Community rallies behind Amish to restore barn after devastating fire
SOUTH BEND, IN – The Middlebury community has rallied behind one of their own after a fire destroyed a calf barn nearly two weeks ago. Back on August 5th, 16 News Now was on the…
Amish boy, 4, kicked in head by horse
PITTSBURGH, PA – A 4-year-old Amish boy was flown to UPMC Children’s Hospital in Pittsburgh on Wednesday after being kicked by a horse. Neshannock Township police were called about 10 a.m. to the township municipal…
Thousands gathered in Lancaster to pray for missing Amish teenager, Linda Stoltzfoos
LANCASTER COUNTY, PA —Several thousand people gathered for a prayer ride for missing Amish teenager Linda Stoltzfoos. Rescue crews continue to search for her following an arrest of a man in July who has been…
First Amendment Rights of Amish Take Center Stage In Battle Over Huge New York Wind Project
Cattaraugus County, New York – The Swartzentruber Amish community in Cattaraugus County, New York are in danger of having their horse-drawn carriages run into the ditch by Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s all-renewable-energy express train. That train…
One month later: Everything we know about the disappearance of Amish teen Linda Stoltzfoos
It was Father’s Day, and Linda Stoltzfoos was on her way home from church. She told friends she’d meet them at a youth meeting after she went back to her family’s Bird-in-Hand farm to change…
Amish Country accountant gets prison time for running $60M Ponzi scheme
The former owner of a Pennsylvania creamery who ran a Ponzi scheme that preyed on members of the Amish and Mennonite communities was sentenced Monday to 10 years in federal prison for his crimes. Philip…
ODOT study: Northern county roads most dangerous for Amish buggies
Every day on Ohio roadways, semitrailers, cars and trucks traveling more than 50 mph zip past horse-drawn buggies clip-clopping along at a 6-mph pace. Millions of drivers share the highways with over 76,000 Amish and…
Man arrested in kidnapping of still-missing Amish woman, 18; clothing matching hers found
A Paradise Township, Lancaster County, man has been charged with the kidnapping of Linda Stoltzfoos, an 18-year-old Amish woman who went missing after a church service near Bird-in-Hand on Father’s Day. She hasn’t been seen since. An arrest…
For Amish family building home in Carroll County, commissioners make sprinkler exception
A Carroll County ordinance requires new homes to be built with sprinkler systems, but the commissioners unanimously voted to make an exception for an Amish family’s home that will be without electricity. Commissioner Stephen Wantz,…
Missing Lancaster, Pa. Amish teen: ‘We have no answers.”
At about 12:30 p.m., on Sunday, June 21, Linda Stoltzfoos, a tall, slim 18-year-old Amish woman, left a church service at a home in Bird-in-Hand, east of Lancaster, Pa., and started walking home. And then, she vanished. None of the people…