The visits are nice. Occasional visits. Reuben Kauffman will park across from his boyhood home and change into the simple black and white clothes of the Amish that are stashed for him in his father’s ...

Daniel Borntreger’s home looks like hundreds of other Wisconsin farmhouses: two-story A-frame, porch, clothes on the line. But his home could cost him thousands of dollars in fines. Borntreger, an ...

The Amish don't have telephones, so Erick Woods drove 45 minutes to give the Borntregers the news: They won a reprieve Friday from an order to vacate their Wisconsin home after refusing to comply with ...

When life feels too complicated, I can regain a sense of balance by driving to farmland where Amish families intentionally live quietly, simply and conservatively. Add “mysteriously,” if you’ve had ...

The outcry over a Wisconsin Amish family ordered by a court to leave their home is fueling a legislative push for a religious exemption from building codes requiring smoke alarms and other modern ...

MADISON — University of Wisconsin-Madison researchers are working to expand newborn genetic screening for Wisconsin's Amish and Old Order Mennonite communities. Researchers hope to pinpoint the unique ...

Religious waiver forms that will be distributed this week to all 72 counties in Wisconsin are expected to resolve a dispute over building codes between Eau Claire County and its Amish community. An ...

Levi Fisher’s ancestors farmed the fertile land of eastern Pennsylvania for more than 275 years while living a quiet, traditional Amish lifestyle. But squeezed in recent years by encroaching suburbia, ...

A 24-year-old North Dakota man who grew up on a Wisconsin dairy farm in an Amish community says he’s found the acceptance he’s been searching for after leaving his family. KVRR-TV reports that John ...

ST. LOUIS – ST. LOUIS (AP) — A 26-year-old Amish man has been charged with sexually assaulting five underage girls in Missouri and Wisconsin, including a cousin of his, authorities said Tuesday.