Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. In this photo taken Wednesday, July 8, 2009, abandoned buildings line Main Steet in Picher, Okla. (AP Photo/Sue Ogrocki) A ...

Every once in a while, an assignment hits me on an emotional level. And I'm not talking about the obvious ones, like photographing the scene of a tornado or fire. I'm talking about the unexpected ...

PICHER, Okla. — Despite being about 1,500 miles away, theater audiences in New York City are learning about the history and residents of a former mining town in Northeast Oklahoma through a musical ...

A once-thriving Oklahoma town is now known as one of America's "most toxic ghost towns." The town structures that weren't demolished, destroyed by fire or a tornado, or collapsed are abandoned and ...