BUCKS, PA – On the second day of Lee Kaplan’s sexual-abuse trial, a girl took the stand to describe summers swimming in Kaplan’s backyard pool, learning history from documentaries, tending to the chickens, picking fruit…
LANCASTER, PA – Forty years sounds like a lifetime. It also can fly past in the blink of an eye. Just ask the Rev. Sam Smucker. In 1977, Smucker and 30 other people gathered for…
ASHVILLE, NY – The Chautauqua Children’s Safety Education Village, located at 2695 Route 394 in Ashville, will receive an Amish buggy on May 31st. The child-sized buggy is being donated to the Safety Village by…
SEYMOUR, MO – Two babies are hospitalized from a outbreak of whooping cough in the Amish community in Webster County. County health officials now are trying to control the spread of the disease. Six cases…
MONTAGUE, PEI, CA – In the past year, more than 20 Amish families have moved to P.E.I., turning heads with their distinctive clothing and old-style transportation. After exchanging their farms in Ontario for more fertile,…
An Amish bishop in Dauphin County has been charged with failing to report two cases of child sexual abuse. Christ M. Stoltzfus, 69, of Roller Road in Mifflin Township, told investigators that he was informed…
DUBLIN, VA — Ammon “AJ” Miller’s journey of faith has taken him from the horse and buggy to a 2004 turbo diesel Volkswagen Jetta. The same journey led his twice-shunned family from an antiquated…
WILLSBORO, N.Y. – There are new neighbors for Essex County residents. Community members in the North Country say they’re happy to see Amish families moving into town, but there’s one problem. It boils down to traffic…
ASHLAND, OH – Cinnamon Lake, a cluster of 500 newer homes about 40 miles west of Akron, promotes itself as being in the heart of Amish country yet within easy reach of 70 mph freeways…
NEW WILMINGTON, PA – A mother who is fighting the Child Protective Service system to get her children back was threatened during a mediation hearing last week. Elizabeth Byler of Pennsylvania, who grew up in…
