Lancaster County, Pennsylvania – A Lancaster County man will face trial for allegedly touching an Amish teenager and woman while they slept during two separate burglaries. Justin Schwanke, a Goodville parolee who has a prior burglary…
Pinecraft, Florida – Not only is the Suncoast a haven for snowbirds, but also a group of people who come from Holmes County, Ohio and Lancaster, Pennsylvania — the Amish and Mennonites. The Pinecraft community, located off of Bahia…
Marion, Ohio – Since she was 9 years old, Emma Lister had helped her mother, Sarah Schwartz, bake cookies, pies and breads in the kitchen of their home near Lancaster. Her father, Levi Schwartz, then would…
Elizabethtown, Pennsylvania – “Amish Mafia” notwithstanding, the man responsible for what many around the world know of the Amish is Donald Kraybill. Now the widely known Plain Sect researcher is retiring. Kraybill is teaching his last…
Middlefield, Ohio – A second teenager has been sentenced to prison aftercommitting crimes against the Amish in Geauga, Trumbull and Ashtabula counties last year. Christopher Barnett, 18, of Middlefield Township, pleaded guilty on Nov. 24…
Indianapolis, Indiana – Indiana House committee members have passed a bill allowing a religious exemption from photographs on state identification cards. The Roads and Transportation Committee approved the bill Wednesday that would allow the Bureau…
Curryville, MO – An Amish man remains in custody after being arrested Saturday in connection to several fires that took place around the area south of Curryville Saturday afternoon and evening. Read more
Lancaster, Pennsylvania – A Goodville parolee has been charged with breaking into a second local Amish home. On this occasion, police allege, Justin J. Schwanke sexually assaulted a teen girl in bed. Read more
Herman, MY – Passing drivers would slow and stop to gawk at the Howells’ house and barn and old mobile home, which were shrouded by a line of trees and overgrowth along the road. So…
Nickel Mines, Pennsylvania – The winter solstice is past and each cold but lengthening day brings closer the time when white flowers will blossom on five young trees standing in a shallow and tragic valley.…
