When officers got to the bank, two men who worked on the cleaning crew were leaving the building after accidentally hitting the alarm button while working.

When the officers did a quick background check the found one of the men, Nathan Ketterman, 53, of Akron, had a felony probation violation on a drunk driving arrest through the Carter County Sheriff's Office in Tennesee.

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(KATV) Searcy - A Searcy man was shot and killed killed at work, but there are no witnesses. 24-year old Zachary Mitchell was part of the janitorial staff at a dialysis office at 3210 Langley.

Police don't have a motive or strong leads right now. This is the first murder in the city since January of 2008.

Overlooking U.S. 67/167 the Nephrology Associates dialysis facility sits in a dead end street. It's where 24-year old Zachary Mitchell worked as a janitor.

Sunday night two of Mitchell's friends reportedly stopped by to see him but he didn't answer the door. Terri Lee with the Searcy Police Department says, "They could see inside that he was lying on the floor with a gun shot wound."

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MANILA, Philippines - A Philippine janitorial services company is now targeting to hit P1 billion in profits in the next two years.

Edilberto B. Bravo, chairman at Facilities Managers Inc. (FMI), said there is increased pressure from companies to be more cost-efficient and as a result, these are contracting out services to specialists like themselves.

FMI holds the Philippine master franchise of US-based The Service Master Co. This year FMI expects earnings to reach between P550 million and P600 million.

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A study released in September 2010 regarding cleanliness and kitchen floors may have more sweeping ramifications than anticipated when it comes to protecting human health, especially in facilities such as corrections buildings that have large populations living in relatively small quarters. Leeds Metropolitan University Faculty of Health Department, located just outside of London, England, conducted the study.

According to the researchers,

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Philadelphia (CNN) -- At first, a Philadelphia landlord said, he thought one of his tenants was attempting to conceal a dog after finding a dog dish in the basement of his apartment building.

But on a return trip to the basement Saturday, Turgut Gozleveli found something much more sinister: four mentally disabled people held captive, including one man chained to a radiator.

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Sustainability has emerged as a major platform for the Towson community, and ABM janitorial services plays a major role in aiding Towson as the entire campus pushes for more green products, increased recycling and reduction in general refuse.  In our short time here, ABM has already begun to heed the call to action and find more ways that we can promote campus-wide sustainability through green products and improved cleaning practices.

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Liu developed a method to incorporate a compound known as 2-anthraquinone carboxylic acid, or 2-AQC, into cotton fabrics. This chemical bonds strongly to the cellulose in cotton, making it difficult to wash off, unlike current self-cleaning agents.

Unlike some other experimental agents that have been applied to cotton, it does not affect the properties of the fabric.

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While there are a lot of household uses for white vinegar, it’s not always the absolute best bargain out there.

We’ll use the fabric softener example that Calista points out. As she mentions, it’s often recommended that you use one cup of white vinegar instead of fabric softener in a load of laundry. I often use half a cup myself, except on extremely heavy loads, and it seems to do all right in terms of making the clothes soft.

So, what does that cost? If you can purchase a gallon of vinegar for $2.39, and there are 16 cups in a gallon, you can do 16 loads of laundry with vinegar as the fabric softener for $2.39. That gives you a cost of 14.9 cents per load for white vinegar as a fabric softener.

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In this economy, the decision to add even one person to the payroll is a huge leap of faith for a small company. One marketing firm in Tacoma, Wash., has done the math undefined down to the additional cups of coffee they'd need to make for a new employee undefined and is ready to hire.

At the beginning of every week, Rusty George holds a staff meeting at the image and marketing firm he founded, Rusty George Creative. He pulls down a sleek transparent garage door to close off the conference room, a throwback to the time when this loft office was a garage. It now houses eight employees, and that number will soon grow to nine

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Most of the Tennessee Titans likely wanted to forget every second of their visit to Pittsburgh. The team got beat up by the Steelers on Sunday, 38-17, and surely hurried through the airport without a look back. But for one rookie, a defensive back named Tommie Campbell, there was a good reason to sneak a glance around. Campbell spent a good deal of time at that airport during his college days, and not just because he played for a while at the University of Pittsburgh.

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