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Amish Mafia is an American reality television [1] series that debuted on December 12, 2012, on the Discovery Channel. The series follows "Lebanon Levi", along with three of his assistants, who are purported to be a "mafia" in an Amish community. Although portrayed by Discovery Channel as documentary "reality" television, the authenticity of the ...
James, Jr. (paternal) Criminal charge. Murder of five, attempted murder and theft. Penalty. 6 consecutive life sentences. Bruce Alfred Johnston Sr. (March 27, 1939 – August 8, 2002) was the leader of one of the most notorious gangs in the history of Pennsylvania, U.S. The gang started in the 1960s and was rounded up in 1978 after his son ...
West Nickel Mines School shooting. On October 2, 2006, a shooting occurred at the West Nickel Mines School, an Amish one-room schoolhouse in the Old Order Amish community of Nickel Mines, a village in Bart Township, Pennsylvania. [1][2][3] Gunman Charles Carl Roberts IV took hostages and shot ten girls (aged 6–13), killing six (five in the ...
September 5, 2024 at 11:57 AM. A young Pennsylvania woman who survived a 2006 mass shooting at her Amish school has died nearly 18 years after she was left permanently brain-damaged in the rampage ...
Anti-Amish sentiment is discrimination, persecution, hostility or prejudice directed against Amish people or the Amish religion. Hate crimes directed against Amish people are known as "Claping". [1] Amish people were subjected to violent persecution in Europe during the 18th and 19th centuries, causing many to leave Europe as refugees and ...
An explosion ripped through a hotel in Pennsylvania’s Amish country, leaving one person dead, police said. The blast occurred around 2:30 a.m. Dec. 18 at the Bird-in-Hand Family Inn in Lancaster ...
The Lancaster Amish affiliation is the largest affiliation among the Old Order Amish and as such a subgroup of Amish. Its origin and largest settlement is Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, United States. The settlement in Lancaster County, founded in 1760 near Churchtown [1] is the oldest Amish settlement that is still in existence.
The Bufalino crime family, [2] also known as the Pittston crime family, [3] the Scranton Wilkes-Barre crime family, [3] the Northeastern Pennsylvania crime family, [4] the Northeastern Pennsylvania Mafia, [5] [6] or the Scranton Mafia, [7] was an Italian-American Mafia crime family active in Northeastern Pennsylvania, primarily in the cities of Scranton, Wilkes-Barre, and Pittston.