Michael McAfee, the receiver in several lawsuits involving former photo archivist John Rogers of North Little Rock, filed a motion Thursday for Rogers to be held in contempt of court.
Performing one of his duties, McAfee took possession of much of Rogers' property, including Sports Card Plus in North Little Rock, a former Rogers business.
In the filing in Pulaski County Circuit Court, McAfee claims that on Saturday night Rogers entered the premises with a key and security pass code. McAfee said he believed Rogers got a key from Angelica Rogers, his ex-wife.
Backup computer hard drives that are part of the receivership property were taken, including more than 1 million scanned photos, McAfee said in the filing. McAfee said he has copies of the missing data.
Since then, the locks to the property have been changed and Angelica Rogers was not provided with a new key, McAfee said.
-- David Smith
Wal-Mart layaways getting earlier start
Wal-Mart customers can begin putting items for Christmas on layaway beginning today.
Shoppers have access to layaway two weeks earlier than last year. They have until Dec. 14 to fully pay for and pick up purchases. Pickup has been extended from 60 to 90 days.
While there is no fee for putting a hold on goods, customers must pay 10 percent down. All purchases in an account must total at least $50 and purchases under $10 are not eligible.
Anne Marie Kehoe, vice president of toys at Wal-Mart, said more than 40,000 products are available for layaway. Wal-Mart restarted its Christmas layaway five years ago and the service has been popular with customers who need more time to pay and those who are looking for a place to hide toys.
"It's an important opportunity for customers," Kehoe said.
-- Chris Bahn
State's stocks ride wave, close higher
The Arkansas Index, a price-weighted index that tracks the largest public companies based in the state, rose 4.37 to 323.83 Thursday.
"U.S. stocks continued to surge higher on Thursday as second quarter U.S. gross domestic product was revised upward and crude oil rallied the most in six years to help spur the markets higher," said John Blackwell, senior vice president and managing director of equity trading at Stephens Inc. in Little Rock.
Murphy Oil had the best day, gaining 6.6 percent in heavy trading.
Tyson Foods was up 3.8 percent on average volume.
Total volume of the index was 28.2 million shares.
The index was developed by Bloomberg News and the Democrat-Gazette with a base value of 100 as of Dec. 30, 1997.
Business on 08/28/2015