But now, as social media infiltrates the tight-knit community, many younger Plain women, including Amish women, are seemingly using their Instagram accounts to promote their products.

Amish women arrive at federal court in Cleveland during the three-week trial of 16 defendants in a beard-cutting hate crime trial last month. Marvin Fong/Plain Dealer file photo.

The strange saga of abducted Amish girls and their alleged captors’ ‘master-slave’ relationship August 19, 2014 The home in Hermon, N.Y., shared by Stephen Howells II and Nicole F. Vaisey.

Federal prosecutors have charged an additional four women with involvement in beard-cutting attacks on fellow Amish in Ohio. Skip to content NOWCAST WLWT News at 6am ...

The leader of a breakaway Amish group, whose followers cut off the beards of his enemies, took home married women to "cleanse them of the devil in acts of sexual intimacy", according to the FBI.

16 Amish men and women convicted of hate crimes for hair- and beard-cutting attacks Published: Sep. 20, 2012, 11:38 p.m. Subscribers can gift articles to anyone ...

The Amish believe the Bible instructs women to let their hair grow long and for men to grow beards and stop shaving once they marry. Skip to Article. Set weather. Back To Main Menu Close.

Although vintage quilts remain among the most recognized manifestations of Amish culture, they represent the historical, localized trends of only a finite period from a living and changing culture.

Federal prosecutors have expanded a hate crimes case against followers of Ohio Amish sect leader Samuel Mullet Sr., charging four more women with participating in a beard and hair-cutting attack ...