The Swartzentruber Amish are suing to overturn Ohio’s new traffic law that requires animal-drawn buggies to have yellow flashing lights, saying the law conflicts with the First Amendment protecting their religious expression. The Swartzentruber order, which…
A $70,000 federal highway-safety grant has been awarded to the Branch-Hillsdale-St. Joseph Health Agency in an effort to reduce vehicle crashes with Amish buggies. The goal, according to terms of the grant, is to reduce…
LANCASTER COUNTY, PA — About 100 miles north of Washington DC, at the nexus of quiet country roads, sits a network of bustling small businesses and community connections that helped deliver the swing state of Pennsylvania…
On a recent weekday afternoon, an Amish man in a horse-drawn buggy navigated through a busy intersection of auto traffic in Pennsylvania’s Lancaster County, past a billboard proclaiming: “Pray for God’s Mercy for Our Nation.”…
HARRISBURG — With only two weeks left until the presidential election, Amish communities are experiencing déjà vu. That is because efforts are higher than ever to encourage voting among a population that’s traditionally refrained from…
Eleven members of an Amish family – including a 1-year-old – were hospitalized in Pennsylvania Friday night after ingesting wild, “toxic mushrooms,” local authorities said. A member of the family in southeastern Pennsylvania’s Peach Bottom…
While they are not as common as regular vehicle crashes, when a horse-drawn buggy is hit by car, or when the horse is just spooked by one, the results are likely to be deadly. They…
A 23-year-old survivor of the 2006 Pennsylvania school shooting that took place at an Amish schoolhouse has died, nearly 18 years after the shooting occurred. On Tuesday, Sept. 3, the family of Rosanna S. King…
SAUK COUNTY, WI – Nine juveniles from the Reedsburg area have been cited for disorderly conduct related to multiple reports of harassing behavior toward members of the Amish community. The investigation is related to the Reedsburg…
Swartzentruber sect refuses flashing lights on buggies but won’t take the matter to court. For lawyers and students at Harvard, it’s a valid religious-freedom case. In bodycam footage from an April 2023 traffic stop in…
