Influencers, or social media users who use their platform to affect the purchase decisions of their followers, can now be found among the Plain community. Young Amish women have been known in the past ...

Amish people who decide to leave their community to live in "English," or non-Amish American, culture are typically around 18 years old and have limited resources. In Greenwich, Ohio, the faith-based ...

A Works Progress Administration study conducted during the latter years of the Great Depression found that Lancaster County’s Old Order Amish comprised the most economically and culturally stable ...

Melissa Thomas organizes mobile mammography clinics for Amish women. "It’s a typical mammogram room—if you went to a hospital it would look exactly the same," says mammographer Valerie Rice. "It’s ...

Listen back to the audio of this conversation here (starts at 17:05) & here (starts at 18:10). Karen Johnson-Weiner has devoted more than thirty years to studying the lives of people who are Amish, ...

NICKEL MINES, Pa. — Calling on its faith for guidance, the Amish community here coupled sorrow with forgiveness Monday after a milk-truck driver armed with a small arsenal burst into a one-room ...

FOWLER, N.Y. -- A northern New York couple kidnapped two Amish sisters from their family farm stand and planned to turn them into slaves, but released them after becoming frightened by news reports, ...

FOWLER, N.Y. (CBSNewYork/AP)-- An investigator on Thursday said an upstate couple used a dog to lure two Amish sisters from their family farm stand with a plan to turn them into slaves. Nicole Vaisey ...

Meet the hottest new women’s fiction subgenre: the Amish romance novel. Seeing as “the church has traditionally viewed fiction as distracting and deceitful,” the Wall Street Journal reports, Amish ...

Federal prosecutors have charged an additional four women with involvement in beard-cutting attacks on fellow Amish in Ohio.The charges also add new allegations that suspects hid or tried to destroy ...

WEBVTT TONIGHT WITH AN UPDATE TO THE DEVELOPING STORY WE BROKE LAST NIGHT. A NORTH COUNTRY AMBER ALERT. GOOD EVENING I'M GEORGE MALLET. STEPHANIE IS OFF. NEW YORK STATE POLICE ISSUED AN AMBER ALERT ...