-- An Aurora homeowner who has hundreds of birds in his house is facing a massive cleanup. If he does not comply, authorities say they will take over.

Dave Skeberdis, 57, has to clean up his home in the 200-block of Shadybrook Lane and turn over hundreds of birds to animal control, Aurora officials said at a press conference Wednesday morning. They also called Skeberdis' home a nuisance.

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The seven-year employee of Jancoa Janitorial Services said she regularly cleaned the Enquirer building at Third and Elm streets downtown. 

The minimum rate for janitorial workers has been raised to $9.80 an hour, but they claim their hours have been reduced so their take-home pay is flat and their workload is greater. 

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Fire Investigators are trying to determine what caused a Sunday night fire in Studio City. The massage parlor that burned is owned by the same man who ran controversial ads for a topless maid service emblazoned on hot pink vans and parked on the street. Gordon Tokumatsu reports from Studio City for the NBC4 News at 5 p.m. on Oct. 15, 2012.

Washington County Commissioners awarded the bid for janitorial services at the Health Department to Spencer Management when they met this morning. Spencer Management was the sole bidder when bids were opened last week. Commissioner Mike Dunlap gave an update on the rental space used by the Natural Resource Service Center in the Tyler Ag Building. Commissioners estimate that $90,000 in improvements is needed to bring the building up to the renter's specifications. The current rent is approximately $600/month. Commissioners will look at ways to recoup their expenses should the repairs be made.

Following the lead of University library and janitorial workers, Brown Dining Services employees voted Thursday to switch their union representation from Service Employees International Union Local 615 to the United Service and Allied Workers of Rhode Island.USAW won by a 34-point margin in the run-off election, which was held following a close race at the end of August that resulted in a 76-73 vote for USAW. Because neither party received the required number of votes needed to win in August, the run-off was necessary.  
On Sept. 28 undefined weeks before the run-off vote undefined the SEIUfiled charges with the National Labor Relations Board against the University for unfair labor practices following a series of deductions from employee paychecks at the beginning of the semester. TheSEIU contends that these over-deductions, marked as union dues, created a skewed atmosphere for the election.

“It doesn’t project the image of the city that we think we have,” said Joy Forbes, Burbank’s assistant city manager, who has been fielding complaints. “We have a small-town feel. These types of advertising vehicles don’t reflect the image of Burbank that most people have.”

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At 2 a.m. this morning, the union for many New England janitors announced that a tentative agreement had been reached on a new contract for 14,000 workers. The deal came just after the midnight expiration of the current contract, averting a strike that could have begun this morning. It resolves the latest showdown between the Service Employees International Union (SEIU) and the janitorial contractors hired by major corporations.

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Sniffling, sneezing, and coughing. They are all symptoms of the common coldundefinedand they are on the rise this time of year in metro Denver.

And, with flu season right around the corner, doctors say now’s the time to get ready.

Children’s Hospital Colorado diagnosed two cases of influenza B in the past two weeks.

Genevieve Blauwet is a healthy and obviously happy one-year-old.

But that smile will soon disappear.

Her dad, Jason, brought her to Partners in Pediatrics in Denver for a flu shot.

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The Justice Department announced today that it reached an agreement with Diversified Maintenance Systems LLC, a provider of janitorial and facilities maintenance services based in Tampa, Fla .  The agreement resolves allegations that the company violated the anti-discrimination provision of the Immigration and Nationality Act (INA) when it failed to fully reinstate an employee in retaliation for asserting her right to work in the United States 

The charging party alleged that the company failed to provide the employee with proper notice and instructions for contesting an initial data mismatch in E-Verify, resulting in E-Verify issuing an erroneous final response that she was not work authorized.   E-Verify is an Internet-based system run by the United States Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) that confirms employment eligibility by comparing information from an employee’s Form I-9. 

BURLINGTON undefined A self-employed janitor hired to clean a Boone County office was charged Thursday with killing an office employee he had befriended.

David Dooley, 38, of Burlington is charged with murder and tampering with physical evidence for removing something from the crime scene, said Boone County sheriff’s spokesman Tom Scheben.

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