FLAGSTAFF, Ariz. (AP) — The trial for a U.S. Air Force airman charged in the kidnapping and death of a Sunday school teacher is set to begin next year.

FLAGSTAFF, Ariz. (AP) — Authorities have identified a woman's body found off a forest road in northern Arizona as a New Mexico resident reported missing over a month ago.

Authorities are investigating whether a body found in northern Arizona is that of a northwestern New Mexico woman reported missing over a month ago.

READING, Pa. (AP) — The owner of an award-winning organic dairy in Pennsylvania that abruptly closed its doors last fall is accused of milking investors to the tune of nearly $60...

COLUMBIA, Mo. (AP) — A judge has ruled that a Missouri midwife and her clinic can continue delivering the babies of its mostly Mennonite and Amish patients.

SILVER SPRINGS, N.Y. (AP) — Health officials say they've confirmed five cases of measles in a Mennonite community in western New York.

The state Health Department says Thursday the cases of...

FARMINGTON, Mo. (AP) — A Mennonite minister in Missouri says the community has forgiven a 16-year-old who slammed into a horse-drawn carriage and killed a 7-year-old.

FARMINGTON, Mo. (AP) — A pickup truck slammed into a horse-drawn carriage in Missouri on Thursday, killing an 8-year-old Mennonite boy and seriously injuring four members of his family, including...

PHILADELPHIA (AP) — For centuries, hundreds of Amish and Mennonite farmers in Manheim Township, one of Lancaster County's prime agricultural heartlands, have tilled the soil, tended to livestock,...

GOSHEN, Ind. (AP) — Trees have dropped cash in an Indiana county.

Elkhart County distributed thousands of dollars Tuesday to church groups and community organizations for collecting tons of leaves. Officials wanted to provide an incentive to reduce leaf burning.

NEWTON, Kan. (AP) — Two Mennonite churches in Kansas say they could provide sanctuary to immigrants who are living unlawfully in the country.

The Shalom Mennonite Church in Newton has voted as a congregation to help such immigrants, and church members are working on transforming part of the basement into living quarters.

First Mennonite Church of Christian in Moundridge also says it is willing to offer sanctuary.

BALTIMORE (AP) — A Mennonite missionary from Virginia who lived in Haiti for more than a decade has been sentenced to 23 years in prison for child sexual abuse in the impoverished Caribbean nation, officials said.

James Arbaugh, 40, of the small Virginia town of Stuarts Draft is the latest American missionary to receive a hefty sentence for taking advantage of Haiti's extensive poverty and anemic rule of law to sexually abuse vulnerable youngsters.

MEXICO CITY (AP) — Mexican authorities have slapped a 10.3 million peso ($540,364) fine on a Mennonite community for clearing tropical vegetation that was home to a protected olive-throated parakeet.

The Attorney General for Environmental Protection said Monday that members of the community removed plants including endangered chit palm and jobillo trees from 3,251 acres (1,316 hectares) in Quintana Roo state, on the Yucatan Peninsula.

WICHITA, Kan. (AP) — Two churches in Kansas say they'll protect immigrants facing deportation even if it means arrest.

HARRISONBURG, Va. (AP) — A half-century ago, Earl Martin and Pat Hostetter Martin became acquainted while getting their exercise during the Vietnam War, where they were service workers for Mennonite Central Committee.

"We were assigned to the same area in the Vietnam Christian Committee," said Pat Martin, 75. "Every day, we rode bicycles together, and that's how we got to know each other."

GOSHEN, Ind. (AP) — A Mennonite college in northern Indiana is planning to install more than 900 electricity-generating solar panels on its campus.

DENVER (AP) — The Latest on a Mennonite investigator jailed in Colorado after refusing to testify (all times local):

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A Colorado appeals court says a defense investigator who has been jailed indefinitely for refusing to testify in a death penalty case cannot testify as a witness of the court rather than by prosecutors' subpoena.

DENVER (AP) — Colorado appeals court judges rejected a request to release a defense investigator as she appeals her jail sentence for refusing to testify for prosecutors in a death penalty case.

The decision released Thursday was based on a technicality, and the panel plans to hear arguments about the case on Friday.

ASUNCION, Paraguay (AP) — A small rebel group in Paraguay has released two Mennonite men that it kidnapped four months ago in the country's north, authorities said Monday.

Mexican citizen Franz Hiebert, 32, and Paraguayan Bernhard Blatz, 22, were released in a forest in the state of Concepcion, about 250 miles (400 kilometers) north of the Paraguayan capital, said Col. Victor Urdapilleta, spokesman for Paraguay's anti-terror force.

SHERIDAN, Mich. (AP) — The Mennonite community is mourning the deaths of three children following a collision between their horse-drawn buggy and a pickup truck in central Michigan.

Family and friends attended a visitation Wednesday in Sheridan for Cameron Martin, 11; Kayla Martin, 9; and Kendra Martin, 7. Funeral services are scheduled for Friday at Vickeryville Old Order Mennonite Church, the Daily News reported .

FREEMAN, S.D. (AP) — Students at a Mennonite school in southeast South Dakota are selling items from their garden to raise money for a Puerto Rican sister school severely damaged by Hurricane Maria.

MEXICO CITY (AP) — Three men have been found shot to death in the northern Mexico state of Chihuahua, and prosecutors say they appear to be members of the state's Mennonite community.

The state prosecutors' office said Sunday the bodies were found in the cab of a pickup truck with New Mexico plates in an area known as Campo Menonita 35. The men had been shot multiple times.

While the bodies have not been identified, the office said their appearance suggested they were Mennonites.

MOUNDRIDGE, Kan. (AP) — A Kansas pastor has written a book that focuses on what rural churches can and must do to stay alive.

The Hutchinson News reports that Brad Roth is a pastor at West Zion Mennonite Church in Moundridge. He says his experiences in rural settings and his career in ministry led him to write his first book, "God's Country: Faith, Hope and the Future of the Rural Church."

COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — A woman trying to avoid being deported to Mexico and separated from her U.S.-citizen children has moved into an Ohio church offering her sanctuary in a symbolic gesture.

LANCASTER, Pa. (AP) — From the road, you'd never guess what's inside Habecker Mennonite Church in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, on a Sunday morning.

ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) — The Mennonite Church USA voted Thursday to sell its holdings in companies that profit from the Israeli occupation of Palestinian territories, the latest American Christian group to do so.

The decision was made at a national Mennonite convention in Orlando, Florida. Although the economic impact is expected to be minimal, such votes are closely watched as a measure of views on Israel and the Palestinians from within the U.S., the Jewish state's closest and most important ally.

PORCUPINE, S.D. (AP) — Authorities say the frozen body of a missing woman was found near her mother's grave on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation.

An initial investigation found 49-year-old Donna Scout died from exposure on the property of Lakota Mennonite Church in Porcupine Tuesday. Scout was last seen the last week of January.

RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — Amid the weekend tumult over President Donald Trump's executive order restricting immigration from seven Muslim-majority countries, Walter Hansen's two-man sign shop in Waynesboro was besieged.

As protesters massed and lawyers descended on airports across the country offering to help anyone ensnared in the confusion over what the ban meant, Hansen was bombarded with requests for a simple design that originated with a Mennonite church in Harrisonburg.

LANCASTER, Pa. (AP) — Shelley Shellenberger sits in a chair by the window in his Landis Homes apartment, wrapping strands of yarn around the pegs of a Knifty Knitter loom.

After he has wrapped enough yarn and used a hook to pull the colorful strands together and back up over the pegs many times, a multicolored ski cap will emerge from the round loom.