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 ...

Former Picher, Oklahoma, resident Ray Moore embraces artist Sabrina Staires at the opening of her exhibition 'Echoes.' For all the reasons one thinks of a small town in America — a small, blue-collar ...

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 ...

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, Oklahoma was once a thriving mining community — now it's a ghost town. Following is a transcript of the video. This is America’s most toxic town. The only thing left is dangerous levels of ...

Picher is often cited as the most toxic town in the United States. Yet every year, its identity as a town is eroding. A May 10, 2008 EF4 tornado wrecked more than 100 homes and killed six in its ...

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, 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 ...

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 ...

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 ...