DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — A Polk County judge has ordered law enforcement not to disclose confidential information in the case of a man accused of killing two Iowa police officers after the man’s attorney asked for a gag order. Lawyers for Scott Greene complained about a Polk County Jail employee’s comment Feb. 17 on a newspaper Facebook post regarding Greene’s request for a change of venue. Details about the comment were sealed by the court.

Greene has pleaded not guilty to two murder charges in the Nov. 2 ambush-style slayings of Urbandale Police Officer Justin Martin and Des Moines Police Sgt. Anthony Beminio. The shootings took place about two miles apart within minutes of each other as both officers sat in their patrol cars. Authorities have said that Greene turned himself in hours later.

DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — The Iowa Supreme Court has ruled that age alone is enough to show a person needs protection from elder abuse under a state law enacted in 2014. The ruling Friday comes in the case of 69-year-old Judith Chapman, who successfully obtained an elder abuse protection order against her adult son, John Wilkinson Jr., in late 2014.

Chapman transferred title of her mobile home to Wilkinson, telling him that when she died, the trailer would be his. Wilkinson later demanded $35,000 to transfer title back to his mother. When she refused, he posted eviction notices on her door.

On Friday, Justice David Wiggins wrote that the law defines vulnerable adults as those 60 or older who are unable to protect themselves because of “age or a mental or physical condition.”

Police in Clarinda late Friday night arrested a man wanted on a felony warrant for Stalking. At around 11:55-p.m., 43-year old Shane Michael Alan LeRoy Lorenz, of Des Moines, was arrested after officers conducted a traffic stop at 16th & Lincoln Streets in Clarinda, and discovered Lorenz was wanted on arrest warrants from Polk County.

Lorenz was taken into custody without incident and booked into the Page County Jail and held on a $10,000 cash only bond, pending return to Polk County.

A rock-n-roll hall-of-famer is coming to the Iowa State Fair in Des Moines this summer. John Mellencamp will be performing at the Iowa State Fair for the first time in his 35-year career. Fair officials announced Friday that Mellencamp will be featured on the Grandstand stage on the night of Saturday August 19th.

Tickets for the show will go on sale at 10 a.m. on March 3rd. Mellencamp has a new album that’ll be released in April. Some of the other acts scheduled to headline the Grandstand during the Iowa State Fair’s 11-day run include Nickelback, Little Big Town, and Alabama.

More on the web at https://www.iowastatefair.org/entertainment/grandstand/

(Radio Iowa)