STURGIS, MI – A family was shopping at a Southwest Michigan Walmart over the weekend when a woman stole their horse and buggy. Police said the Amish horse and buggy was parked outside the store at 1500 S. Centerville…
MANISTEE COUNTY, MI – A resident of the Clare area is facing ethnic intimidation charges for allegedly threatening an Amish family with a knife as they rode by in a buggy. Michigan State Police say…
In 2023, LNP | LancasterOnline reported on three fatal farm accidents. All of the victims were children or teenagers, and all were buried in Amish cemeteries. Levi Stoltzfus, 4, died in West Hempfield Township after…
MOSS POINT, MS – An Amish group has traveled to Moss Point from Ohio to begin a four-month rebuilding mission. The group has partnered with the Mennonite Disaster Service. Together, they’re helping to rebuild and…
KILGORE, NE – Turn south onto the blacktop out of this Cherry County ranch town, and the Sandhills seem to roll on for an eternity. “Wide-open spaces” aptly describes the endless prairie, where cowboys still work…
A woman involved in a fatal car crash that killed two young Amish girls appears to have called her identical twin sister to take the fall for her. Sarah Beth Petersen, 35, was originally reported…
There’s nothing like driving a slow car fast. You feel like you’re extracting every ounce of performance from it, which usually isn’t possible with today’s outrageously powerful machines. And while it’s maybe easiest to do…
Despite falling populations in other parts of the U.S., the Amish population is growing. A report from Young Center for Anabaptist and Pietist Studies at Elizabethtown College found that the Amish population in North America has risen…
The modern world is invading the Amish countryside. A former member of the famously plain-living community had the internet in quilt stitches over a story of how the national phone emergency alert on Oct. 4 got his friends…
Alexandria, New York – After a rear-end collision this week killed two young Amish boys, there is fear on the road in the Amish community. “I don’t …feel safe walking on pavement, I want to…
