South Dakota has the largest Hutterite population in the United States, with more than 7,000 people spread out across more than 60 colonies in the eastern part of the state. Hutterites migrated to ...

In Montana, students across the state — from Hutterite colonies to Native American reservations — are learning about Hanukkah in school: playing dreidel, lighting candles, and reading a picture book ...

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Tremane Wood has spent more than two decades in prison after a 2002 motel-room robbery that ended in Ronnie Wipf’s death Oklahoma Department of Corrections via AP Tremane Wood was sentenced to death ...

McALESTER, Okla. (AP) — An Oklahoma inmate whose life was spared by Gov. Kevin Stitt just moments before he was to receive a lethal injection on Thursday was later found unresponsive inside his cell ...

Caught on a security camera, fiery flames emanating from exploding lithium-ion batteries were the first indication of trouble for the owner and manager of Hiebert Cabinets and Woodwork in Bow Island, ...

Several hymns were temporarily banned last year in the Diocese of Jefferson City, Missouri, after being found “to be insufficient in sound doctrine,” with the action raising questions about what music ...

“Amazing Grace” as it appears in Ginny Hawker’s family heirloom songbook, Lloyd’s Primitive Baptist Hymns. You can see stains in the margins, left by the tobacco-covered hands of her aunt Annie Maud ...

Traditionally, agriculture conjures images of workers tilling fields and picking crops. But as climate change has led to longer dry seasons, strained water supplies and reduced yields, farmers have ...

A paradox of staid everyday life within an insular religious community, such as the one so beautifully captured in Kate Riley’s debut novel, “Ruth” (Riverhead, 256 pages, $29), is that zealousness is ...

Beekeeper Eddie Molloy said a bear tore into five of his beehives, leaving a bite mark in one frame, in search of delicious larvae with a side of honey. “Just a lot of carnage of the bees,” Molloy, 51 ...

For at least 500 years, Babylonian children were tasked with memorizing a hymn that celebrated the city of Babylon, its citizenry, and chief deity Marduk. There was much to praise: the city was ...