GEORGETOWN, Pa. – Scores of horse-drawn buggies from across the Pennsylvania countryside clip-clopped past the home of the schoolhouse gunman to a wind-swept hilltop graveyard Thursday as the Amish ...

It’s probably our coldest morning so far this fall. The mercury on the thermometer dipped down to almost 20 degrees. How thankful we are for a cozy house to live in. Some are not so fortunate. We ...

No matter how we try, it's impossible to avoid it altogether. Death is not naturally a pleasant part of life, and we avoid it at all costs. Still, it happens. This last week we've been face to face ...

As we sang that first song of heaven, I heard someone whisper, "There's an eagle!" I glanced up into the brilliant blue sky and caught my breath — it was real. Overhead, a large bald eagle circled ...

(RNS) An Amish girl and her two Mennonite cousins, all from Michigan, stop by the West Nickel Mines school to pray at the scene of a 2006 shooting that left five girls dead. RNS file photo by Robert ...

A crash that killed six people about 20 minutes outside of Bay City included members of the Amish community headed to a funeral, officials say. Thirteen people – 10 in a van and three in a pickup ...

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