Lancaster, Pennsylvania – Calling the crime a “straight-up fraud,” a federal judge Wednesday sentenced a midstate man to 37 months in prison for a $1.65 million investment scam that targeted the Amish and Mennonite communities.…
Lower Chanceford Township – A fatal crash Monday afternoon in Lower Chanceford Township led to the deaths of four family members, officials with the York County coroner’s office announced. The crash killed Emmanuel Esh, 73,…
Elizabethtown, Pennsylvania – Ironically, the first group convicted for religiously motivated violence under the U.S. Hate Crime Prevention Act was Amish. Or claimed to be. “This is a sad, sad bizarre story,” Amish scholar Donald…
Lancaster County, Pennsylvania – Police are investigating bizarre incidents reported at Amish homes in eastern Lancaster County. In at least two cases since late July, a man entered a home and touched young females as…
Strasburg, Pennsylvania – People in Amish communities do not drive cars. They drive horses and buggies. They do not use electric lights. They use gas lamps and candles. Even though they live in communities all…
Geauga County, Ohio – A teen who drove the car used to commit organized attacks on the Amish was sentenced Oct. 27 to 8 1/2 years in prison in Geauga County Common Pleas Court. Chase…
Lancaster County, Pennsylvania – Nothing says “Lancaster County” in Pennsylvania like the sight and sound of a lathered horse pulling a square, black buggy down the road. The county undoubtedly has more of the horse-powered…
Lancaster, Pennsylvania – A Pennsylvania man who pleaded guilty in a drive-by shooting that killed a horse pulling a buggy with an Amish family inside in Lancaster County has been sentenced to one to two…
Lancaster, Pennsylvania – Merlin Miller, the eccentric leader of the Ohio Amish community on TV’s “Amish Mafia,” appeared Friday at Lancaster Newspapers’ door in an attempt to collar the governor for a few private words.…
Wilmington Township, Pennsylvania – An Amish school in northern Lawrence County was put on lockdown last week when a man behaving in an unusual manner trespassed into the schoolyard. State police said that a white…
