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 ...

PICHER, Okla. — A team from the Office of Surface Mining, Reclamation and Enforcement lent its expertise this week to the search for the remains of Lauria Bible and Ashley Freeman. The four experts ...

Authorities say a former museum building burned to the ground early Tuesday in Ottawa County. Officials believe the Picher Mining Field Museum was destroyed by an arsonist. Former residents of the old ...

Picher Reunion Park is built above the Netta East Mine, a depleted zinc mine robbed of earthen pillars needed to support its massive ceiling 150 feet below the surface, said Ed Keheley, a field expert ...

Workers with the Department of the Interior were back in Picher Wednesday, using special equipment to help search for two girls missing from Welch for 20 years. The U.S. Department of the Interior’s ...

They could pass for mourners at a funeral. Subscribe to read this story ad-free Get unlimited access to ad-free articles and exclusive content. They line up along the main drag in front of empty cafes ...

The money — approximately $535,000 — is being held in an Oklahoma City bank. All that is needed to give that money to the former residents of Picher and Cardin is a judge’s signature. On Friday, steps ...

PICHER -- A Picher city park is likely to collapse into a massive mining cavern, according to documents obtained by the Tulsa World. State mining officials have been asked to assess the sinkhole ...

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 ...

Workers with the Department of the Interior were back in Picher Wednesday, using special equipment to help search for two girls missing from Welch for 20 years. Investigators are focused on four mine ...