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 ...

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 (CNN)-- Wearing powder blue pants and a plaid fedora, 84-year-old Orval "Hoppy" Ray arrived fashionably late to a celebration in Picher, Oklahoma, a vacated mining town at the center ...

On the first Saturday of each December, a small miracle occurs in the extreme northeastern Oklahoma town of Picher. Around 8:00 a.m., the first vehicles start arriving in the parking lot of an ...

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 ...

The people of Picher, Okla., are leaving. In early 2006, a federal study determined that areas of Picher and the surrounding communities of Cardin and Hockerville in Oklahoma were at risk of caving in ...

PICHER, Okla. — The first house to be relocated from Picher is on a trailer and ready for its trip to neighboring Quapaw. But muddy conditions and the home’s height have stalled the move for a few ...

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 ...

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 ...