After a briefing, the team toured three of four mine shafts in the Picher area that investigators ... a special agent of Oklahoma State Bureau of Investigation. The experts from the federal ...

Even getting into Picher, Oklahoma, is not easy ... meant the groundwater was no longer being pumped out of the mine shafts and away from the hazardous substances. Eventually, the groundwater ...

Jim Inhofe of Oklahoma. After a briefing Tuesday, the team toured three of four mine shafts in the Picher area that investigators think could be the most likely locations where the girls ...

Undercut with mine shafts and buried under bleak, gray mountains of lead waste, this Oklahoma town is in the ... 20,000 around World War II. Already, Picher is getting down to a hard core of ...

PICHER, Okla. — The Tulsa Police Department dive team Tuesday lowered a camera down an old Acme Mine shaft in Picher in the latest of ongoing efforts to find the remains of two Oklahoma girls ...

A mine shaft lies just on the south side of her driveway, 15 feet from her shotgun house in Cardin, a spit away from Picher. When the tremors come, it sounds like a dynamite blast and shakes windows.

PICHER — An underwater drone and high-tech camera will be lowered into four mine shafts that are within ... multiple agencies across northeastern Oklahoma and southeastern Kansas, the Cherokee ...

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.

“I first visited Picher in 2008, shortly after the tornado ... And another. It belched from a mine shaft and gushed out of an old cave-in. It splashed down ditches and gullies and into ...

Lead and zinc or are still produced in quantity in northeastern Oklahoma. Here is a yard at the Eagle-Picher Mining and Smelting Co. Central Mill in the center of Picher. (Original photo has no ...