CLEVELAND, OH (WOIO) - A rogue Amish group convicted in a series of beard cutting attacks was sentenced to prison on Friday. Amish beard bandit leader Sam Mullet was…

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CLEVELAND, OH (WOIO) - A jury has convicted a rogue Amish group in a series of violent hair-cutting attacks on other members of the Amish community.…

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(WOIO) - Prosecutors in the trial for the so-called Amish beard bandits continue to call witnesses. The trial for more than a dozen members of…

via CNN The leader of an Amish sect in Ohio, who was indicted on federal charges for allegedly shaving the beards and cutting the hair of community members, must pay for his own legal defense after making millions off an oil-and-gas deal, court documents show. Previously ruled indigent, Samuel Mullet Sr. received about $2 million […]

via BBC News Police in Ohio have arrested four men suspected of assaulting a 74-year-old member of the Amish community. He is one of several Amish people in the state who have had their hair and beards forcibly removed in apparent efforts to humiliate them. Jefferson County Sheriff Fred Abdallah said two more people were […]

(WOIO) – A 77-year-old Amish man accused of defrauding his fellow Amish of millions of dollars. Monroe Beachy of Sugarcreek, Ohio was indicted today on mail fraud.  He ran his own investment company, A & M Investments. Beachy is accused of operating an investment scheme that defrauded nearly 2,700 people in 29 states of more than $16 […]

According to court documents, this sect follows a strict code of conduct, called Ordnung, which “regulates everything from hairstyle and dress to education and transportation.” They believe that displays of “loud” colors should be avoided, along with the use of “worldly symbols.” Swartzentruber Amish believe such symbols indicate the user no longer trusts fully in […]

It's a long-way from the snow-covered hills and old-fashioned ways of Amish country to the earthquake heartbreak of Haiti, where so many victims need someplace to live. Dozens of Haitian families should soon be getting four walls around them and a roof over their heads.