New Castle, Pennsylvania – Two police officers posing as Amish women tried to catch a man who reportedly was exposing himself to Amish children. Despite their efforts, they didn’t catch him. However, they had a…
Topeka, Indiana – Authorities in northern Indiana say three Amish school teachers escaped a small schoolhouse that had filled with carbon monoxide gas. Topeka Fire Chief Stewart Bender says the three teachers lived in the…
East Fallowfield Township, Pennsylvania — Police are seeking help with a case involving a handgun being pointed at an Amish man in his buggy Tuesday. State police in Meadville are investigating the act of simple…
Burton Township, Ohio -The Ashtabula man who crashed into an Amish buggy, is now charged. Douglas Learn, 42, is charged with dui, driving under suspension and aggravated vehicular homicide. Learn is locked up in the…
Convicted Ohio Amish sect leader Sam Mullet has challenged his 15-year prison sentence for orchestrating a series of beard-chopping attacks on other Amish, saying the federal hate crimes law that put him behind bars violates…
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania – The dozens of children learning to read and write at the six Amish schools in Somerset County get there the old-fashioned way: They walk. No yellow buses ferry children from their farms…
New Wilmington, Pennsylvania – State police are searching for an unlikely suspect in a western Pennsylvania hit-and-run accident: the driver of an Amish buggy. Troopers from the Mercer barracks say the buggy twice hit a…
Amish life is more than plain dress, a Germanic dialect and an aversion to modern technology. It is also an insular faith which demands that adherents live, worship and marry within the community. Those strict…
Philadelphia, New York – State police say a 35-year-old man has died after his car hit two horses that wandered onto a rural northern New York road after breaking loose from an Amish farm. Troopers…
Amish life is more than plain dress, a Germanic dialect and an aversion to modern technology. It is also an insular faith which demands that adherents live, worship and marry within the community. Those strict…
