Joe Walsh, a former Republican member of Congress, said Tuesday he is becoming a Democrat, marking the end of his five-year ...

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The season came to an end for the Tewksbury High girls lacrosse team on Sunday. The Redmen entered the Division 3 state ...

But the population of Picher, Oklahoma, slowly dwindled over the last several decades to now empty. The town Picher, Okla. is seen nestled among huge lead-laced piles of rock, Saturday ...

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. — 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 ...

PICHER — Around 2,500 people turned out for the eighth annual Picher Christmas parade on Saturday, bringing life, joy and fun to the Ottawa County ghost town. “It’s one of the biggest ...

Robert L. Picher of Winooski died peacefully on May 10, 2024, in Venice, FL, at the age of 99. He was born in Winooski on July 30, 1924, the son of John and Agnes (Tougas) Picher. He was educated ...

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 ...

Decades of lead and zinc mining in the area where Oklahoma, Kansas, and Missouri meet brought prosperity and created boom towns like Picher in Ottawa County in far northeast Oklahoma. In its ...