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  1. Your Voice, Your Pics

    Sun, 13 May 2012

    to you and tons of comment like main street in Plano Illinois. A cub scout from trust Alabama. Sunset in Pennsylvania's Amish country. A painter capturing upstate New York's four colors. And the brattle bookshop outdoors in the heart of Boston

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    Plano Illinois. A cub scout from trust -- Alabama. Sunset in Pennsylvania's Amish country. A painter capturing upstate New York's four colors. And the brattle bookshop outdoors in the heart of Boston. Kevin Murphy snapped

Latest Amish News

  1. Ohio Amish Hair Attack Suspect Loses Bond Appeal

    Wed, 23 May 2012

    and hair-cutting attacks against fellow Amish in eastern Ohio has lost an appeal for orchestrating attacks last fall on other Amish in a church feud. Cutting a man's beard hair is considered highly offensive to the Amish . Prosecutors opposed Mullet's release

  2. The Elevator Endorsement, Obama as Amish President, Prairie Fires of Debt, Pelois and Pedicabs (PM Note)

    Tue, 15 May 2012

    Obama, America's First Amish President - That's the Newsweek-esque headline from Yahoo!'s Olivier Knox after watching Obama on "The View" and writing

  3. Vote now: Can George W. Bush's tepid Romney endorsement finally unseat Daniels?

    Tue, 15 May 2012

    Interactive: In dueling commencement speeches, Romney and Obama use same words for different messages • How White House gay marriage declarations are affecting other Democratic candidates • Obama, America's first Amish president?

  4. Newsweek puts rejected Obama ‘first gay president' covers online

    Tue, 15 May 2012

    president' • How White House gay marriage declarations are affecting other Democratic candidates • Obama, America's first Amish president? Want more of our best political stories? Visit The Ticket or connect with us on Facebook , follow us on Twitter

  5. Obama, America's first Amish president?

    Tue, 15 May 2012

    things on "this—what's it called, DVR." It's almost enough for a national newsweekly to dub him "America's First Amish President." Obama's wide-ranging interview with ABC's "The View," recorded in New York on Monday, included a pop

  6. How Will Gay Marriage Play on the Ground?

    Mon, 14 May 2012

    southern Ohio, the Appalachian region that shares a border with Kentucky and is home to tiny villages dotted with barns and Amish -owned shops. Life really feels a little slower in this place where, to so many, God and family matter more than anything

News

  1. Amish Have Fewer Allergies Due to 'Farm Effect'

    Mon, 7 May 2012

    Amish seem to get benefit from drinking unpasteurized close to large animals. Getty Images The Amish who live and work with animals on farms in environmental and not genetic, even though the Amish are descendants of Swiss immigrants to the

  2. Great American Bites: Indy's St. Elmo serves steak fit for a champion

    Thu, 16 Feb 2012

    Angus Young. Reason to visit: Spicy shrimp cocktail, steaks, Amish chicken, chops, King Crab mac & cheese The food: Most classic products as much as possible, most notably Indiana's Millers Amish Chickens, very popular here, as well as local duck, farmed

  3. Hasidic Hell: Married at 17, Girl Runs From Her Orthodox Roots

    Wed, 8 Feb 2012

    speaking out is tough," she told ABCNews.com. She wonders what makes her path and culture "any different from the Amish or fundamental Christians or Mormons, who closet themselves away." Every aspect of Feldman was tightly controlled for fear

  4. Amish Girl Buggy Shooting ‘Freak Accident’

    Tue, 20 Dec 2011

    The shooting death of a 15-year-old Amish girl in Ohio, originally labeled a homicide Sheriff Timothy Zimmerly told ABC News an Amish man has come forward to say he was preparing no charges have been filed against the Amish hunter, who voluntarily notified authorities

  5. CRUNCH TIME: Seven Amish Men Charged with Hate Crimes for Beard Cutting + Scientists Bait Great Whites With Bikini-Clad Girls

    Wed, 23 Nov 2011

    Here’s what’s coming up tonight on World News: - Seven Amish Men Charged with Hate Crimes for Beard Cutting - Hazing Proved in Florida A&M Drum Major’s Death - Gingrich’s Immigration Gamble - Scientists Bait Great Whites With Bikini-Clad Girls

  6. Seven Amish Men Charged with Hate Crimes for Beard Cutting

    Wed, 23 Nov 2011

    Seven Amish men have been charged with hate crimes for cutting the beards and hair of Amish men in a different religious sect. The men Sr., allegedly forcibly restrained multiple Amish men and cut their beards and hair with scissors

  7. Wild Things Next Door: Dangers of Exotic Pets

    Thu, 20 Oct 2011

    lax or non-existent federal and state laws, the trade in tigers and all kinds of exotic animals is booming, all legal. In Amish country in Ohio, a legal exotic animal auction was caught on hidden camera. On sale that day were baby chimps, monkeys and

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  1. Allergies, Asthma Lower in Amish Population

    Mon, 7 May 2012

    In health news today a new study shows Amish children raised on farms in northern Indiana are mostly immune in Central Europe. But just. What is it about growing up on Amish farms in Indiana that seems to prevent allergies remains unclear

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    In health news today a new study shows Amish children raised on farms in northern Indiana are mostly immune to seasonal allergies researchers have known about the apartment back to low allergy and asthma rates found among kids raised on farms in Central Europe. But just. What is it about growing up on Amish farms in Indiana that seems to prevent allergies -- remains unclear. The study appears in the journal of allergy and clinical immunology.
  2. Your Voice, Your Pics

    Sun, 13 May 2012

    to you and tons of comment like main street in Plano Illinois. A cub scout from trust Alabama. Sunset in Pennsylvania's Amish country. A painter capturing upstate New York's four colors. And the brattle bookshop outdoors in the heart of Boston

    Amish found at 0:15

    Plano Illinois. A cub scout from trust -- Alabama. Sunset in Pennsylvania's Amish country. A painter capturing upstate New York's four colors. And the brattle bookshop outdoors in the heart of Boston. Kevin Murphy snapped
  3. FBI Accuses Amish of Beard Cutting

    Wed, 23 Nov 2011

    us ABC's Pierre Thomas explains. The Amish are known for being a peaceful community shying away from modern technology. But the Amish have been suffering through a violent crime today the Justice Department charged seven Amish men of religiously motivated hate crimes

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    The Amish are known for being a peaceful community shying away from modern technology. But -- the Amish have been suffering through a violent crime spree the weapon of choice. Hair clippers today the Justice Department charged seven Amish men of religiously motivated hate crimes. Accusing them of attacking others in the sect and setting off -- here. It may not sound horrific to you but to the Amish it's a serious offense.
    For them it is really a -- public symbol of their Amish faith and identity very shameful to have. -- cut the attacks allegedly stemmed from a dispute over arms theology under federal law
  4. Splinter Group Arrested for Attacks on Amish

    Tue, 18 Oct 2011

    74 year old man his beard For the close Amish communities and rural Ohio piety is prize really a prime public symbol. Of their Amish faith and identity very shameful to have least four incidents since September 6 Amish up to age 74 have allegedly been held down

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    For the close -- Amish communities and rural Ohio piety is prize. And now a broad group has allegedly broken all the rules by at least stripping
    For them it is really a prime public symbol. Of their Amish faith and identity very shameful to have.
    cut in at least four incidents since September 6 Amish up to age 74 have allegedly been held down. As -- long hair and beards were violently hacked away. -- Investigators say Sam mullet and a strange member of the Amish community in berg holds Ohio is the ringleader behind the attacks. Three of the five men arrested are his side Bob commerce
  5. Man Dies in Amish Buggy Crash

    Sat, 19 Nov 2011

    It happened the same day four Amish in court for refusing to place caution emblems on their bodies because that I'm going to Wear that hat for Kinney. Launch and says the Amish have a right to be on the roads to everyone else to slow down we

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    It happened the same day four Amish -- in court for refusing to place caution emblems on their bodies because they say it's against their religion. Here finally was
    hat for Kinney. -- Launch and says the Amish have a right to be on the roads -- to everyone else to slow down we know -- behavior -- what they
  6. Amish Girl Fatally Shot in Buggy

    Tue, 20 Dec 2011

    with here in the nearby town of mount hope says some of the Amish children who usually the when the horse and buggy and run errands without their parents. And one man who drives people in the Amish and mennonite communities to stores is changing how he's doing

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    here in the nearby town of mount hope says some of the Amish children who usually the when the horse and buggy and run errands themselves. Aren't going anywhere now without their parents. And one man who drives people in the Amish and mennonite communities to stores is changing how he's doing things to. Take more precaution and uninsured but I have young people
  7. Amish Teens Make Choice of Lives

    Fri, 4 Sep 2009

    days a week to clean houses. I'm not Amish friend gives her a lift in the town just blue jeans and a secret life under her Amish dress. You don't operation your heart lean his decision to stay or leave the Amish changes moment to moment. What kind of

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    leaves before dawn five days a week to clean houses. I'm not Amish friend gives her a lift in the town just twenty minute car ride would be two hours by bugging him. Her work is hard. But not nearly the struggle of being caught between two worlds wearing her blue jeans and a secret life under her Amish dress. You don't -- operation your heart and a.
    Like the flickering light lean his decision to stay or leave the Amish changes moment to moment. What kind of things do scary though about it about this decision.
    by your family and faith for all eternity. Which is precisely why Amish teenagers on the verge of adulthood -- such a monumental decisions. You think that it's harder kind of change in this time and was when you're going or. Order a lot lot more temptation. Though as we mentioned it's against Amish tradition to have their pictures taken to elders a couple married forty years agreed to a rare silhouetted conversation about being Amish today. The basic values are.
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