Firefighter Charged In Amish School Fire

" June 13, 2007 Pennsylvania - An 18-year-old firefighter was charged with setting a weekend blaze that damaged a one-room Amish schoolhouse - a fire he claimed to have discovered by driving past in the dead of night. Dustin Shane Gerth confessed to the crime, according to...

Bush School Summit

"Apparently though when it comes to school security in America the children were left behind in the interests of the War on Terror..... The highlight of the summit seems to have been a rebuke of Bush administration policy by the manager of the Center for the Prevention of...

Amish school in Pa. to be razed Thursday (AP)

" NICKEL MINES, Pa. - The Amish school where a gunman shot 10 girls last week, killing five of them, is expected to be demolished Thursday, a fire department official said. "Tomorrow morning the school is going to be torn down," Mike Hart, a spokesman for the Bart Fire...

Dozens of Amish mourn schoolhouse killer (AP)

" GEORGETOWN, Pa. - Dozens of Amish neighbors came out Saturday to mourn the quiet milkman who killed five of their young girls and wounded five more in a brief, unfathomable rampage. Charles Carl Roberts IV, 32, was buried in his wife's family plot behind a small Methodist...

Amish children knew their killer - Times Online

" Tony Allen-Mills, Paradise Milkman was a popular figure on his rounds THERE were no children to greet Charles Roberts the last time he collected milk from the Fisher family farm near the Pennsylvania town of Paradise. It was in the early hours of last Monday and the excited...

Real Christian Values

"I have blogged here before about the Anabaptists and their link to Anarchism. After the recent school shootings of Amish girls in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, that old Anabaptist community came together to practice a vital and real Christianity."

Funerals for Amish school victims - BBC News

" The Amish community appealed for privacy after the killings Funerals for four of the five Amish girls killed in a schoolroom massacre on Monday have taken place in the US state of Pennsylvania. Hundreds of mourners gathered as the four, aged seven to 12, were laid to rest...

Amish schoolgirl hoped to spare others (AP)

" GEORGETOWN, Pa. - Under a cold, steady drizzle, the Amish drove in horse and buggy to a farmland cemetery Friday to bury the last of five girls shot to death by an intruder as new details emerged of heroism inside their schoolhouse. Two of the survivors of the shooting...

Amish gather to pray at funerals for slain girls - CTV.ca

" Updated Fri. Oct. 6 2006 12:07 AM ET CTV.ca News Staff Amish families are asking for privacy as they gather to bury four of the five young victims of a horrific Pennsylvania schoolhouse shooting. A procession of buggies and carriages carried mourners to a hilltop cemetery...