UNITE HERE Local 26 reports that it has reached a tentative deal with the owner of the Hilton Boston Logan Airport and Hilton Boston Park Plaza and has suspended its picketing outside the two hotels.

If workers vote to ratify the deal, they will return to work at 4 a.m. on Friday, the union says, adding the deal also applies to workers at the DoubleTree Hilton Boston-Cambridge and the Hampton Inn & Homewood Suites Boston Seaport, who walked off the job for three days last month.

The Boston City Council voted unanimously today to continue support of UNITE HERE Local 26, currently on strike against the Park Plaza and Airport Hilton after reaching a deal with the Omni Parker House and Boston Seaport hotels. Councilors urged Boston residents to stay away from events at the Park Plaza and Airport hotels.

An Indian national is in federal custody after his arrest at Logan Airport this morning on a charge that he kept exposing himself to other passengers as he attempted to get some personal loving in on a flight from Abu Dhabi - after first failing to get a woman passenger whose hair and breast he touched to spend the night with him in Boston in exchange for a $5,000 "gift," according to documents unsealed in federal court tonight. Read more.

Kevin Kangethe, 42, who allegedly stabbed girlfriend Margaret Mbitu to death, left her jacket-covered body in the front seat of his Toyota Venza at Logan Central Parking, then fled to Kenya in November, was flown back to Boston today to face arraignment on a murder charge in Suffolk Superior Court tomorrow, the Suffolk County District Attorney's office reports. Read more.

The state Department of Public Health reports an "international traveler" who passed through Logan Airport on his or her way from Dartmouth College to Amsterdam on June 22 "was present in public locations that could have resulted in exposure to other people." Read more.

Ari Ofsevit reports that "that rumble over downtown you may have heard" was United Flight 688 coming in not much higher than the tops of some downtown buildings for a 4:39 p.m. landing at Logan at the end of a flight from Newark.

A Dorchester couple who showed up at Logan Airport last month with $589,041 in cash stuffed inside pants in two carry-on suitcases and two duffel bags could be about to lose the money, under a forfeiture motion filed yesterday by the Suffolk County District Attorney's office. Read more.

The Nairobi News reports Kenyan police have re-arrested Kevin Kangethe, wanted for murdering Margaret Mbitu, driving her body to Logan and then leaving it in the car there as he flew to Nairobi last November. Read more.

A man who was being held by Kenyan police pending his return here for trial in the death of a nurse whose body was found in a car at Logan Airport managed to run out of a police station when his lawyer arrived for a visit, then fled on a Nairobi mini-bus to parts unknown, the Nairobi News reports. Read more.

The FBI today arrested an American Airlines flight attendant it says videoed several girls - the youngest just 7 - in lavatories on flights across the country and used an artificial-intelligence program to generate more graphic child-porn images. Read more.