WAYNE COUNTY — The Wayne County Sheriff says that suspects have been passing counterfeit $100 bills in the Amish community. These bills look very genuine at first glance and will pass the “pen test” vendors often…
SPENCERVILLE, IN — An Amish pallet factory has been cited for a dozen child labor violations involving seven different children. The most serious violation the Indiana Occupational Safety and Health Administration (IOSHA) cited the factory near…
CANTON — An Amish couple is waiting to find out if child neglect charges against them will be dropped following a closed-door conference Thursday in Family Court. The couple, Annie L. and Levi M. Shetler,…
Eau Claire — Here in western Wisconsin many of us wouldn’t be too shocked to see a horse drawn buggy roll through our town, we know there are Amish communities mixed into our rural communities. One…
“Because they’ve never been written about by scholars in books before and because the Amish are a human community and there are incidents of child abuse. There are incidents of domestic violence. There are Amish…
The Amish, the ex-Amish and the Amish scholars gathered together for the Elizabethtown College Amish Conference on June 6-8 to discuss various aspects of Amish life, from religion to technology to healthcare. Gazing into the…
GALEN NY — Two Amish were sent to jail and fined for the death of nine dogs in December. Town Justice Carol Heald sentenced Merlin Schmucker, 26, of 849 Burch Road, Galen, and Jonathan Eicher,…
Lancaster, PA — When young people get to their late teens or early 20s, they must decide whether to remain in the church and adopt its austere rules, and the researchers found more traditional Amish…
Baraboo, Wisconsin — Less than a week after the jury acquitted him of three criminal charges, Eric Defort and Phillip Ferris, attorneys for the Wisconsin Department of Justice (DOJ), move to have the judge revoke…
The annual eighth-grade graduation took place Wednesday at Westview School Corp., and about half the graduating pupils were Amish. For most of these students, the graduation ceremony signals the end of their formal education, as…
