Amish in the News

News sometimes travels very fast among Amish folks! So perhaps you’ve already heard about the Johnsonburg Awakening. I’ve been blessed to have witnessed it from the day it began, which was January 31st of this year.

A mid-Michigan organic dairy farm is fighting state safety regulators, five years after a 19-year-old family member was fatally electrocuted while removing a metal pole from a grain bin.

A new Ohio law requiring Amish buggies and other animal-drawn vehicles to display a yellow flashing light while driving on public streets goes into effect Aug. 31.

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AUBURN, IN – Leaders in DeKalb County are looking at a buggy tax.

KANSAS CITY, MO - A teen from Jamesport, Missouri, needs a new heart.

Eddie Swartzentruber was just 17 years old when he abandoned the only way of life he had ever known. Now, at 25, Swartzentruber is a business owner who has started to blow up on TikTok after sharing why he left the Amish community.

Another member of a local Amish family has died following an accidental farm tractor rollover, authorities say.

Manheim Township-based Mennonite Disaster Service is preparing to help people in eastern Kentucky impacted after torrential rains on July 28 led to historic flash floods and mudslides.

PEOLI, OH - Renee Brown Parker has been a voracious reader since she was a child.

The Mennonite Disaster Service will be working to rebuild four homes in the Monte Lake area that were lost in the 2021 fire season.

BILLINGS - The Amish and Mennonite communities joined the cleanup following the floods that hit south-central Montana.

In December of 2019, the Yoder family was traveling east on Route 60 in Buckingham County when George M. Lee crashed his Chevrolet Silverado into their horse and buggy, killing mother Sylvia Yoder, throwing her husband from the vehicle...

If you can write a book with your father, Liz Miller highly recommends it. "It was a really fun experience to have that time together," she said about helping her father, Dr. Albert Miller, write his memoirs about leaving the Amish...

ASHLAND, OH — Gov. Mike DeWine signed a bill earlier this week that requires Amish buggies and other animal-drawn vehicles to display a yellow flashing light while driving on public streets.

As Holmes County Deputy Sheriff Sgt. Joe Mullet said to the assembled fifth- through eighth-grade Amish students gathered at Chestnut Ridge Elementary School recently, you can be doing everything right while riding your bike on the road...

Sexual abuse in Pennsylvania Amish communities has been rampant and underreported, according to recent reports, leading the state to consider new legislation that would require more education and prevention measures within the faith community.

With its furniture made by a couple of dozen rural American workshops and in-house craftsmen, Arcola, Ill., manufacturer Simply Amish would seem to be far removed from the global supply-chain strains that have hobbled most businesses.

BATH COUNTY, KY - Two years ago, five Amish children were swept away in a creek in Bath County, and all of them tragically passed away.

Pennsylvania State Police have placed two troopers on administrative duty amid an investigation into the shooting of a horse that had escaped from a farm in Chester County last December. The animal was euthanized after it was shot on a highway.

BREMEN, IN - The Elkhart County barn arson suspects are now facing charges for reportedly setting an Amish school on fire last May.

CENTRE COUNTY, PA - Centre County Coroner Scott Sayers tells 6 News that a 16-year-old Amish boy was killed Tuesday morning in a farming accident in Potter Township.

In Crawford County, an Amish owned store went up in flames late Sunday afternoon.

ARCOLA, IL — The Illinois Amish Heritage Center is working to restore one of the oldest Amish barns in Illinois.

A 74-year old Amish man stands accused of sexually assaulting several children in Ashland County.  Joas Swartzentruber, of Polk, was indicted last week on a total of nine charges, including two counts each of rape, gross sexual imposition and unlawful sexual conduct with a minor. 

PHILADELPHIA — Hand-painted signs in Amish country often advertise fresh eggs, shoofly pies or handmade quilts, but the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives is trying to determine whether one Lancaster County farmer’s sizable gun collection was also his side hustle.

HUNTSBURG TOWNSHIP, OH – A large snowman is smiling down on one Geauga County community.

ASHLAND, O.H. (WJW) – The Fox 8 I-Team has learned two teens are under investigation for an assault carried out on Amish children.

Wild video shows an Amish buggy ripping donuts in New York State. Have you ever seen anything like this!?

LAWRENCEBURG, TN – The Amish community in Lawrenceburg generally keep to themselves and mind their own business.

Town of Clinton, WI - One man is hurt after an Amish logging incident in Vernon County Monday afternoon.