On September 14, 2013 at approximately 3:10 PM the Sauk County Communications Center was notified of a child that had drowned at a residence of an Amish family on STH 154 in the Township of…
An Amish West Farmington man was sentenced 20 years to life in prison Monday for sexually assaulting seven girls between 11 and 13 years old. Daniel Miller, 47, of state Route 534, pleaded guilty as…
A three-year-old Amish boy died Wednesday afternoon after he was run over by the trailer of a horse-drawn wagon in Seneca County. Lester Schumucker and his brothers Daniel, 10, and Victor, 6, were riding on…
Many outsiders assume the Amish reject all new technology. But that’s not true. One Amish man in Lancaster County, Pa., checks his voicemail about four times a day. His shop is equipped with a propane-powered…
PARADISE — Police say four people were injured, one critically, and a horse was killed after a minivan collided with the animal in central Pennsylvania. The (Lancaster) Intelligencer Journal/Lancaster New Era says the minivan was…
(ORLEANS) – An Amish man was killed in a sawmill accident Monday afternoon. According to Orange County Sheriff’s Department Public Information Officer Bill Fullington, 23-year-old Jacob Stutzman slipped and fell, landing on a moving saw…
WEBSTER COUNTY, Mo.— A Missouri Amish man says he castrated himself, but deputies aren’t sure why or if he’s telling the truth. Deputies in Webster County found Jacob Schwartz lying in his bed and covered…
Expect no great rush of people converting to Anabaptist groups such as the Amish, Mennonite and Hutterite communities that in work, dress and communal life are separate in varying degrees from the larger culture. These…
OH — An appeals court has sided with a hospital that wants to force a 10-year-old Amish girl to resume chemotherapy after her parents decided to stop the treatments. The court ruled that a county…
OWEN SOUND, Ont. — An Owen Sound man charged with harassing members of the local Amish community became fascinated with them in 2008 and came to believe he had received “a commission from God to…
