Iowa high school football scores for Week 8

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October 19, 2024

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Iowa high school football scores for Week 8

(This story was updated to add new information)

It’s Week 8 of the Iowa high school football season. Check out our list of IHSAA scores from Friday night’s action.

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Scores are listed in alphabetical order by winning team

IHSAA scores from Week 8 of Iowa high school football season

Friday’s games:

AC/GC 40, Southwest Valley 7
ADM 35, Indianola 31
AHSTW 29, Shenandoah 7
Akron-Westfield 28, South O’Brien 17
Alburnett 49, East Marshall 19
Algona 28, Webster City 21
Anamosa 41, Northeast 0
Ankeny 13, Valley 10, OT
Ankeny Centennial 28, Waukee Northwest 10
Ar-We-Va 35, Boyer Valley 6
Audubon 50, Baxter 26
BGM 69, Moravia 19
Beckman 30, Cascade 0
Bedford 63, Southeast Warren 8
Belle Plaine 30, Iowa Valley 24
Bellevue 22, North Linn 14
Benton 56, South Tama County 26
Bettendorf 48, Prairie 47
Bishop Garrigan 62, Harris-Lake Park 0
CAM 52, Stanton-Essex 6
Carroll 20, Sioux Center 7
Cedar Falls 28, Cedar Rapids Kennedy 7
Central City 74, Midland 39
Central City 74, Midland 39
Chariton 48, Clarke 0
Cherokee 49, Sheldon 6
Clarinda 47, Centerville 15
Clayton Ridge 49, North Cedar 0
Clear Creek Amana 28, Cedar Rapids Xavier 24
Colo-Nesco 36, Coon Rapids-Bayard 22
Council Bluffs St. Albert 28, Westwood 27
Council Bluffs Lincoln 35, S.C North 28
Danville 31, Columbus 24
Decorah 10, Western Dubuque 7
Dike-New Hartford 57, Denver 13
Don Bosco 88, Waterloo Christian 0
Dowling Catholic 35, Southeast Polk 34
Durant 13, West Branch 6
Dubuque Wahlert 63, DeWitt Central 6
Earlham 21, South Central Calhoun 19
Easton Valley 66, Lone Tree 31
Edgewood-Colesburg 49, Kee 6
Exira-EHK 60, Griswold 30
Fort Dodge 35, Sioux City West 0
Fremont-Mills 62, Sidney 24
Garner-Hayfield-Ventura 28, Estherville-Lincoln Central 6
Gehlen 47, HMS 7
Gilbert 30, Newton 7
Gladbrook-Reinbeck 57, GMG 6
Glenwood 53, Jefferson 21
Grundy Center 35, Hudson 0
GTRA 66, North Iowa 20
Hampton-Dumont 21, Charles City 0
Harlan 41, Atlantic 16
Highland 43, Wapello 0
Hinton 14, West Sioux 7
Humboldt 23, Clear Lake 13
IKM-Manning 42, Logan-Magnolia 28
Independence 13, West Delaware 7
Iowa City Regina 20, Wilton 8
Iowa City West 49, Pleasant Valley 35
Janesville 68, Tripoli 12
Johnston 56, Urbandale 14
Kuemper 34, Southeast Valley 12
Le Mars 49, Denison-Schleswig 13
Lenox 60, Lamoni 28
Linn-Mar 28, Iowa City High 27
Lisbon 49, Van Buren County 0
Lynnville-Sully 45, Central Decatur 0
MFL MarMac 35, Central Springs 0
MMCRU 28, Alta-Aurelia 0
MOC-Floyd Valley 37, BHRV 0
Madrid 34, Wayne 8
Manson Northwest Webster 20, Emmetsburg 14, OT
Maquoketa Valley 42, Starmont 6
Marshalltown 28, Des Moines Lincoln 14
Mediapolis 48, Central Lee 14
Mid-Prairie 42, Albia 7
Montezuma 71, Twin Cedars 0
Mt Ayr 54, Martensdale-St Marys 14
Mount Vernon 42, Washington 21
Nevada 49, Creston 28
Newell-Fonda 42, Siouxland Christian 16
North Butler 26, AGWSR 7
North Fayette Valley 34, Crestwood 7
North Mahaska 12, North Tama 8
North Polk 48, Boone 7
Northwood-Kensett 56, Dunkerton 40
Norwalk 21, Lewis Central 7
OABCIG 24, Lawton-Bronson 14
Ogden 44, Nodaway Valley 14
Okoboji 41, Forest City 25
Pella 28, Bondurant-Farrar 21
Pella Christian 35, Colfax-Mingo 0
Pocahontas 40, Eagle Grove 28
Riceville 54, Turkey Valley 6
Riverside 44, Panorama 6
Roland-Story 55, Saydel 8
Sergeant Bluff-Luton 42, Sioux City Heelan 23
Sigourney-Keota 79, Eddyville-Blakesburg-Fremont 6
Sioux Central 42, East Sac County 26
Sioux City East 56, Ames 34
South Hardin 39, Waterloo Columbus 6
South Winneshiek 54, BCLUW 15
Solon 61, Fairfield 19
Spencer 46, Storm Lake 6
Spirit Lake 42, Clarion-Goldfield-Dows 0
Springville 52, Calamus-Wheatland 14
St Ansgar 53, Lake Mills 12
St Edmond 26, Glidden-Ralston 12
St Mary’s 67, West Harrison/Whiting Co-op 0
Sumner-Fredericksburg 47, Aplington-Parkersburg 13
Treynor 42, Missouri Valley 0
Tri-Center 42, Kingsley-Pierson 7
Underwood 56, Red Oak 12
Van Meter 49, I-35 7
Wapsie Valley 14, Nashua-Plainfield 13
West Hancock 50, Newman 0
West Liberty 49, Camanche 19
West Lyon 41, Central Lyon 7
Western Christian 41, Unity Christian 7
Williamsburg 49, Grinnell 12
Woodbine 76, East Mills 6
Woodbury Central 49, West Monona 0

Thursday’s games:

Ballard 56, Des Moines North 8
Clarksville 58, Meskwaki Settlement 0
Davenport North 30, Muscatine 22
Jefferson 35, Davenport Central 0

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Iowa House OKs ‘3 strikes’ bill with 20-year prison terms. What to know

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March 5, 2026

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Iowa House OKs ‘3 strikes’ bill with 20-year prison terms. What to know

Iowans who commit multiple serious crimes would face a mandatory 20-year prison sentence under a “three strikes” bill passed by House lawmakers.
Republicans said the bill would keep Iowans safe and “prioritize victims and public safety over criminals.”
A nonpartisan state agency says the bill would disproportionately impact Black Iowans and could require the state to spend millions to build a new prison.

Repeat offenders convicted of multiple serious crimes would receive a mandatory 20-year prison sentence under a bill passed by House lawmakers.

House lawmakers debated for more than an hour about high costs, lack of prison space and the bill’s impact on Black Iowans before voting 68-23 to pass House File 2542, sending it to the Iowa Senate.

Seven Democrats, including Minority Leader Brian Meyer, D-Des Moines, joined Republicans in voting in favor of the bill.

“It will put public safety first,” said the bill’s floor manager, Rep. Steven Holt, R-Denison. “It will ensure that the debt to victims and society is paid. It will prioritize victims and public safety over criminals. It will establish real and effective deterrence that is nonexistent in our current system. It will reduce chaos and violence in our society.”

Here’s what to know about the bill.

What would the House Republican three strikes bill do?

Iowans who accumulate three strikes would face a mandatory 20-year prison sentence, with no parole, under the bill.

That would replace Iowa’s current law that says habitual offenders must serve a minimum three-year prison sentence before they are eligible for parole.

All felonies, as well as aggravated misdemeanors involving sexual abuse, domestic abuse, assault and organized retail theft would be considered level-one offenses that are worth one full strike.

Other aggravated misdemeanors, as well as serious misdemeanors involving assault, domestic abuse and criminal mischief would be considered level-two offenses worth half a strike each.

Lawmakers amended the bill to remove theft, harassment and possession of a controlled substance from the crimes that would count toward a person’s strikes.

And the amendment specifies that the bill would only apply to convictions that occur beginning July 1, 2026.

If someone is arrested and convicted of multiple offenses, only the most serious charge would count towards the defendant’s strikes.

Convictions would not count toward someone’s total if more than 20 years passes between a prior conviction and their current conviction.

Rep. Ross Wilburn, D-Ames, tried unsuccessfully to amend the bill to say that only a violent crime would qualify as someone’s third strike, but Republicans rejected the amendment.

“The bill still scores murder, felony embezzlement and felony theft the same, even though they are very different crimes,” Wilburn said. “One point is one point and three gets you 20 years with no ability for parole or judicial discretion.”

Holt said the legislation leaves room for judicial and prosecutorial discretion.

“There are deferred sentences, there are plea bargains,” he said. “There is plenty of opportunity for grace and judicial discretion in the legislation that we are proposing.”

Bill could cost millions, require Iowa to build a new prison, agency says

A fiscal analysis of the bill by the nonpartisan Legislative Services Agency said it could cost Iowa nearly $165 million more per year by 2031 based on the cost of housing inmates for longer prison stays.

FY 2027: $33 million
FY 2028: $66 million
FY 2029: $99 million
FY 2030: $132 million
FY 2031: $164.9 million

The agency said if the bill had been in effect between fiscal year 2020 and fiscal year 2025, there would have been 5,373 people who qualified for the 20-year mandatory minimum sentence.

“An increase in the prison population due to increased (length of stay) will require the DOC to build additional prison(s),” the agency states. “The size, security and other features that a future prison may require cannot be determined, but costs would be significant.”

The analysis noted that South Dakota appropriated $650 million last fall to build a 1,500-bed prison.

As of March 1, the Iowa Department of Corrections’ website describes the state’s prison system as being overcrowded by 25%, with 8,705 inmates compared to a capacity of 6,990.

The Office of the State Public Defender could see a projected cost increase of $1.6 million due to an increased number of trials resulting from the legislation.

But the agency’s estimates come with a caveat — the Department of Corrections did not respond to its requests for data.

“The LSA has not received a response to multiple requests for information from the DOC,” the note states. “Without additional information, the LSA cannot estimate the total fiscal impact of the bill.”

Holt called the fiscal note “an embarrassment to the Department of Corrections” and “an agenda masquerading as math.”

“It is clear, in my judgment, that because they did not like the legislation they went all out and extreme to create a fiscal note that cannot be taken seriously in its assumptions,” he said. “It assumes that nothing will change, that there will be no deterrent factor and that the numbers will continue as usual.”

Black Iowans would be disproportionately impacted by the law

The Legislative Services Agency analysis says the bill “may disproportionately impact Black individuals if trends remain constant.”

Of the 29,438 people convicted in fiscal year 2025 of felonies and aggravated misdemeanors that constitute a level one offense under the bill, the agency said about 70% were White, 22% were Black and 9% were other races.

Iowa’s overall population is 83% White, 4% Black and 13% other races, the agency said.

It’s not clear how the bill’s impact would change to account for the House amendment removing some crimes from counting towards the three strikes.

“Expanding three-strike laws will intensify disparities — and that’s what this statement shows — by mandating longer sentences, limiting judicial discretion,” Wilburn said. “We already have a habitual offender statute. We already have one in place. We have a 10-year low in recidivism in our correctional system.”

Rep. Angel Ramirez, D-Cedar Rapids, said California’s three strikes law, passed in the 1990s, worsened racial disparities, and “Iowa is about to repeat the same mistake.”

“I urge every member here, do not pass legislation that our own minority impact statement tells us will deepen inequality in our state,” Ramirez said.

Holt said minority communities in Iowa are impacted by crime and that the legislation “will make citizens of all colors safer.”

And he said the minority impact statement “tells only one side of the story, doesn’t it? It tells the criminal’s story. What about the victim’s story?”

“What about the mother who will continue to tuck her kids in at night and read them Bible stories because she never became the next victim of a violent career criminal?” he said. “Where is that data point in the minority impact statement?”

House lawmakers also approved separate legislation that would increase Iowa’s statewide bond schedule, Senate File 2399.

That bill passed on a vote of 74-19.

Iowans could see more information on judges’ rulings

Iowans would have access to more information about judges’ rulings ahead of the state’s judicial retention elections under a separate measure, House File 2719, which passed on a 73-19 vote.

The Iowa secretary of state’s office would be required to publish information including:

The percentage of cases in which the judge set a bond amount lower than the state’s bond schedule
The frequency that the judge releases someone on their own recognizance for a violent offense compared to a nonviolent offense
The frequency that the judge’s final sentence is lower than statutory recommendations or a prosecutor’s recommendations
The number of times the judge issues a deferred judgement, deferred sentence or suspended sentence
The number of times the judge’s rulings are reversed on appeal due to abuse of discretion or error of law
The average time it takes the judge to rule on a motion or case
The number of cases the judge has resolved compared to the number of cases on the judge’s docket

The data would have to be displayed with a five-year trend line beginning five years after the bill takes effect.

The Secretary of State’s Office would also be required to maintain a searchable database of all judicial opinions and orders for the judge’s current term and the preceding six years. The decisions would be redacted when appropriate.

And judges would have the opportunity to write a 2,000-word personal statement on their judicial philosophy or data trends present in their rulings.

Stephen Gruber-Miller covers the Iowa Statehouse and politics for the Register. He can be reached by email at sgrubermil@registermedia.com or by phone at 515-284-8169. Follow him on X at @sgrubermiller.

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Man sentenced for killing 4 people appeals his sentence to the Iowa Supreme Court

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March 4, 2026

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Man sentenced for killing 4 people appeals his sentence to the Iowa Supreme Court

CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa (KCRG) – Luke Truesdell’s attorney has filed as of Sunday to appeal his sentence to the Iowa Supreme Court.

Truesdell was sentenced last week to three consecutive life sentences plus 50 years for the deaths of four people killed in rural Linn County.

A jury convicted Luke Truesdell, 36, in November on the first-degree murder of Brent Brown, 34; his girlfriend, Keonna Ryan, 26, of Cedar Rapids; and Amanda Parker, 33, of Vinton. They also found him guilty of second-degree murder in the death of Romondus Cooper, 44, of Cedar Rapids.

His attorneys previously argued multiple reasons for a retrial that could potentially be brought up again.

They said that one juror was overheard talking about news on the case.

They also said the prosecutors inflamed the jury, rather than focusing on the facts.

His lawyers said there is no direct evidence that Truesdell committed the murders.

Truesdell’s defense also pointed to Truesdell’s father, Larry Tuesdell, who was found covered in blood at the scene but never fully investigated. Authorities have not been able to locate Larry.

The state disagreed, citing overwhelming evidence including DNA on the murder weapon, eyewitness testimony and video of Truesdell entering the garage where the four people were found dead.

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2026 Iowa high school boys basketball state tournament brackets, schedule

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2026 Iowa high school boys basketball state tournament brackets, schedule

The Iowa high school boys state basketball tournament is just around the corner and the full field has now been set.

By March 13, four teams will be crowned state champions and there are plenty of worthy squads vying for the title. On Tuesday, the final brackets were released and we now have a clear picture of the eight teams in each class hoping to take home the trophy.

Here’s a look at the first-round pairings and the full state tournament schedule for next week’s IHSAA action.