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NEW YORK — American Express will become the exclusive credit card issuer for Hilton Hotels, the company said Thursday, a major success for a business that has been facing increased competition. The New York-based credit card company will be the sole issuer of the Hilton co-branded credit card starting Jan. 1, 2018. Currently Hilton has

MIAMI — Some coastal residents always put off emergency preparations until storm clouds loom on the horizon. The National Hurricane Center is going to try giving those people a deadline this year, issuing experimental advisories showing when tropical-storm force winds may hit particular communities to help them understand when it’s too late to put up

LEXINGTON, Tenn. — Police in Tennessee say a woman failed to tell them her husband, and not a stranger, had abducted her and her four young children. The Jackson Sun (http://bit.ly/2rJ0WiD ) reports that according to court documents, Amanda Crout told authorities that an unknown person had kidnapped her and her children Sunday. The documents

BERLIN — Swedish utility company Vattenfall is investing almost 100 million euros ($112 million) to build a power-to-heat facility in the German capital. Vattenfall says the 120-megawatt thermal energy facility in Berlin’s western district of Spandau aims to use wind power to provide heating to thousands of homes in the city of 3.5 million. Berlin

LARAMIE, Wyo. — Former two-time Wyoming All-American and 1996 Biletnikoff Award winner Marcus Harris is being considered for the 2018 National Football Foundation & College Hall of Fame class. Harris is one of 75 former Football Bowl Subdivision players and one of 98 total players from all divisions of college football eligible for selection in

NORFOLK, Va. — The U.S. Navy has officially received the first of a whole new class of aircraft carriers. The Navy announced Thursday that the USS Gerald R. Ford will now go through various workups at sea before becoming operational in 2020. Delivery of the $12.9 billion carrier by Newport News Shipbuilding follows delays, cost

PRAGUE — A Russian man who faces charges of hacking computers at LinkedIn, Dropbox and other American companies has appealed a Czech court decision that allows his extradition to Russia. On Tuesday, Prague’s Municipal Court ruled Yevgeniy Nikulin can be extradited to either the United States or Russia because the requests from both countries met

EAST CHICAGO, Ind. — The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency says it will clean lead-contaminated property in a northwest Indiana city so that it meets residential standards. The (Northwest Indiana) Times (http://bit.ly/2qJEt04 ) reports the agency will continue a feasibility study to find alternatives for cleaning up the West Calumet Housing Complex in East Chicago. The

MUNICH — Former Bundesliga team 1860 Munich said Thursday its financial backer has made demands that cannot be fulfilled, creating an impasse that threatens the club’s future with a key deadline approaching. 1860, which was relegated from Germany’s second division on Tuesday, faces insolvency and demotion to the fourth or fifth tier unless it can

RUTHERFORDTON, N.C. — A North Carolina minister “directed and participated in” the beating of a congregant who says the assault was meant to expel his “homosexual demons,” a prosecutor said Thursday. Prosecutor Garland Byers gave his opening statement in the trial of Brooke Covington, a 58-year-old a minister at Word of Faith Fellowship in Spindale,

WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. — Purdue University trustees have slightly reduced the school’s annual tuition and fees after it was expected that they would freeze the rates. The (Lafayette) Journal and Courier reports (http://on.jconline.com/2rfk3iK ) that trustees on Wednesday reduced Purdue’s annual tuition and fees by $10. That means the rate for Indiana students will be

CARACAS, Venezuela — As thousands of people fled tear gas at a recent anti-government protest, a single young woman stood still, protected only by a gas mask and a white helmet with a green cross. The woman took shelter under a bridge and attended to a person whose right ankle was bloody and injured. She

DAVENPORT, Iowa — The former executive director of an Iowa nonprofit that promotes healthy, affordable school meals is accused of embezzling at least $169,000 over a five-year period, according to an audit released Thursday. Norma LaMantia deposited hundreds of checks meant for the School Nutrition Association of Iowa into her personal bank accounts from 2011

BISMARCK, N.D. — The $3.8 billion Dakota Access pipeline began shipping oil for customers on Thursday, as Native American tribes that opposed the project vowed to continue fighting. Dallas-based Energy Transfer Partners announced that the 1,200-mile line carrying North Dakota oil through South Dakota and Iowa to a distribution point in Illinois had begun commercial

NORTH ATTLEBOROUGH, Mass. — The Massachusetts town where Aaron Hernandez lived is seeking more than $93,000 in unpaid real estate taxes from the late New England Patriots player’s estate. North Attleborough Treasurer Christopher Sweet tells The Sun Chronicle (http://bit.ly/2rul476 ) the unpaid taxes date to 2014. Hernandez purchased the home in 2012 for $1.3 million.

IRVING, Texas — Longtime Virginia Tech coach Frank Beamer and former Texas coach Mack Brown, along with former players Charles Woodson, Ed Reed and Calvin Johnson, are among those making their first appearance on the College Football Hall of Fame ballot this year. The ballot released Thursday by the National Football Foundation includes 75 players

CAIRO — An Egyptian court has sentenced to death a man convicted of sexually assaulting a toddler in a case that sparked public uproar and anger amid calls to impose harsher penalties on offenders in cases of sexual violence cases in Egypt. The case dates back to March, when 34-year old Ibrahim al-Refaei abducted the

GOSHEN, Ind. — An Indiana woman pleaded guilty Thursday to smothering her two children to death last fall after abducting them from their custodial grandparents’ home. Amber Pasztor, 30, pleaded guilty but mentally ill to two counts of murder after an Elkhart County judge ruled she was competent to stand trial. The judge accepted her

CHICAGO — United Airlines says it will start flying between Los Angeles and Singapore, a distance of about 8,700 miles, making it the longest route to or from the United States. Westbound flights will be a derriere-numbing 17 hours and 55 minutes. They will leave Los Angeles each evening and arrive two days later local

NEW YORK — The late rap icon Notorious B.I.G will be honored at the ASCAP Rhythm & Soul Awards later this month. The performing rights organization said Thursday that the rapper will receive its ASCAP Founders Award on June 22 at The Beverly Wilshire Hotel in Los Angeles. It will be its 30th annual Rhythm

LONDON — The top contenders in Britain’s upcoming election agreed Thursday that Brexit is coming, but clashed over how best to wiggle out of the European Union. Prime Minister Theresa May told supporters in northern England that Britain’s vote nearly one year ago to leave the EU bloc will make a wealth of new opportunities

TORONTO — A former nurse pleaded guilty Thursday to first-degree murder in the deaths of eight nursing home residents in one of the worst serial-killer cases in Canadian history. Elizabeth Wettlaufer also pleaded guilty to four counts of attempted murder and two counts of aggravated assault. The 49-year-old, who appeared in a Woodstock, Ontario, courtroom,

AIKEN, S.C. — Authorities in South Carolina say a 26-year-old man has been charged with homicide by child abuse in the death of his 1-month-old son. Aiken County sheriff’s deputies said in a news release that Trevonta Langford was arrested Wednesday. Investigators say Langford called 911 on March 31, saying his then 1-month old son

SAO PAULO — Questions are emerging about the location of the remains of two-time World Cup champion Mane Garrincha. The city of Mage, outside of Rio de Janeiro, said late Wednesday that there are two graves in a local cemetery marked with the name of the Brazil soccer great, but no records of his remains

SUSSEX, Wis. — Thanks to an ill-timed painting break, a water tower emblazoned with the word “sex” is greeting drivers as they pass through a town in southeast Wisconsin. The gaff turned up in Sussex, a village about 20 miles northwest of Milwaukee. WTMJ-TV reports (http://bit.ly/2rIHWkc ) that workers painting the town’s name on the