Rooney, who is from Picher, is a founding member of Rascal Flatts. His induction will take place in Miami, Oklahoma.

Rascal Flatts guitarist and Picher native will be inducted July 26 for his musical achievements and lasting Oklahoma ties ...

Americans are filing for Social Security at record rates. Here's why. Japanese startup loses connection to lunar lander moments before moon touchdown Moment girl, 11, narrowly saves baby sister ...

Nov. 18—EaglePicher Technologies has announced a Thursday groundbreaking for its new energetics operation in Joplin. In September, the company acquired a 55.63-acre site at 8406 E. 26th St. in ...

The town Picher, Okla. is seen nestled among huge lead-laced piles of rock, Saturday, April 6, 2008. The town's population has dwindled to a fraction of its former size as people gradually move ...

Picher, Oklahoma was incorporated in 1918 after ore was discovered. All that remains in the ghost town are empty buildings and piles of toxic waste.

MIAMI, Okla. (KSNF/KODE) – An older sister of Cheryl Taylor, a Picher, Oklahoma, girl missing for 45 years, is providing Texas authorities with a DNA sample in hopes it is a match to the ...

MIAMI, Okla. (KSNF/KODE) — Oklahoma and Texas authorities are reaching out to former Picher residents in hopes someone has information on the family of a missing Picher, Oklahoma, teen. Sheryl ...

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.

Mining ended in the 1970s, and in 1983, the Environmental Protection Agency named the 40 square miles around Picher a Superfund site. Beginning in 2005, the state of Oklahoma offered buyouts of ...