Fonda, New York – The trial of a St. Johnsville man accused of sexually abusing six Amish boys from two western Montgomery County families over several years opened Tuesday in Montgomery County Court. Montgomery County…
Fairchild, Wisconsin – Amos Borntreger has no plans to leave the house he built for his wife and five children in rural Fairchild despite a court order to vacate the property. “I guess we’ll take…
Fairchild, Wisconsin – A ruling Monday that an Amish couple and their four young children have to vacate their rural Fairchild home “immediately” for failing to obtain the proper sanitary and building permits may have a…
Nappanee, Indiana – Chester Weaver believes in fundamentals of Christianity such as the virgin birth, Christ’s bodily resurrection and the creation story. Fundamentalism, however, is another matter — and one at odds with Anabaptism, according…
Butler Township, Michigan – A 3-year-old Amish girl was killed in a house fire west of Litchfield Wednesday. The fire broke out before 11 a.m. at a home in the 1100 block of Crandell Road…
Indianapolis, Indiana – The Indiana Bureau of Motor Vehicles could soon issue photo-less state identification cards under a proposal that an Indiana Senate committee passed Tuesday. The Homeland Security and Transportation Committee voted 8-0 to…
Gettysburg, Ohio – They aren’t Amish, but even many of their neighbors in rural Darke County, Ohio misidentify the little-known Old Order German Baptist Brethren, or Petitioners — a nickname bestowed on the group when…
Flemingsburg, Kentucky – An Amish teenager who ran away from her Fleming County family in February is returning home. Sheriff Gary Kinder said he received a phone call from the father of 16-year-old Clara Shetler…
Ritzville, Washngton – On a foggy morning, a woman in traditional black colonial dress darted from her home to the community mess hall, like a messenger with critically important news. Down the street, John Stahl…
Cleveland, Ohio – Eight members of an Amish sect received reduced prison sentences yesterday in the wake of a federal-court ruling in Ohio that they did not commit a hate crime when they cut off…
