Top 9 of Iowa: High School Football Playoffs, Rockwell Collins Job Cuts, Neighbors Sue Hy-Vee

Why nine? Because the Patch community includes nine sites in Iowa: Ames, Ankeny, Cedar Falls, Iowa City, Johnston, Marion, Urbandale, Waukee and West Des Moines.

9. An Urbandale couple whose property is adjacent to the new Hy-Vee Store -- the grocery chain's newest and largest store -- says the shiny new super-sized supermarket has ruined their home. They are suing Hy-Vee for damages.

8. People in Marion, and other parts of Eastern Iowa could feel the pain as due to planned defense spending cuts and worse than expected earnings. Mitt Romney's camp was quick to place the blame on President Barack Obama.

7. Keeping on a political note, GOP nominee for president Romney and Obama are in a race to the finish, which has Iowa caught up in the flurry. Romney was in Ames and Cedar Rapids last week making promises to put the nation's economy back on track if he is elected.

6. Always a touchy subject, the Waukee schools are the subject of boundary change talk. The recommendations will leave some parents thrilled and others fuming. 

5. An attorney representing InFocus Partners said the troubled West Des Moines payroll outsourcing company has paid its outstanding 2012 tax liability in its entirety and is making progress on satisfying its client businesses’ payroll taxes for prior years.

4. In Iowa City, several local officials are making a strong push for voters to flip the ballot and say "yes" to a $47 million bond for a new jail. But, they face plenty of opposition.

3. The top-ranked Ankeny Hawks proved they could very well be a force to be reckoned with during the 2012 Iowa high school football playoff season.

2. Election fever is reaching some of Johnston's youngest voters. While the students at Timber Ridge Elementary can't cast ballots in the Nov. 6 election, they are taking part in the 2012 Iowa Student Mock Election.

1. Taylor Morris, a Cedar Falls native who lost parts of all four limbs when he stepped on an improvised explosive device, was the guest of honor at the "Unstoppable Event." The theme of the night sought to highlight the progress he has made, from lying in a hospital bed in the days after the accident to recently walking on prosthetic legs in a 5K in New York City.

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