Amish in the News

ELIMSPORT, PA - Amish families’ buggies have long traveled the gently rolling roads of White Deer Valley, a bucolic part of the state north of Harrisburg. But lately they haven’t been quite as welcomed. The problem is what the horses pulling them leave behind.

OSWEGO COUNTY, NY - A recent car-buggy accident in Mexico in which an Amish woman died has heightened the discussion of safety for cars and buggies traveling on area roadways.

NYC, NEW YORK - The Amish Heritage Foundation is holding its second annual conference in New York City this weekend, a year after its inaugural event at Franklin & Marshall College.

DARLINGTON, WI - Firefighters are battling a burning barn in the town of Darlington.

FOUNTAIN CITY, IN - Wayne County commissioners on Wednesday stated their willingness to rescind a stop-work order issued by the county at the state's request if doing so would allow an Amish family to complete a half-finished home on Boundary Road.

HOLMES COUNTY, OH - In a misty rain and the dark of early morning, they came from across eastern Holmes County.

ASHLAND, OH - A law enforcement official says he's persuaded the bishops of an Ohio Amish sect to install blinking lights on buggies to make them more visible to motorists.

LANSING, MI - A set of companion bills introduced in the Michigan House and Senate would require horse-drawn buggies to display lights while operating on the roads at night.

ASHLAND, OH - Ashland County’s “English” population has to share the road with Amish buggies.

MILLERSBURG, OH — As a clocktower bell tolled on Tuesday from somewhere in this small downtown, its muffled sound entering the third-floor courtroom, Judge Robert Rinfret was counting.

CLEARFIELD COUNTY, PA – An Amish woman in Clearfield County was fined Tuesday and sentenced to probation for not protecting four of her daughters from being molested by her husband.

WEST FARMINGTON - Ora Hochstetler, 82, was drafted into the Army when he was 25. He was Amish, a pacifist faith, but answered the call anyway. When he came home, he was shunned.

NICHOLVILLE, NY - An Amish family of five escaped a fire in Nicholville Wednesday night.

ESCANABA TOWNSHIP, MI — This summer Amish families moved into the Delta County area, and Amish alert signs were put up to caution other motorists using the roads to keep an eye out for the Amish in their horse-drawn buggies.

BERNE, IN - The Amish community near Berne is mourning, after an 11-year-old boy was shot and killed by one of his siblings.

DIGGINS, MO - Not far off of Highway 60 is an Amish community that calls Diggins their home.

An Amish family has filed a lawsuit seeking to overturn New York’s state law banning religious exemptions to vaccinations for students.

It’s fall 2018, and La Farge physician James DeLine has brought us to talk with Barbara and Daniel Hochstetler, part of the large Amish population in Wisconsin’s Driftless Region. Six of their 11 children live with siterosterolemia, an extremely rare disease that can cause joint damage, stroke or heart attack, due to accumulations of a plant-based fat akin to cholesterol.

TOWN OF MARCELLON, WI - An Amish horse and buggy created big problems for the Columbia County Sheriff's Office this weekend.

Republicans are seeking to widen their chances of winning Pennsylvania again by targeting the state's most conservative residents: the Amish, the Washington Post reports.

Anne Beiler had an upbringing unlike most people. "I grew up on an Amish farm in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania," she told InsideEdition.com. It may seem like an unlikely start for someone who would grow up to found Auntie Anne's pretzels, the chain of soft pretzel stands at malls across America.

Two Hart County teenagers were arrested and a juvenile charged in a string of burglaries involving Amish schools and properties.

WALES — A dozen Amish families are moving onto a large farm off Leeds Junction Road, creating Maine’s fourth enclave of the simple-living, tradition-minded Christian sect. 

Two Indiana County volunteer firefighters have been jailed for allegedly setting fire to an Amish furniture store about 15 miles north of Indiana — one of a string of 11 suspicious fires in that region since August 2018, state police said Wednesday.

TikTok, a popular app which allows users to record themselves in short videos, is being utilized by a number of religious groups attempting to spread their message — most notably, the Amish, who are famously opposed to modern technology.

INDIANA - An Indiana man who authorities said leveraged his Amish heritage to lure unwitting investors into a scheme that duped them out of millions has been ordered to pay over $5.2 million in penalties and restitution.

Rebecca Fisher never expected her first video on TikTok, a mobile-only video-sharing app, to go viral.

INDIANA - A man who authorities said took advantage of his Amish heritage to recruit novice investors into a fraudulent scheme has been ordered to pay $5.2 million, most of it to his clients.

LANSING, MI — An oddity in a rural county's car crash statistics prompted Michigan traffic experts to take a closer look at the dangers of cars and horse-drawn buggies sharing the road.

LANSING, MI — An oddity in a rural county's car crash statistics prompted Michigan traffic experts to take a closer look at the dangers of cars and horse-drawn buggies sharing the road.