Elections officials and employees at the Somerset County Office building were evacuated due to a bomb threat Wednesday morning, but the scene has since been cleared..Somerset Borough police said a bomb threat was directed toward the county office building and Office of the Voter Registration and Elections at 300 N Center Ave.

Somerset County commissioners ordered an emergency evacuation of the Somerset County Office Building on Wednesday in response to a bomb threat received by local police.

About an hour before polls were to close, officials there said they had received bomb threats against five polling places. Officials in the overwhelmingly Democratic suburb said v