Top 9 of Iowa: Superintendent Roulette - Quit, Stay or Be Fired, Will ISU Students Get Expelled for Racist Tweets? Girls' State Basketball Finals

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. The Waukee Public Library celebrated the building’s 10th birthday with a celebrity auction hosted by WHO-TV's chief meteorologist Ed Wilson.

8. Iowa State students took a controversial loss by the Cyclones to powerhouse Kansas Jawhawks in Ames last week a little too far. Two students Tweeted racist and threatening comments to the Kansas squad. If it's a violation of student code they could face sanctions up to and including expulsion.

7. Urbandale boys' basketball earned its first trip to the Iowa high school basketball tournament since 2009.

6. Iowa City police charged a Tiffin woman with two felony charges for allegedly stealing two puppies from Petland over the last six months.

5. While it's not a surprise that Johnston High School is home to bright students, the school now proudly boasts six National Merit Scholarship finalists.

4. West Des Moines Dowling Catholic fell to Southeast Polk in the girls' Class 5A state basketball finals.

3. , were named a grand prize winner in the Julie Foudy Sports Leadership Academy "Choose to Matter" contest. The Overbergs entered a service project into the mother/daughter category of the contest, one in which Elizabeth raised $721 for the Ankeny Miracle Park project.

2. A special election over casino gambling is high stakes in Linn County where a group that supports the casino and one that opposes combined to spend more than $2 million in six weeks.

1. A bizarre 48-hour sequence of events included the Cedar Falls Superintendent again. Answers are in short supply, though.

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