<p>UPS Inc. on Friday announced an $82.5 million expansion at its Louisville package-sorting hub, accepting a lucrative incentives package offered by Kentucky.</p><p>The expansion will create 720 new jobs initially.</p><p>The world's largest shipping carrier said it will build a 700,000-square-foot facility at the Louisville air hub, its largest, to handle heavy airline freight.</p><p>Just one day earlier, UPS announced it will close its freight sorting hub in Dayton, Ohio, in 2006, eliminating 1,400 jobs. Louisville was among seven cities contending for the expansion.</p><p>"UPS wants to continue to build on the highly successful partnership UPS and Kentucky have long enjoyed," said John Hindman, a UPS Airlines vice president.</p><p>UPS said Kentucky's incentives package, totaling up to $20 million, helped seal the deal.</p><p>The package consists of tax credits based on the number of full-time jobs created.</p><p>The expansion will position Louisville as UPS' main heavy air freight hub.</p><p>UPS said the expansion is expected to create 120 new full-time jobs and 600 part-time jobs at the start of the new operation. Within 10 years, the expansion should create 400 full-time jobs, the company said.</p><p>Louisville Mayor Jerry Abramson said in a statement: "I think today's announcement brings a whole new meaning to the ads that say, 'What can brown do for you?'"</p>
State Insurance and Safety Fire Commissioner John Oxendine says a fire that gutted portions of a University of Georgia fraternity house Saturday morning but caused no injuries was intentionally set.
Forecasters said Easter morning will arrive with temperatures in the 20s across the Southeast meaning that Easter frills, bonnets and sandals will be replaced with coats, scarves and socks.
