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TIONESTA — State police in Western Pennsylvania say an SUV crash has claimed the lives of a man and a youth.

Police in Forest County say the vehicle was heading south on Route 36 when it failed to negotiate a curve and went off the road outside Tionesta just before 10 p.m. Saturday.

Authorities say the vehicle traveled over an embankment and then rolled over in the Hunter Run creek bed. Both occupants were thrown from the SUV and were pronounced dead at the scene by Coroner Norman Wimer.

The driver has been identified as 20-year-old Noah Haibach of Tionesta. The name of his passenger, a 13-year-old youth from Tionesta, has not been released.

BEDFORD — Authorities in Western Pennsylvania say an evangelist has been arrested and charged with assaulting an 11-year-old girl several years ago.State police in Bedford said Friday that The Rev. Walter Donald Bradshaw, 61, was arrested Tuesday at his home in Lexington, N.C., and was being held at the Davidson County jail in lieu of $150,000 bail pending extradition to Pennsylvania. Police said the 51-year-old mother of the victim was taken into custody at the home Thursday and also was being held at the jail.Police said Bradshaw was a traveling evangelist and met the family at a revival four years ago. They said the alleged assault happened between 2007 and 2008 at the Janey Lynn Motel in Bedford.

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