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…
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…
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…
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,…
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…
BIRD IN HAND, PA – The search for a missing 18-year-old Amish woman in Lancaster County continues today. Linda Stoltzfoos was last seen on Sunday at church. She never returned to her home on Beach…
A Fillmore County District Court judge’s ruling that would require Fillmore County Amish men to install subsurface sewage treatment systems despite religious objections was upheld by the Minnesota Court of Appeals. Ammon Swartzentruber, Menno Mast,…
LANCASTER, PA — In mid-March, Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Wolf ordered all Pennsylvania schools to close, prompting an abrupt shutdown of the state’s public and private schools – and, it turns out, Amish one-room schoolhouses. Local…
HUMMELS WHARF — Jay Peachey worked as a mason, real estate agent and owned a landscaping business before finding his life’s purpose as a paramedic. “I look forward to going to work every day,” the…
Who needs machinery when you can get a few hundred of your closest friends to help you move your barn? Amazing video shows about 300 Amish men working in tandem to lift an enormous shed…
