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BALLWIN, MO (KTVI) – Ballwin police have charged a housekeeper with stealing, after four Blues tickets and a parking pass were stolen from a Ballwin home.

Charges against 21 year-old Kacy Woods have just been filed, but it all dates back to March, when Jeff Johnson was about to take his sons to a Blues vs. Dallas Stars game.  That’s when he noticed the four tickets, valued at $169 each, were missing from the kitchen counter, where they`d been sitting for days.

The Johnsons reported the tickets stolen and received new ones at the Blues box office.  Sure enough, when Johnson and his two sons got to their seats, two strangers were already there.  The two claimed they bought the tickets on Craigslist from Woods, the Johnsons’ housekeeper.

“You know, you do feel a little violated, but for me, I was glad that it was just tickets. You know, it could have been something more,” explains Jeff Johnson’s wife, Valarie.

FOX2 headed to this housekeeper`s Arnold home, looking for answers.  Woods did admit to selling two of the tickets on craigslist, for $100 each.  She says, “I was like, I don`t need four, I do need money, ok, I`ll sell the other two tickets, why not?”

But she claims she bought them from a construction worker, part of a crew working on the Johnsons` basement: “I was talking to them about how me and my boyfriend like the Blues, and he said he had some tickets, relatively cheap for sale.”

However, according to the construction company`s log, the workers were not in the home the day Woods was there cleaning, and say they never spoke to her.  But if that`s the case, how did she give an accurate description of the two men?

“If Kacy had never been here before, it`s odd that she would give this description, because that is true. There was a taller guy, he was older,” admits Johnson.

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JACKSON, MI – A new contract for janitorial services at city-owned properties will push out a Jackson-based company and likely result in four layoffs of its employees.

Beginning July 1, A Williams Cleaning Services will no longer provide cleaning services for the city after nearly four years as the lead cleaning company. Owner Al Williams said he has contracted on and off with the city for 15 years."It's unfortunate the city won't work with a Jackson company," he said. "The four employees I have working part-time to clean those properties - all of who live in Jackson - will likely be laid off and they're looking for other jobs."

Jackson City Council voted 4-3 this month to approve a contract with RNA Janitorial. The Ann Arbor-based company provided a bid of $46,176, nearly $13,000 a year lower than A Williams Cleaning Services' bid of $59,124.

"Money doesn't grow on trees and $13,000 isn't anything to sneeze at," Councilman Andrew Frounfelker, 5th Ward, said at the May 13 council meeting.

Mayor Jason Smith and council members Arlene Robinson, 1st Ward, and Kimberly Jaquish, 2nd Ward, voted against contracting with RNA Janitorial.

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Ann Handley: I like Facebook, but I struggle with how to use it a business platform. Is Facebook really great for business?

Paul Chaney: Is Facebook really great for business? With over 300 million members and growing (50 percent of which log on to Facebook daily), it has to be… especially if you're a B2C company.

From the perspective of a company using Facebook, the only legitimate options are Pages and Ads (aside from creating Facebook apps of course, and using Facebook Share or Connect, which we'll discuss later). If those are the options, then it's a matter of making the most of what's available to you.

I believe you have to view the creation of a Facebook Page the same as you view creating a community, for that's what it is. Facebook may call them "Fans," but I think of them as community members.

Therefore, the same principles that make for vital online communities apply here: Regular updates with fresh content, incentivizing fans to spread the word about the page, and encouraging them to comment on posts made by the administrator as well as upload content themselves.

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NEW YORK CITY undefined One of the most crucial questions Bob Dagger has on a first date is, "Will the woman be wearing 

perfume?"

Any whiff of a chemical-ladened synthetic fragrance, found in many perfumes and cleaning products, will trigger breathing difficulties and an embarrassing outbreak of coughing for Dagger.

His issue with synthetic fragrance is just one on a long list of chemical sensitivities that he believes are more common than many people realize.   

"A lot of people have this [chemical sensitivity] and don't even know it," said Dagger, who turned from a "rock and roll" lifestyle to being ...

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SPEEDWAY, Ind. (May 26, 2014)undefined Hundreds of volunteers spend their Memorial Day cleaning up after The Greatest Spectacle in Racing.

Hours after race fans filled seats at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway, full trash bags took their place.

“Tons of trash,” described Mooresville High School sophomore Matt Faber. “Just tons!”

Once the sun came up Monday, you could see no shortage in the in-field, either.

“You get over a quarter million people inside the facility for race day,” said Doug Boles with IMS. “It gets pretty torn up.”

Joseph Smallman and his classmates from Emmerich Manual High School volunteered to help out and get the track clean. Some of them even started before the Indy 500 began.

“So far, we’ve gotten half of this cleaned up,” said Smallman. “We’ll probably be here until midnight.”

The students are one of 20 groups and non-profits taking part in the post-race cleanup. For some, it’s an annual tradition with its share of surprises and souvenirs?

“I actually found earmuffs and everything,” said Smallman. “And my brother found two coolers, the rubber coolers.”

“Lots of unopened Hambur

COLUMBUS JCT., Iowa undefined Outsourcing its custodial services is expected to save the Columbus Community School District $150,000 to $165,000 and no current employee is expected to be laid off involuntarily.

The School Board agreed Monday to a one-year contract with ABM Janitorial Services, Cedar Rapids. No contract figure was announced, but during a presentation last month, company representatives indicated the cost would be $194,300 to $254,500.

Superintendent Marlene Johnson said the contract would include a provision that the company would retain all current staff recommended by the school and at current wages.

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Atlanta (CNN) -- The first case of Middle East Respiratory Syndrome believed to be transmitted within the United States has been identified in an Illinois man who was infected and is no longer sick, a doctor with the Centers Disease Control and Prevention said Saturday.

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