| Nixon orders local home dealer to make good on contracts
A Springfield manufactured homes dealer who failed to deliver homes or provide refunds on two contracts has been ordered to do so in a preliminary injunction obtained Thursday by Missouri Attorney General Jay Nixon. Michael Jackson of Branson, who does business as Dogwood Homes, 3800 W. Sunshine, and his mother, Kay Jackson, the business office manager, are defendants in the case. Thursdays order requires Dogwood Homes to make good on a contract with a Springfield man who paid $52,000 in October for delivery of a modular home and demolition and cleanup of his original home, which burned down. The company has not completed any of those jobs, and to date has refunded $2,500 of the customers down payment. Dogwood Homes must complete that job by May 7, according to the order. The company also must refund within a week a $500 deposit to a Wisconsin man who ordered a mobile home in 2005.
Fashionollia, the Art of Giving
Pierce Brosnan stunt double David Lyons had planned to rappel off Mark and Christel Yaffe's roof, smack into Mingle With the Stars, a cocktail party benefit for Sydney's School for Autism. But big as the Avila mansion is (about 31,000 square feet), it wasn't high enough for a James Bond entry. Instead, Lyons helped auction a collage of autographed photos of every Agent 007. It sold for $2,800 to Denise and Lance Tchor. The March 10 party was the second benefit the Yaffes hosted for a good friend, Kathy Swenson, who named the school at 4518 S Manhattan Ave. for daughter Sydney, 9. It currently serves eight autistic children and 16 other children, ages 3 to 10. Proceeds from the auction, which included six VIP grandstand seats in the Macy's Thanksgiving Day parade, will help add a grade level next year.
Lime's Gorton Trades Fast, Fights Suit, Seeks Car-Free Utopia
March 23 (Bloomberg) -- Step off the elevator into Lime Group's offices atop an 11-story brick building in New York's Chinatown into a crowd of more than 60 stone Buddhas and Asian lions, all handpicked by the company's founder, Mark Gorton. To the right, down a staircase, is a metal door that leads to Lime Brokerage LLC, which Gorton says trades stocks faster than any other company on Wall Street -- as many as 6,000 orders a second. At the end of a long hall is LimeWire LLC, maker of the world's most-popular Internet file-sharing software, with 50 million monthly users. The U.S. recording industry says the product is designed for infringing music copyrights -- an accusation Gorton denies -- and is suing for damages of at least $450 million. Gorton himself sits at a corner desk with a group of math geeks writing algorithms for Tower Research Capital LLC, Lime Group's in-house quantitative hedge fund, a firm with $117 million in assets.
Two mobile homes destroyed in storms; elderly man hurt
PITTSBURG -- At least one person was injured and two mobile homes destroyed here when severe thunderstorms packing heavy rain, high winds and large hail pounded southern Oklahoma, authorities said. Sheriff's deputies and emergency management officials rescued an elderly man Wednesday from a mobile home that was destroyed when severe thunderstorms raced through Pittsburg County late Tuesday. The man was treated at the scene and released, officials said. Trent Myers, Pittsburg County emergency management director, said the damage may have been the result of a downburst, or a collapsing thunderstorm that sends damaging winds down to the surface. No tornado warnings were issued for the storms that hit the county between 10 p.m. and midnight.The National Weather Service in Tulsa said there was no tornado, but there were winds estimated at 60 to 70 mph in s outhern Pittsburg County." "We saw outbuildings torn up, shingles off houses, pontoon boats flipped.
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