GLENWILLOW, Ohio - The company that makes Royal vacuum cleaners has finalized purchasing the assets of the Oreck Corp., the company's new owners announced Thursday.

Royal Appliance Mfg. Co. purchased the assets of Nashville-based Oreck for $17.25 million in cash and various liabilities, according to records filed in the United States Bankruptcy Court for the Middle District of Tennessee, Nashville Division. The court formally approved the purchase agreement July 16, and the sale of assets was finalized late Wednesday, a company spokeswoman said.

Royal is part of Glenwillow-based TTI Floor Care, which also include the Hoover, Dirt Devil and Hoover Commercial brands.

TTI Floor Care and former Oreck CEO Tom Oreck announced Thursday that both parties were close to reaching an agreement for the former company head to purchase "an unspecified number" of Oreck retail stores. Both parties also said in a news release that they were close to reaching an agreement in which Tom Oreck would continue as the "public spokesman" for the 50-year-old brand.

"We are excited at the potential for a partnership with Tom Oreck, said TTI Floor Care President Simon Lawson in the release. "He brings a great deal of successful experience with both the Oreck brand and customer service driven retail operations.

Added Oreck in the release: "The legacy of the Oreck stores is their unyielding commitment to the Oreck customer. "The power of the Oreck experience, combined with the resources of TTI, will serve to enhance and sustain the Oreck brand and the fine people who build, sell and service Oreck for generations to come."

Oreck products will continue to be made in Cookeville, Tenn., the release said.

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SHERMAN – A janitor has filed a lawsuit against his former employer claiming the employer violated federal law by not paying overtime wages.

Jerry Windham filed suit against OJS Systems Inc. on July 23 in the Eastern District of Texas, Sherman Division. 

Windham worked for the defendant from April 2012 through April 2013 as a janitor.  He claims that during his employment, he worked in excess of 40 hours but was not paid one and one-half times his regular rate of pay for each overtime hour worked.

The defendant is accused of violating the Fair Labor Standards Act, which prohibits the denial of overtime compensation for hours worked in excess of 40 per workweek.

The plaintiff is seeking an award of actual and compensatory damages, including the amount of unpaid overtime, liquidated damages, attorney’s fees, interest and court costs.

Source: SE Texas Record

A heroic Bronx immigrant who desperately tried to save his extended family from one of the deadliest fires in the city’s recent history has been fired for stealing thousands of dollars from a public school.

It’s a stunning fall from grace for Bandiougou Magassa, 48, who last made headlines after rushing inside a four-story home on Woodycrest Ave. in a failed attempt to save an adult relative and eight children undefined five of them nieces and nephews.

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A heroic Bronx immigrant who desperately tried to save his extended family from one of the deadliest fires in the city’s recent history has been fired for stealing thousands of dollars from a public school.

It’s a stunning fall from grace for Bandiougou Magassa, 48, who last made headlines after rushing inside a four-story home on Woodycrest Ave. in a failed attempt to save an adult relative and eight children undefined five of them nieces and nephews.

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JUNEAU, ALASKA undefined The state plans to rebid janitorial contracts for three office buildings after the winning bidder dropped out.

JJG Cleaning Services bid on 10 contracts for cleaning services and won eight of them. But Department of Administration spokesman Andy Mills said the company terminated three of the contracts "due to workload and staffing issues," the Juneau Empire reported

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The 300 union custodians on the chopping block at O'Hare Airport because of a controversial $99 million janitorial contract are not the only maintenance workers being dumped.

Fifty-four custodians charged with cleaning Chicago Public libraries are also getting their walking papers, effective Friday.

Glenda Thomas, 47, who has worked for 17 years at the Hegewisch branch, reported to the Department of Fleet and Facilities Management on Friday morning to drop off her ID card and keys.

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Union custodial workers employed by Scrub, Inc., are being pushed at O’Hare out after Emanuel awarded a new janitorial contract to United Maintenance, a non-union firm.

“I just refuse to go back to where I started. It took so long, and it was so hard to get there,” he said. “Fifteen dollars is like a lot to me, because nobody in my family never made that. I never went to college..

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When WGXA reports on death and crime, viewers get the straight facts of each case, but many times the gruesome details of what goes on behind the scenes are left out.

So, what happens when a dead body is left undiscovered? And who cleans up the mess when somebody finally shows up? The answer is the extreme cleaners.

To the cleaning techs from the X-Treme Cleaners Crime & Death scene Cleaning Services, blood and guts and decomposing bodies are just a few of the hazards on the job.

In a quiet Macon neighborhood X-Treme Cleaners Branch Manager Scott Griffin suits up in full HAZMAT gear as he prepares to enter a home where the remnants of decomposed body await him.,

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