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PITTSBURGH — Pittsburgh police said a man who raped an 11-year-old girl after forcing her into an abandoned house was found hiding under the floor boards of a nearby residence and arrested.

Clyde Haidle, 46, is charged with rape, involuntary deviate sexual intercourse, and related crimes for the attack about 4 p.m. Thursday.

Police said the girl was walking home from a school bus stop when Haidle grabbed her and forced her into the vacant home, where he assaulted her. The girl approached a woman for help after the attack and was treated at a hospital.

Witnesses told police Haidle had been in the area making suggestive comments and they found him hiding in another city home.

Haidle was jailed. Online records don't list an attorney for him.

HARRISBURG — The Pennsylvania State Police is backtracking on a blanket policy to withhold victims' names from news releases just one day after it was issued.Spokeswoman Cpl. Linette Quinn said the department rescinded its policy Friday after realizing it was too broad.Quinn said the policy directed troopers not to release the names or addresses of victims, and put only their ages and ethnicity on public news releases.She said the idea was to expand a long-standing practice of withholding names of sexual assault and rape victims to also include victims of sexual harassment.The policy is being rewritten to clearly define which crime victims it will cover. Quinn said the new policy should be in place by the end of May.

EBENSBURG — A judge ordered two Amish families out of their homes for failing to comply with municipal building and sewage requirements.Cambria County Judge Norman Krumenacker gave Joely and Mary Swartzentruber, along with John and Susan Miller, until Monday morning to leave or be evicted by sheriff's deputies.The defendants are members of a conservative Amish sect known for their severe restrictions on technology. They did not have a lawyer at a contempt hearing Friday.County sewage officials said the families have cited religious beliefs in failing to install permitted sewage systems.

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