Amish in the News
Pennsylvania state trooper saves 3-year-old Amish girl from runaway buggy drawn by galloping horse
| October 19, 2020A Pennsylvania state trooper rescued a three-year-old Amish girl from a buggy being drawn by an out-of-control horse.
Should Amish Buggies Have A Yearly Safety Inspection?
| October 18, 2020I have an idea for the state to make a chunk of change. Why not make the Amish register each of their buggies and have a yearly inspection and safety check, just like those of us with motor vehicles are required to do? I believe the buggies ruin our roads.
Backtracking: In Our Times: Amish settlements began appearing locally in 2000
| September 8, 2020It has been nearly 20 years since we’ve seen those bright yellow signs with a horse and buggy symbol within, along our local roadways.
Truck strikes Amish hay wagon, killing 1
| September 2, 2020ROOT, N.Y. - A man died after he was struck by a pickup truck while operating his Amish hay wagon Tuesday night. The accident happened on State Highway 162 between Currytown Road and Darrow Road at about 8:15 p.m., Montgomery County Sherriff Jeffery Smith said.
Maine man charged with manslaughter, OUI, in deadly Amish wagon crash
| September 1, 2020NEW LIMERICK, ME - A Merrill man accused of hitting an Amish wagon in Aroostook County, killing one person and seriously injuring another, has been charged with manslaughter.
GoFundMe to help family after violent horse-and-buggy crash in Yates County exceeds $30,000
| August 26, 2020YATES COUNTY - The fundraiser for the family impacted by a crash involving a car and horse-and-buggy in Yates County has surpassed its goal.
Amish residents travel to Cedar Rapids to help with storm damage
| August 17, 2020In a Facebook post published by Teresa Simmons Dummons, some Amish residents from Southern Iowa traveled to Cedar Rapids on Saturday to help locals with clean-up.
Community rallies behind Amish to restore barn after devastating fire
| August 14, 2020SOUTH BEND, IN - The Middlebury community has rallied behind one of their own after a fire destroyed a calf barn nearly two weeks ago.
Amish boy, 4, kicked in head by horse
| August 12, 2020PITTSBURGH, PA - A 4-year-old Amish boy was flown to UPMC Children's Hospital in Pittsburgh on Wednesday after being kicked by a horse.
Thousands gathered in Lancaster to pray for missing Amish teenager, Linda Stoltzfoos
| August 10, 2020LANCASTER COUNTY, PA —Several thousand people gathered for a prayer ride for missing Amish teenager Linda Stoltzfoos. Rescue crews continue to search for her following an arrest of a man in July who has been accused of kidnapping her.
First Amendment Rights of Amish Take Center Stage In Battle Over Huge New York Wind Project
| July 30, 2020he Swartzentruber Amish community in Cattaraugus County, New York are in danger of having their horse-drawn carriages run into the ditch by Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s all-renewable-energy express train.
One month later: Everything we know about the disappearance of Amish teen Linda Stoltzfoos
| July 22, 2020It was Father’s Day, and Linda Stoltzfoos was on her way home from church. She told friends she’d meet them at a youth meeting after she went back to her family’s Bird-in-Hand farm to change her clothes. But she never made it, and she hasn’t been seen since.
Amish Country accountant gets prison time for running $60M Ponzi scheme
| July 21, 2020The former owner of a Pennsylvania creamery who ran a Ponzi scheme that preyed on members of the Amish and Mennonite communities was sentenced Monday to 10 years in federal prison for his crimes.
ODOT study: Northern county roads most dangerous for Amish buggies
| July 20, 2020Every day on Ohio roadways, semitrailers, cars and trucks traveling more than 50 mph zip past horse-drawn buggies clip-clopping along at a 6-mph pace.
Man arrested in kidnapping of still-missing Amish woman, 18; clothing matching hers found
| July 11, 2020A Paradise Township, Lancaster County, man has been charged with the kidnapping of Linda Stoltzfoos, an 18-year-old Amish woman who went missing after a church service near Bird-in-Hand on Father’s Day. She hasn’t been seen since.
For Amish family building home in Carroll County, commissioners make sprinkler exception
| July 1, 2020A Carroll County ordinance requires new homes to be built with sprinkler systems, but the commissioners unanimously voted to make an exception for an Amish family’s home that will be without electricity.
Missing Lancaster, Pa. Amish teen: 'We have no answers."
| June 29, 2020At about 12:30 p.m., on Sunday, June 21, Linda Stoltzfoos, a tall, slim 18-year-old Amish woman, left a church service at a home in Bird-in-Hand, east of Lancaster, Pa., and started walking home. And then, she vanished.
MISSING: Police looking for missing 18-year-old last seen in Bird in Hand
| June 23, 2020BIRD IN HAND, PA - The search for a missing 18-year-old Amish woman in Lancaster County continues today.
Minnesota Court of Appeals upholds ruling in Amish gray-water case
| June 8, 2020A Fillmore County District Court judge's ruling that would require Fillmore County Amish men to install subsurface sewage treatment systems despite religious objections was upheld by the Minnesota Court of Appeals.
Amish schools: ‘Distance learning’ involves paper and pencil
| June 6, 2020LANCASTER, PA — In mid-March, Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Wolf ordered all Pennsylvania schools to close, prompting an abrupt shutdown of the state’s public and private schools – and, it turns out, Amish one-room schoolhouses.
Amazing moment 300 Amish men lift a huge barn with their bare hands and move it across a field
| May 19, 2020Who needs machinery when you can get a few hundred of your closest friends to help you move your barn?
Clergy confidentiality at issue in Amish bishop's case
| May 10, 2020The criminal complaint against the Amish bishop is clear about how he learned of a church member’s alleged sexual assault on three young teenage girls:
Amish bishop arrested, accused of failing to report sex abuse by church member, cops say
| April 24, 2020PEQUEA TOWNSHIP, PA — An Amish bishop was charged this week by Pennsylvania authorities with failing to report sexual abuse allegedly committed by one of his congregants.
Ohio Police bust Large Drunken Amish Party
| April 22, 2020The party took place in Huntsburg Township, Ohio. Huntsburg is home to a very large Amish population about an hour East of Cleveland. There have been reports along with pictures of large Amish gatherings sent to police during the Stay Home order.
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Ohio sheriff files charges after Amish hold large barn party
| April 22, 2020Police in Northeast Ohio broke up a large gathering of Amish people over the weekend after a man spotted a group of buggies and called 911 to report a stay-at-home order violation.
Amish youth cited for underage drinking party in Mercer County
| April 20, 2020MERCER COUNTY, PA - State Police say they broke up a drinking party involving eight Amish teens and one 20-year-old in Mercer County.
Amish wedding investigated
| April 10, 2020WARREN, OH — When it comes down to love or the law, it seems the law will prevail.
Amish community pitches in to create medical supplies for Ohio hospitals
| April 9, 2020On Thursday, The New York Times reported that an Amish community in Ohio is mobilizing to create medical supplies for local hospitals.
The Amish Are Getting a COVID-19 Drive-Through Testing Center for Horse and Buggies
| April 6, 2020Hospitals and clinics in cities across the U.S. have recently established drive-through testing for COVID-19. It’s the strategy that enabled countries like South Korea and Japan to test as many as one out of every 142 people for SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes the infectious disease, thus helping to track and slow the virus’ spread.
Amish schools still meeting for class despite Governor's orders
| April 5, 2020BLOOMFIELD, IA - Back in mid-March, Iowa Governor Kim Reynolds gave a directive that all Iowa schools close for a period of four weeks, a measure taken to help control the spread of the coronavirus that causes the COVID-19 disease.