Amish school typically runs from 8 a.m. to 3 p.m. every day, five days a week from early September to the middle of May. "They follow the state minimum number of days," Yoder said.

On Nov. 18, school officials notified Amish parents that buses would pick their children up the following morning. Parents like Sarah Swartz refused, and the highly emotional cornfield chase ensued.

A gunman burst into a one-room schoolhouse in a Pennsylvania Amish community this morning, lined at least 11 girls up against a blackboard and shot them, killing at least three before taking his ...

Amish School: No Precedent for Shocking Tragedy Melissa Block talks with Professor Mark Dewalt of Winthrop University in South Carolina. Dewalt, who has studied one-room schoolhouses and Amish ...

Nickel Mines, Pa. – Ten days after the Amish schoolhouse shootings, a demolition crew using heavy equipment tore down the bloodstained building Thursday and obliterated nearly all traces of the ...

Members of the community are raising a new Amish schoolhouse a few hundred yards from the spot in Nickel Mines where a gunman shot five girls to death in October. The new building will have just ...

NICKEL MINES, Pa.-A milk-truck driver carrying two guns and a grudge stormed a one-room Amish schoolhouse Monday, sent the boys and adults outside, barricaded the doors with two-by-fours, and then ...

On October 2nd, 2006 a young Amish school teacher had a grave decision to make. She could either stay and try and protect the children in her classroom from a gunman who had just entered, or run ...

Amish community members work at the scene of the one-room schoolhouse shootings on Oct. 2, 2006, that left five wounded and five dead in Nickel Mines, near Lancaster, Pa., on Oct. 9, 2006.

Amish Schoolhouse Shooting 10 Years Later: How Family of the Victims Helped the Gunman's Mother Heal. Roberts' son, Charlie, then 32, shot 10 schoolgirls, five of whom died, before killing himself.