Samuel Mullet and followers found guilty of federal hate crimes. Sept. 20, 2012— -- The leader of an Amish splinter sect and his followers were found guilty today of violating federal hate crime ...

CLEVELAND -- Emotional testimony in the trial of an Amish bishop and 15 others charged in a series of hair and beard-cutting attacks on other Amish. On the stand was unindicted co-conspirator Nancy ...

Federal prosecutors argued today that Samuel Mullet, the Jefferson County bishop who coordinated a series of beard cuttings against members of his radical Amish sect, should get life imprisonment for ...

PEQUEA TOWNSHIP, Pa. — An Amish bishop was charged this week by Pennsylvania authorities with failing to report sexual abuse allegedly committed by one of his congregants. Levi Esh Sr., 63, of Pequea ...

CLEVELAND (AP) — Each one of the hair- and-beard-cutting attacks against Amish men and women last fall was connected to one person, an Amish bishop who thought he was above the law and free to hand ...

CLEVELAND An Amish bishop accused of orchestrating hair-cutting attacks in Ohio forced women at his settlement to have sex with him so he could turn them into better wives, one of the women testified ...

CLEVELAND (AP) — The sheriff in a county with one of the nation’s biggest Amish settlements testified Wednesday that residents were upset and screaming after a community leader had his beard and hair ...

Jury deliberations started Thursday in the trial of an Amish leader and 15 followers who are accused of forcibly cutting the hair and beards of religious rivals. Samuel J. Mullet Sr., a 66-year-old ...

Iowa Writers 'Collaborative. Linking Iowa readers and writers. Buggyland will never be Buggyland again. The New Order Amish bishop has lifted the ban on bicycles and a wave of motion has washed over ...