also scrawled last messages to loved ones as they huddled together to keep warm 240 feet below the Earth's surface. ``I didn't think I was going to see my wife and kids again,'' a teary-eyed Blaine Mayhugh told reporters, hours after being pulled out of the Quecreek Mine in western Pennsylvania. He, his father-in-law...