MILLERSBURG, OH — As a clocktower bell tolled on Tuesday from somewhere in this small downtown, its muffled sound entering the third-floor courtroom, Judge Robert Rinfret was counting. He was counting his own years of…
WEST FARMINGTON – Ora Hochstetler, 82, was drafted into the Army when he was 25. He was Amish, a pacifist faith, but answered the call anyway. When he came home, he was shunned. Hochstetler served in…
NICHOLVILLE, NY – An Amish family of five escaped a fire in Nicholville Wednesday night. It was a stubborn fire at 185 Water Road. It broke out not long after 11 p.m.. “We got called…
ESCANABA TOWNSHIP, MI — This summer Amish families moved into the Delta County area, and Amish alert signs were put up to caution other motorists using the roads to keep an eye out for the…
BERNE, IN – The Amish community near Berne is mourning, after an 11-year-old boy was shot and killed by one of his siblings. “This was 100% preventable,” Sgt. Troy Habegger from the Adams County Sheriff’s…
DIGGINS, MO – Not far off of Highway 60 is an Amish community that calls Diggins their home. Early Monday morning, around 2 a.m., a storm rolled through the Ozarks damaging various communities in its…
An Amish family has filed a lawsuit seeking to overturn New York’s state law banning religious exemptions to vaccinations for students. The case involves unvaccinated children attending Cranberry Marsh School, a private Amish-run school in…
LA FARGE, WI – There is no car in the driveway, neither phone nor electricity in the house. Handmade clothes dry on the line. It’s fall 2018, and La Farge physician James DeLine has brought…
TOWN OF MARCELLON, WI – An Amish horse and buggy created big problems for the Columbia County Sheriff’s Office this weekend. Officials say the unoccupied vehicle was reported as a runaway just before noon on Saturday along…
Republicans are seeking to widen their chances of winning Pennsylvania again by targeting the state’s most conservative residents: the Amish, the Washington Post reports. The big picture: In the 2016 presidential election, Pennsylvania’s 20 electoral college votes went…
