DES MOINES, IA (IRN) – The Iowa Supreme Court on Friday tossed out a murder conviction and ordered a new trial for a man accused of the gruesome 2017 stabbing death of his girlfriend. The state’s high court ordered a new trial for Gregory Michael Davis, 30, after finding his trial attorney’s failure to object to confusing jury instructions cost Davis a fair trial. Davis was convicted in 2018 of first-degree murder in the September 2017 death of 29-year-old Carrie Davis, whose body was found rolled in a blanket inside a trailer in Marion. She had been stabbed 26 times.

IOWA (IRN) – The Iowa Department of Public Health reported a record high 5,065 more COVID-19 cases and 19 more COVID-19 related deaths as hospitalizations remain at record highs on Friday.

DES MOINES, IA (IRN) – Ankeny has done what no other football team could for nearly a decade: beat Dowling at the UNI-Dome. In double overtime, Ankeny’s Arland Bruce IV picked off Dowling QB Jaxon Smolik in the endzone to win it for the Hawks, 31-24. The win breaks Dowling’s seven state championship winning streak.

MINNEAPOLIS, MN (IRN) – Tyler Goodson rushed for a career-high 142 yards and two touchdowns on 20 carries, and Iowa’s defense clamped down hard on Minnesota for a 35-7 drubbing on Friday night that gave the Hawkeyes possession of the Floyd of Rosedale trophy for the sixth season.