Picher News

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Picher, Oklahoma, is located in Ottawa County in the northeast corner of the state near the Kansas-Missouri border.

More than $35 million in taxpayers' stimulus money will go to the Tar Creek area where mining decimated part of northeast Oklahoma and parts of Missouri and Kansas.

If you can provide a good home for either of the following pets, please call Tulsa Humane Society at 495-3647, or visit the adoption center at 6232 E. 60th St.

Police are trying to narrow potential motives in the slaying of a Tulsa man who was found dead in an apartment Sunday night.

If the trend continues, the abandoned mining town of Picher might have a future in film.

PICHER, Okla. - The Oklahoma Supreme Court has agreed to review an Ottawa County court decision that shot down a lawsuit filed by more than 100 Picher-Cardin residents alleging problems with the recent buyout.

The largest monetary gift ever received by Northeastern Oklahoma A&M College came from the most unlikely source: the dying town of Picher.

The residents of Picher have known for some time that their town was coming to an end, but for some it did not seem real until Monday.

The dying town of Picher is donating $578,000 to Northeastern Oklahoma A&M. In exchange the college will preserve Picher's records for public research.

A Four State college gets a big legacy from a town that has now ceased to exist.

A HUGE Christmas Blessing and the best for 2010 to our case manager Leanne Jaerschky and the home support team that helped look after my husband Rick Rennie this past year.

State health officials are confirming one new death related to swine flu in Oklahoma.

The town of Picher is almost completely deserted after a government buyout program and a deadly tornado.

When it comes to federal spending, $135,000 isn't all that much money. But that doesn't mean it should be wasted on something that's not needed.

PICHER, Okla. - A lawsuit filed by more than 100 residents of the Picher-Cardin area against the panel that was in charge of the Tar Creek buyout apparently is headed for appeal after a recent rejection in Ottawa County District Court.

The vacant houses used recently in the making of a hard-core horror film in Picher burned to the ground Sunday night, authorities said Monday.

Some officials with the housing authority in the dying town of Picher are looking for ways to use more than $135,000 in federal stimulus money.

Three vacant homes in Picher were destroyed or heavily damaged by fire late Sunday night and authorities say the fires were probably intentionally set.

The town of Picher is dying but its housing authority is sitting on $135,000 in federal stimulus money.