Seasonal food stands offer fresh treats like sweet corn, strawberries, and pumpkins. The town is located on the eastern edge of Lancaster County, making it less crowded with tourists. This location ...

Pennsylvania’s Amish population is the largest it’s been, prompting some Amish families in the Lancaster area to move farther west, researchers said. “It is growing fast,” said Kyle Kopko, an Amish ...

Mitchell is a professor of medicine and vice chair for research in the Division of Endocrinology, Diabetes, and Nutrition at the University of Maryland School of Medicine. During the recent White ...

PHILADELPHIA – Braxton Mitchell has worked with the Amish for 30 years as co-director of the Amish Research Clinic in Lancaster, Pennsylvania. He can say for a fact that autism exists in the community ...

The Amish reject many modern technologies. A 2010 study found autism exists in their communities, but at lower rates, with cultural factors at play. President Donald Trump and Health and Human ...

An Amish woman who told authorities she was testing her faith when she threw her 4-year-old son into an Ohio lake was charged Wednesday with two counts of aggravated murder in the boy's death.

If you thought the horse and buggy was the end of the line for Amish transportation, think again. Across many parts of Amish country, including Iowa, Ohio, and Pennsylvania, electric bicycles are ...

The permanent closing of a North Myrtle Beach Amish store has neighbors and customers scratching their heads. Visitors planning to drop by The Country Living Amish Store will be greeted by locked ...

The Amish are a curiosity in the modern world. Whereas most people use if not rely on technology for their daily lives, the Amish keep their use of technology to a minimum and do just fine without it.

Ohio and Pennsylvania are home to 179,000 Amish, all of whom are expected to end their formal studies after the eighth grade so they can return to their families and begin full-time contributions ...

In the world of agriculture, a primary goal is maintaining genetic varieties necessary for evolution, be it crops or livestock. An applied practice in achieving this objective is hybridization. In ...

New York’s Amish community has become an unlikely minority on the frontlines of a battle pitting Constitutional rights against potentially draconian public health laws. On March 3, the New York’s ...