CLEVELAND (AP) – Sentences were reduced Monday for the leader of a breakaway Amish group and seven of his imprisoned followers who chopped off the hair and beards of Amish people with whom they ...

Federal prosecutors say the leader of a breakaway Amish group in Ohio convicted in hair- and beard-cutting attacks is pushing to get his sentence overturned using arguments already rejected in court.

CLEVELAND (AP) – The leader of a breakaway Amish group in Ohio convicted in hair- and beard-cutting attacks is asking a federal judge to overturn his 2012 convictions. Samuel Mullet Sr. is arguing in ...

The repercussions of a 2011 Amish beard-cutting spree in rural Ohio has Amish everywhere concerned about how outsiders view the pacifist sect, an expert on Amish culture said Thursday. In the case's ...

The trial of Mullet and 15 co-defendants is expected to be a two-week trial with widespread interest due to the reclusive religious lifestyle of the Amish and the type of charges. The defendants are ...

CLEVELAND -- In the stern, self-regulating world of the Amish, those who act out time and again by wearing the wrong clothing, going to movies or otherwise flouting the church's doctrine can find ...

c. 2012 Religion News Service CLEVELAND (RNS) The law of God will collide with the law of man this week in a crowded federal courtroom in Cleveland, where 16 Amish defendants -- 10 men with full ...

It was 11 at night on Oct. 4, 2011, when five Amish men knocked on the door of Myron Miller, a 46-year old bishop in an Amish community in Carroll County, Ohio. When he opened the door, the men ...

CLEVELAND — The ringleader in hair- and beard-cutting attacks on fellow Amish in Ohio was sentenced Friday to 15 years in prison and 15 family members received sentences of one year to seven years.

It's been nearly three and a half years since word began to seep out of Jefferson County, Ohio that some members of a break-away, rogue Amish sect were being arrested for hair- and beard-cutting ...

CLEVELAND — The law of God will collide with the law of man this week in a crowded federal courtroom in Cleveland, where 16 Amish defendants — 10 men with full beards, six women in white bonnets — ...