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10/7 Urbandale Morning Report: Bad Candy, Friendly Robbers and a Zombie Burger

Directing Urbandale readers to relevant or entertaining news on metro sites this morning.

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  • See DesMoinesRegister.com for a story about last night's Urbandale-Johnston post-season game. Urbandale won 23-15. Later today, check out our photo gallery of the game.

 

  • Tiffany De Masters has more details on the Urbandale man who set his house on fire Saturday. 

 

  • In keeping with Urbandale Patch's zombie theme this week, check out Datebook Diner W.E. Moranville's review of the "monstrously popular" Zombie Burger restaurant in Des Moines' East Village.

 

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  • Save yourself the embarrassment in the kid world by NOT handing out one of the five worst treats on Beggars' Night, according to this story that KCCI.com links to.

 

  • A West Des Moines dentist is offering a sweet -- er, "unsweet" -- deal to little beggars, according to KCCI.com.  

 

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  • In the "that's just not right" category, WHOtv.com posts about the robbers who benevolently agreed to leave the homeowner $20.

 

  • Watch out for Des Moines' new traffic camera's. The city made $53,000 in September alone on them, KCCI reports.

 

  • O.Kay Henderson of Radio Iowa has an interesting story about a U of I professor study that says that up to a quarter of Americans who file personal bankruptcy would not have had to do so if the credit limits of the 1970s were still in place.

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