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Tuesday, February 19, 2013  Police say the boy was taken to St. Elizabeth Hospital in Utica for treatment of injuries that aren't life-threatening.

Wednesday, November 21, 2012  Authorities say a 9-month-old Amish girl has died from injuries suffered when the buggy she was riding in was hit by a vehicle on a northern New York road.

Thursday, November 08, 2012  State police say two people have been injured and a horse is dead after a car collided with an Amish man's buggy on a rural western New York road.

Thursday, June 28, 2012  A state senator is hosting two vaccination clinics for horses to prevent a mosquito-borne brain infection that killed 12 horses and a little girl last year in upstate New York.

Tuesday, March 20, 2012  A 42-year-old man faces up to 24 years in prison for the crash that killed six Amish farmers and injured eight others as they traveled on an upstate New York road last summer.

Tuesday, February 28, 2012  Authorities say several Amish adults and children have been taken to a hospital after their horse-drawn buggy was involved in a collision with a FedEx truck on a northern New York road.

Friday, February 24, 2012  A western New York man has pleaded guilty to vehicular homicide and driving under the influence of drugs in a crash that killed six Amish farmers and injured eight others last July.

Friday, October 14, 2011  A motorist arrested after a wreck that killed six Amish farmers in rural upstate New York has pleaded not guilty to aggravated vehicular homicide and manslaughter charges.

Monday, October 03, 2011  Update: Grand jury indictment against driver in deadly Amish crash that killed 6 people released. Aggravated homicide and 6 counts of manslaughter among the charges.

Tuesday, August 30, 2011  The man police say caused a crash that killed six Amish people last month is back in jail after a psychiatric evaluation.

Wednesday, July 27, 2011  A sixth person has been killed following last week's crash in Yates County, according to  Yates County Sheriff Ron Spike .

Thursday, July 21, 2011  The case against the man accused of driving drunk and causing a crash that killed five people in Yates County will now head to a Grand Jury.

Wednesday, July 20, 2011  The man charged after a wreck that killed five Amish farmers in rural Yates County had spent time in prison for stealing a Rochester police car and leading cops on a chase.

Wednesday, July 20, 2011  Sheriff's deputies in southwestern New York say a 17-year-old Amish boy took off in his buggy when they tried to pull him over for having an open container of beer, leading to a brief chase that ended with the youth in custody on a host of charges.

Wednesday, July 20, 2011  A Yates County man is accused of killing five Amish people in a horrific drunk driving crash, and now police have released the names of those who were killed.