The Amish and Mennonite communities will have to prepare for an arduous push to implement a new law ending religious exemptions for school vaccinations in New York. The mobilization comes after state lawmakers passed the vaccination mandate in response…
An Amish man faces charges including DUI after his horse-drawn buggy collided with a car in Kentucky. Rueben Yoder, 34, was arrested by the Smiths Grove Police Department after they responded to a crash at Hydro…
An Amish man faces charges including DUI after his horse-drawn buggy collided with a car in Kentucky. Rueben Yoder, 34, was arrested by the Smiths Grove Police Department after they responded to a crash at Hydro…
Followers of Jacob Byler’s faith tend to shun the trappings of technology and their usual mode of transport is a horse-drawn buggy. But the 21-year-old Amish man wanted to travel a bit faster when he…
ANGOLA, IN – A northeastern Indiana man who pleaded guilty in a drunken-driving crash involving a horse-drawn carriage near the Michigan state line has been ordered to pay $427,000 in restitution to the victims. A Steuben…
MICHIGAN — An Indiana man who hit an Amish horse-drawn carriage in southern Michigan killing three children told police he was drunk at the time of the crash. Two children, ages 6 and 2 years…
FARGO, N.D. — John Shrock was 17 when he decided to flee his Amish community in Wisconsin after facing the pressure of “constantly trying to live up to perfection.” Shrock, now living in North Dakota,…
In the last five years, there have sadly been a few major crashes between motor cars, and horse drawn buggies. One accident even sent four kids to the hospital, and a horse died. Up to…
SHENANDOAH, OH – A group of women wearing bonnets and dark-colored dresses smiled as they toured Shiloh Medical Services, a new clinic at Ohio 13 and Ohio 603. “You worked on our little boy,” one…
AUGUSTA, Maine — Gov. Janet Mills on May 30 signed into law a measure to improve road safety in Amish communities and across the state. The bill, LD 198, introduced by Rep. David McCrea, D-Fort Fairfield, and…
