Top 9 of Iowa: Bon Jovi Rocks, Teenage Shooting, TV Anchor Fires Back, Home Gun Sales

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

9. Jon Bon Jovi played to throngs of people across Iowa on Friday. At a stop on the University of Iowa campus in Iowa City on Friday, the rocker raised the temperature on a chilly afternoon dedicated to getting out the vote for President Obama. Check out pictures from Bon Jovi's visit.

8. CarMax presents itself as the no-haggle alternative to the back-and-forth negotiating so common in the car-buying world. The car dealer doesn't negotiate, saying they set their best price to begin with. CarMax just opened its first Iowa location in Urbandale.

7. A Marion-raised TV anchor who now works in La Crosse, WI, responded to a letter claiming she wasn't "a suitable example" for the community because of her weight. Jennifer Livingston responded in an on-air segment that has gone viral and got people talking about bullying.

6. Ames residents are weighing in on an attempt by the city to ban home gun sales businesses. The community currently allows home gun sales but forbids other home businesses, such as fitness instruction and dance classes. Neighbors of a man with a home gun business petitioned to add this to the list of prohibited home occupations

5. West Des Moines Patch editor Beth Dalbey offers us a look at Cooper’s on 5th, a charming 44-seat restaurant that offers upscale comfort food in Historic Valley Junction. The restaurant is coming up on its one-year anniversary.

4. A Goodwill Industries employee in Waukee exhibited something less than goodwill when he decided he wanted something that wasn't for sale. Christopher Lee of Des Moines allegedly took an Apple iPod from a fellow employee's purse.  He was charged with fourth-degree theft.

3. Autumn is in full swing in Cedar Falls. Patch editor Alison Gowans captured the beauty of the fall season in photos while walking along bike trails and in Hartman Reserve. Then readers added colorful images of their own.

2. Police are still investigating a shooting involving young teenagers in Ankeny. A 13-year-old Berwick boy was in town visiting friends. Authorities found him in the parents' bedroom with a single gunshot to the head and was taken to Mercy Medical Center by ambulance. A 14-year-old girl and her 13-year-old brother were in the home at the time and are being treated as witnesses.

1. Federal authorities filed paperwork to seize three properties tied to a marijuana raid in Johnston that netted more than 500 pot plants in various stages of growth.

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