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Plenty of Horsepower: Amish Man Accused of Drag Racing in Buggy

You might call this alleged street racer a rebel without a car. Police in Ashland, Ohio, say they have charged an Amish man with driving left of center after he clipped a motorist during a horse-and-buggy race. Law enforcement officials say Jacob Raber was the man behind the reins when a horse carriage struck a car on...

Searchers Find Body of 4th Amish Child Swept Away in Ky. Creek

Authorities in Kentucky today found the body of the fourth Amish child who was swept away when the horse-drawn buggy in which she was riding overturned in a rain-swollen creek Thursday, drowning her three young cousins in southwestern Kentucky. The midmorning discovery came shortly after Graves County Sheriff Dewayne...

First Amish Man Charged With Homicide Hangs Himself

An excommunicated Pennsylvania Amish man who brutally killed and disemboweled his wife has committed suicide. Edward Gingerich's death occurred nearly two decades after he became the first Amish man to ever be charged with homicide. "He was found in a barn, on the first floor," Crawford County Chief Deputy Coroner Scott...

Video Essay: Winter Dawns in Amish Country

A snow storm blanket's Ohio's Amish country in Geauga County. Put more Good in your life! Follow AOL's Good News on Twitter and Facebook.

Amish Teen Leads Police on Horse-And-Buggy Chase

(July 21) -- Kids these days. Give them the keys to the horse and carriage, and they go wild. Levi Detweiler, a 17-year-old Amish kid from Leon, N.Y., allegedly ran a stop sign in his horse and buggy, leading authorities on a mile-long low-speed chase. Detweiler took a sharp turn too fast and turned the buggy over,...

Background on amish

The Amish ( ; Pennsylvania Dutch: Amisch, German: Amische), sometimes referred to as Amish Mennonites, are a group of Christian church fellowships that form a subgroup of the Mennonite churches.

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