Shanksville News

Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar speaks at the groundbreaking for a memorial to the passengers of United Flight 93 near Shanksville, Pa.

SHANKSVILLE, Pa. Associated PressEsther Heymann was overflowing with grief for her stepdaughter.

ASSOCIATED PRESS PHOTOGRAPHS A visitor to Shanksville, Pa., looks over markers for each of the 40 victims killed on Sept.

When United Flight 93 crashed on Sept. 11, 2001 in the rolling fields of Shanksville, Pa., the tragedy forever bound local residents with relatives of the flight's 40 passengers and crew members.

Congress has passed an appropriations bill that includes $725,000 in federal funding for the Flight 93 National Memorial in Shanksville.

The groundbreaking ceremony for the Flight 93 National Memorial will take place early next month.

After years of fundraising and acquiring land, plans are in place for groundbreaking for the Flight 93 National Memorial in Shanksville.

A controversial decision to end ties with Central City Volunteer Fire Company has raised the stakes in the race for a six-year Shade Township supervisor's seat in Tuesday's election.

Everyone likes to be a winner. Shanksville-Stonycreek School District elementary and middle school pupils have a reason to celebrate:They've been named tops in the state in the new Outdoors Challenge program.

You have a chance to be a hero to a local high school student while honoring a hometown hero.

Citing anonymous sources, The New York Daily News told us Tuesday morning that federal officials are thinking about bringing to New York for trial alleged 9/11 mastermind Khalid Sheik Mohammed.

There's no shortage of iconography to be found along Route 30 as it winds its way toward Shanksville in Somerset County.

Five students from Tunkhannock Area High School appearing in the documentary, "Shanksville, PA: A Place of Inspiration," made a return visit to the temporary memorial to the Heroes of Flight 93.

SOMERSET COUNTY, Pa. -- There was a heated meeting in Shade Township Thursday night in the wake of a fire where the local volunteer fire department didn't show.

Even as creation of a permanent Flight 93 National Memorial hits full stride, earlier fears of unbridled - and unsightly - development seem to have fallen by the wayside.

This weekend's third annual Troop Support Poker Run to benefit Charlie Company 1-110th Infantry Regiment of Connellsville and Friedens was postponed until Saturday due to inclement weather.

Trace Adkins was at a loss for words. The country music star had a hard time describing what it was like standing in a huge, open field in Shanksville, Pa., this past Sept.

In this undated 2008 photo, Bill Sparkman is seen with 7th grade student, Jessie Roberts during a lesson about sound waves.

In his column "Our forgotten dead" , Ralph Peters claims that we as Americans have forgotten about the events of Sept.

It rained Friday morning as if the skies were also crying in remembrance of the 2,752 who were lost eight years ago in the terrorists attacks on America on September 11, 2001.