PICHER, Okla. -- Thirty years and hundreds of millions of dollars since work began to clean up this former lead and zinc mining boomtown, progress is still being measured in inches or feet. That gauge ...

PICHER, Okla. — The search for two Welch girls continued Friday as crews worked on another digging operation in Picher. Lauria Bible and Ashley Freeman were kidnapped and killed in December 1999 and ...

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, Oklahoma -- Other than giant chat piles left over from its mining days, there isn’t much left in Picher, Oklahoma. The town is mostly abandoned. Severe environmental pollution prompted the EPA ...

Picher, Okla. — A track hoe sidled up to the modest yellow brick church, paused for a moment to position itself, then drove its teeth into the roof with brutal efficiency. Shingles tumbled into the ...

Picher, Oklahoma isn’t a ghost town because people drifted away. It’s what happens when mining money dries up and the contamination bill comes due. We’re revisiting what’s left the streets, the ruins, ...

The search is expected to continue Tuesday for the remains of two girls from Welch who were kidnapped and killed more than 20 years ago. Crews plan to return to Picher, the site of previous searches, ...

PICHER, Okla. — Bobo, a 3,800-pound concrete gorilla, is coming home. For years, the mascot for the Picher-Cardin Gorillas stood outside of the high school, but with the demise of the school as part ...

PICHER, OK -- Sunday marks the one-year anniversary of the deadly tornado in Picher. The EF-4 twister killed six people and devastated what little was left of the Ottawa County community. Picher was ...

PICHER, Oklahoma -- Other than giant chat piles left over from its mining days, there isn't much left in Picher, Oklahoma. The town is mostly abandoned. Severe environmental pollution prompted the EPA ...