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 ...

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.

PICHER, Okla. — The recent search for Lauria Bible and Ashley Freeman turned up empty once again. Bible and Freeman were kidnapped out of Welch and killed in December 1999. Crews have been ...

Search teams will be in Picher, Oklahoma on Tuesday to resume the search for two girls from Welch who went missing more than 20 years ago. Lauria Bible and Ashley Freeman went missing in 1999 and ...

Many buildings in Picher, Okla., were targeted for demolition even before a devastating tornado hit the former lead-mining town. Now the government has decided not to rebuild. Picher pharmacy ...

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 ...

Located in the northeast corner of Oklahoma, the town of Picher was once home to the world’s richest lead and zinc mining field. But since the area was declared a Superfund site in 1981 ...

OTTAWA COUNTY – The Tulsa Medical Examiner’s office is in the abandoned community of Picher on Saturday after human bones were found Friday evening. Angela Berg, a forensic anthropologist ...

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 ...

PICHER, Okla. – A businessman who refused to leave the Oklahoma ghost town of Picher has died. The Thomas Funeral Home confirmed Gary Linderman's death. According to an obituary on its website ...