Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Before bringing a lawsuit against the Upland Unified School District for violating their civil rights and the state’s education ...

There’s a lot going on when it comes to maintaining the heads on a cotton picker. The picking unit has dozens of spinning parts working at high speeds, and they all depend on tight tolerances to keep ...

ROBSTOWN, Texas — Robstown, Texas is making headlines nationally for its long-time mascot, the "Cotton Picker," as people question not only how it came to be, but how it has been allowed to remain the ...

ROBSTOWN, Texas — Robstown, Texas is making headlines nationally for its long-time mascot, the "Cotton Picker," as people question not only how it came to be, but how it has been allowed to remain the ...

Deere’s CP770 cotton picker, which can harvest fields of cotton at about 5 mph, beat out 68 other nominations and had the most of the 93,000 votes cast in this year’s Coolest Thing Made in Iowa ...

John Daniel Rust was born on Sept. 6, 1892, near Necessity, Texas. His father, Benjamin Daniel Rust, was a Civil War veteran, a farmer and a school teacher, while his mother, Susan Minerva Burnett, ...

What is the coolest thing that's made in Iowa? Well, according to thousands of votes over several weeks, it turns out it's the CP770 cotton picker manufactured by John Deere in Ankeny. The Iowa ...