LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) — A UPS cargo plane crashed Tuesday at a Louisville, Kentucky airport where the company operates its largest package delivery hub.

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UPS calls the giant center Worldport.

Here’s what to know about its enormous scale:

Processes 2 million packages per day

The facility at Muhammad Ali International Airport sprawls across the equivalent of 90 football fields.

It processes 2 million packages per day in a facility. It has the ability to handle even more: It has the capacity for 416,000 packages and documents per hour.

A time-lapse video UPS posted on YouTube shows planes taxiing to and from special cargo gates. Workers unload containers packed with cardboard boxes. Other employees load the boxes onto a conveyor belt, which delivers packages to workers who load them into other containers.

A UPS town

Some 20,000 people work at the center, making UPS the largest employer in the Louisville area, the company said on its website.

Louisville Metro Council member Betsy Ruhe said everyone in town knows someone who works at UPS.

“My heart goes out to everybody at UPS because this is a UPS town,” Ruhe said. “My cousin’s a UPS pilot. My aide’s tennis partner is a UPS pilot. The intern in my office works overnight at UPS to pay for college.”

Hundreds of flights per day

More than 300 flights take off and land from the facility each day, the company said on its website.

The center has room for 125 aircraft to park.

Louisville’s location in Kentucky puts it within four hours of flight time to 95% of the U.S. population. It serves 200 countries around the world.

UPS flies six different types of planes in the U.S.

It has 27 MD-11s, which is the model that crashed on Tuesday. It also flies the A300-600, which is an Airbus, and four different types of Boeing jets: 757-200, 767-300, 747-400 and 747-8.

Expansion plans

In 2022, the company said it would begin building a new aircraft hangar in Louisville that would be large enough to park two 747 planes, which are the largest in its fleet, and eight new flight simulators.

UPS Healthcare, which provides shipments for clinical trials and shipments to medical care patients and other services was due to get two new buildings in the expansion.

UPS gets permission to fly its own planes in 1988

UPS got its start in Seattle in 1907, when two teenagers started American Messenger Co. The name United Parcel Service debuted in 1919.

The company won Federal Aviation Administration approval to operate its own aircraft in 1988.

Headquartered in Atlanta, UPS today employs about 490,000 people worldwide.

This version of the story corrects the size of the facility to say it’s the equivalent of 90 football fields instead of 10.

A major investment in southern Minnesota’s public safety infrastructure is officially underway.

Gov. Tim Walz and local leaders broke ground Monday afternoon on a new Bureau of Criminal Apprehension regional office and forensic laboratory in Mankato.

The $67 million project is designed to speed evidence processing, expand forensic capabilities and provide advanced training opportunities for law enforcement across the region. Once operational, the planned 56,000-square-foot facility, at 2350 Bassett Drive next to the Blue Earth County Justice Center, is expected to process up to 6,000 cases and 12,000 pieces of evidence annually, Walz said.

“While this will speed up processing time for crime scene investigations in southern Minnesota, it’ll have a cascading effect of taking pressure off the St. Paul BCA lab,” he said. “This is all part of making sure we’re able to process those crime scenes, get the evidence necessary, make sure it goes to the courts and we’re able to make sure that safety is the top priority.”

The facility will provide faster turnaround times for DNA, firearms and drug testing for local law enforcement who drive or ship evidence hundreds of miles to St. Paul for testing — a process that adds delays to investigations and court cases. Walz said an estimated 50 agents, forensic scientists and support staff will be housed at the new lab, creating new specialized jobs in the Mankato area while reducing the reliance on the Twin Cities facility.

Blue Earth County Sheriff Jeff Wersal said the new facility will allow officers to remain in their communities while ensuring faster evidence analysis and more efficient case management.

“To have that literally right in our backyard is going to be great, not only for us, but for the chiefs and sheriffs around the state that no longer have to make that trip again to St. Paul,” Wersal said.

The new regional office will serve as a hub for professional development, BCA Supt. Drew Evans said. Training rooms capable of accommodating up to 60 students will host law enforcement instruction in areas such as crime scene investigation, leadership and digital forensics. The agency trains between 6,000 and 9,000 students statewide each year, and he said the new site will make those opportunities far more accessible for officers in southern Minnesota.

The Mankato lab also is expected to strengthen partnerships between the agency and Minnesota State University, helping to develop the next generation of public safety professionals.

“What we’re working on as part of this is to have regionalization, so that areas like this can continue to thrive, so those partnerships can be there, so those specialized services can be born across the entire state,” Evans said.

Evans said the regional lab is a development five years in the making and fulfills a key component of the $887 million infrastructure bill signed by Walz in January.

Construction of the facility is expected to be completed in early 2027, with move-in planned for March of that year.

“The BCA’s strength lies in its people. The agents, forensic scientists, analysts and support staff who bring specialized investigative and scientific resources to southern Minnesota,” said Department of Public Safety Commissioner Bob Jacobson. “Their work often happens behind the scenes, but their impact is seen in every community that becomes safer because of their efforts, from crime scene response to forensic analysis to technology-driven investigations.”

In the midst of the Wild’s five-game losing streak to end October, the statistic that stood out most negatively was their penalty kill. They ended the season’s first month with a 3-6-3 record and were in a battle with the Ottawa Senators for the NHL’s worst numbers with a man in the penalty box.

One factor in Minnesota’s slump-busting win versus Vancouver to start November was a 3-for-3 night when the Canucks were on the power play.

Yes, it was just one game. But in that success, the Wild’s head coach saw some of the vital little things that can make the razor thin difference between winning and losing.

“One, we won some faceoffs. So we got the puck out of our end,” John Hynes said in praise of his penalty killers. “We were good on the forecheck, of not allowing easy sets, which allowed us to get into pressure and be able to clear pucks. So we didn’t have to spend the whole time in the D zone.”

In expressing some frustration with his team’s effort in the final game of October, a 4-1 loss to Pittsburgh, Hynes had spoken of the game’s fundamentals — playing with pace, competing for pucks, digging in for faceoffs — and the willingness to do those things. In a few examples of his team sacrificing their bodies to block pucks on the penalty kill, he saw clear evidence of that necessary refocusing on the game’s basics to beat the Canucks.

“We had two huge blocks. (Jonas) Brodin had a block right at the net-front, and (Marco) Rossi had a huge block, which is what you need on the kill,” Hynes said. “They’ve got five of the top players on the ice, so there’s usually going to be some kind of a scoring chance. If there’s a breakdown and you have shot-blocking and that type of commitment on top of getting a save, usually that’s a good recipe.”

The Wild entered Tuesday night’s game against Nashville still 31st out of 32 in the NHL on the penalty kill, ahead of Ottawa, with a 64.3 percent success rate.

Fourth line chemistry

A glance at the game-by-game line charts shows the trio of Tyler Pitlick, Ben Jones and Yakov Trenin filling the fourth line role in the Wild’s two most recent wins: Oct. 20 versus the Rangers in New York, and Nov. 1 versus the Canucks in St. Paul.

While Hynes still wants to get rookie Danila Yurov in the mix from time to time, the Pitlick-Jones-Trenin trio’s propensity to win faceoffs and play quality minutes had them back on the line chart together versus the Predators.

“They’ve been very effective in the last two wins,” Hynes said. “They know what they need to do. Pitlick had two or three blocks, some big hits. Trenny had some big hits. They were on the forecheck. Jonesy was in there, he was good in the faceoff circle. I think they talk on the bench, so they bring what you need from that kind of ‘energy’ line.”

Pitlick and Jones had spent a little time as linemates in Iowa prior to their call-up to the Wild, and said there was a natural comfort when they were reunited at the NHL level.

“I feel like we all kind of understand the assignment, creating energy and getting pucks in deep, being physical, being responsible defensively,” said Pitlick, who entered the Nashville game still looking for his first point in his eighth game with the Wild. “It’s just gonna be simple with us. Right up, get it in, forecheck, get it back to the D and get to the net.”

Jones, who got his fifth game for the Wild on Tuesday, has perhaps found his niche as a faceoff specialist on a team for which starting with possession has been a struggle.

“I think we’re still players that play pretty similarly, and understand how important it is to play that way,” Jones said. “We know what we are and play within that. … We’re guys that are always willing to chat and see what the other guy is seeing.”

Jones entered the Nashville game having won a team-best 69.6 percent of his faceoffs this season.

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WASHINGTON (AP) — Aftab Pureval won reelection as mayor of Cincinnati on Tuesday, defeating Cory Bowman, a Republican who is Vice President JD Vance’s half-brother.

Pureval was first elected mayor in 2021. The office is officially nonpartisan, but his party preference is Democratic.

Pureval won the all-party municipal primary in May with more than 80% of the vote. Prior to running for mayor, he worked as a lawyer.

The Associated Press declared Pureval the winner at 8:13 p.m.