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 ...

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 ...

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. — It is easy to tell you’re arriving in Picher, Oklahoma. The mounds of leftover mining waste, called chat, is still there. The town is not. There is a small memorial with details of the ...

A town that’s been all but erased comes back to life every December when the Picher-Cardin All-School Reunion Committee hosts a Christmas Parade. It’s held the first Saturday of December each year, ...

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 ...