LANCASTER, PA – Over the past couple of years, Strasburg Township’s zoning office found itself fielding more and more requests from Amish to house horses on residential lots. Most Amish in Lancaster County today work…
Some Amish farmers in Chester County are dealing with a nightmare situation: uninformed thieves in search of a free high. Two farmers in Honey Brook, Pennsylvania, told the Reading Eagle this week that they’re dealing with…
The population of the Amish is projected to be greater than the current population of the United States in 215 years if the Amish growth rate, which has held constant for more than 100 years,…
LITTLE VALLEY, NY — Amish children who have not been vaccinated will not be allowed to ride on school buses in New York state when school starts next month. Cattaraugus County Public Health Director Dr.…
An Amish man who admitted to molesting four girls when he was a teenager was sentenced to prison Thursday by a Dauphin County judge. The case of Ephraim King is the third involving the prosecution…
SUGARCREEK, OH — The Walnut Creek Amish Country Flea Market suffered extensive damage from an early morning fire Wednesday. The cause of the fire still is unclear at this point, Sugarcreek Fire Department Chief Kevin…
PARKMAN, OH – Many hands make light work, or so the old saying goes. It was certainly true for this group of men from the Amish community around Parkman, Ohio. A couple of hundred men…
DARLINGTON, WI — Seven Amish girls, one as young as 3, were sexually abused by older male relatives, according to criminal complaints filed Aug. 9 in Lafayette County Circuit Court. Three men, all related to…
DALTON, WI – Marquette County resident David Miller held a tape measure between the spokes on his horse buggy Friday at his family’s rural residence in the town of Buffalo near Dalton. Columbia County Board…
SPRINGFIELD TOWNSHIP, IN – An Allen County couple are inheriting an unusual manufacturing venture – building horse-drawn buggies for the area Amish community. And the couple, Joe and Becky Graber of Spencerville, have asked the…
