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…
MEDINA, OH — The Medina County Sheriff’s Office is investigating a string of crimes committed against Amish people. Detectives are trying to figure out who is responsible for throwing railroad spikes, rocks and other items into…
In Lawrenceburg, Tennessee, shoppers are nearly as likely to see buggies parked outside the grocery store or the doctor’s office as they are to see vehicles. The small town of just under 12,000 people has…
It has been a year since a law requiring flashing electric lights to be installed on Amish buggies. The law was supposedly enacted on fears of buggy crashes, but some Amish communities have opted not…
If you treat a Plain community person, you’re treating a community. This phrase resonated with Dennis Keim after he heard it during a cultural competency training on treating Plain people, which include Christian groups such…
The Amish buggy with flashing lights may not have been center stage during Amish Safety Day July 29, but it received plenty of recognition from various Geauga County leaders during the event. Donated by the…
