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A $93 million Procter & Gamble warehouse being developed in Franklin County, Pa., is expected to bring nearly 1,000 jobs to the region, the company announced Thursday. The consumer goods powerhouse said it will use a new 1.7 million-square-foot distribution center to serve its Northeast retailers. “Shippensburg is a perfect location,” said Jeff LaRoy, a spokesman for P&G. P&G will lease the facility from Liberty Property Trust, a real estate investment business based in Malvern, Pa. It has holdings in the Lehigh Valley, central Pennsylvania and Hagerstown.

It began with piece of junk mail. Because you were busy, you tossed it on a table, and moved on to other, more important things in your life. But the next day, a magazine and a store catalog landed there, plus several birthday cards from friends and a week's worth of newspapers. Every time you passed by, you considered sorting through the items and discarding what you didn't need. Instead, you continued adding to the pile, telling yourself you'd get around to straightening things up as soon as you had some free time.

-MAY 12, 2010 ST. LOUIS, Mo. - Ian Archer Navarro (Mendez), 44, died of metastatic cancer on Wednesday, May 12, 2010, in St. Louis, Mo. Ian had recently moved to St. Louis, Mo., with his partner, Paul Huber. They previously resided in Pittsburgh, Pa., Hollywood, Fla., and Tulsa, Okla., for several years, where Ian managed their real estate holdings and a small art gallery. Ian was a 1983 graduate of Boonsboro High School in Boonsboro, Md., and was a well-known and much-loved entrepreneur in the Frederick, Md., area.

For a young boy, few traumas could match the loss of a mother, but Michael “Mick” Moffitt turned a life-changing tragedy into a career dedicated to saving lives. “He took something awful and turned it into something positive and made a life mission of it,” Hagerstown Acting Fire Chief Kyd Dieterich said of Moffitt, who lost his mother Linda in a fire at their North Mulberry Street home in Hagerstown on Nov. 1, 1976. Dieterich and retired Hagerstown firefighter Rich Jordan, who both were at the fire, traveled to Texas in November to surprise Moffitt at the 100th graduation ceremony at the Emergency Training Center near Dallas.

A Frederick, Md., man was pronounced dead at the scene of a crash between a tractor-trailer and a passenger car Friday afternoon on U.S. 340 east (Jefferson Pike) near Md. 67 (Rohrersville Road) in southern Washington County, according to a Maryland State Police news release. David James Forward, 56, of Frederick, was killed in the 5:55 p.m. crash, troopers said. Gregory Steven Givens, 31, of Yemassee, S.C., was taken to Frederick Memorial Hospital for treatment of minor injuries, troopers said.