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    December 6, 2011

    Yet Another Young Amish Man Killed in Horse-and-Buggy Accident

    Image viaAn Amish horse-and-buggy accident​Driving-while-Amish has proved, once again, a hazardous activity in Missouri. A 19-year-old Amish kid died on Friday after his horse-and-buggy was rear-ended by an SUV north of Seymour a few days earlier. This comes two years after a 29-year-old Amish man ... More >>

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    July 26, 2011

    Missouri's Amish Population Skyrocketing

    Trotting along: Missouri's Amish population now numbers in the five digits.​Missouri's general population may not be growing as fast as other states, but one small segment of the Show-Me State is bucking the trend.Missouri's Amish community currently has the fourth-highest growth rate in the natio ... More >>

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    October 22, 2010

    Amish Elders Plead Guilty to Failing to Report Sex Abuse in Ozark Community

    crimesceneinvestigations.blogspot.comJohn Schwartz was sentenced to 20 years for sexually abusing his daughters.​Four Amish men in southern Missouri pleaded guilty this week to endangering the welfare of a child.The men, all elders within the Amish community, reportedly knew about the sexual abuse ... More >>

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    September 3, 2010

    Chester Mast: Amish Tried to Heal Accused Child Molester Before Turning Him In

    Chester Mast​Former Riverfront Times' reporter Malcolm Gay is out with new revelations about Chester Mast, the Amish man in northeastern Missouri accused of sexually assaulting at least six girls between the ages of 5 and 15. As Gay reported for the New York Times yesterday, elders within the tigh ... More >>

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    August 24, 2010

    Chester Mast: Amish Man Charged with Rape to Face Trial in December

    Chester Mast​His name is Chester. He's an accused molester. And, oh yes, he's Amish, too. Chester Mast, 26, of Curryville in northeast Missouri, is set to stand trial December 15 on charges that he raped a girl younger than 17 and masturbated in front of another younger than 15. Mast also faces se ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 29, 2010

    New and Old Worlds Collide: Was Man Texting and Driving When He Struck Amish Buggy?

    ​That's the speculation in mid-Missouri where a man was charged yesterday with second-degree involuntary manslaughter slamming into an Amish buggy in January.According to reports, 43-year-old Jeffrey Fleming of Staunton, Illinois, was traveling down Highway 63 in rural Randolph County this past Ja ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 20, 2010

    Part One: Get Your Amish Buggy Off the @#&*ing Road

    Warning: A horse and buggy is about to end your life.​It's that time again. Time for Tuesday Tussle in which Daily RFT writers debate a recent news item or great (or little) importance. This week we explore the case of John V. Rohrer, a 91-year-old man who died last week after being run over by a ... More >>

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    July 16, 2010

    91-Year-Old Man Dies After Being Run Over by Amish Horse-Drawn Cart

    Image via​John V. Rohrer, 91, died in a Decatur, Ill. hospital Wednesday after being run over by a horse-drawn cart driven by an Amish man last month.Rohrer was stepping out of a restaurant June 28 in the town of Arthur in central Illinois when he was hit and knocked over by a horse, and the cart ... More >>

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    January 14, 2010

    Young Amish Man Driving Horse-and-Buggy on State Highway Rear-Ended in Fatal Crash

    http://www.flickr.com/photos/passer-by/ / CC BY-SA 2.0​A very sad story in north-central Missouri of two worlds colliding (literally and figuratively): A 29-year-old Amish man who was steering his horse-and-buggy south on Highway 63 near Moberly, Missouri on Tuesday was rear-ended by a vehicle cru ... More >>

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