| Good morning. It's Monday, Feb. 22. Driver Denny Hamlin won the Daytona 500 yesterday by beating Martin Truex Jr. by a fraction of a second, the closest finish in the history of the race. Orlando is kicking off a six-month pilot program where several neighborhoods will have one garbage pickup day and one recycling pickup day a week. See photos from the Great Orlando Craft Beer Festival from Saturday night. Here's what else is happening in Central Florida. Have a great day. Daytona dreamin' finally comes true for Denny Hamlin as he beats Martin Truex Jr. on last lap pass. [More] Orlando is testing a new solid waste calendar, increasing recycling pickups and decreasing garbage collection to one per week, each. [More] The populist fervor of Donald Trump and Bernie Sanders hasn't caught on in the halls of the state Capitol. Neither of their insurgent presidential campaigns has any publicly professed supporters in Tallahassee. [More] Since last October, Nemours has been rolling out a program in its emergency department that aims to eliminate unnecessary stimulation for kids who have autism spectrum disorder or other behavioral and developmental conditions. [More] The Ramada Gateway was filled with alien spaceships, pirates and anime warriors on Sunday. And they all slowly advanced – one dice roll or playing card at a time. At Prototype Con in Kissimmee, tabletop game designers and developers gathered to play the greatest game of all: finding a publisher to mass-produce their ideas. [More] In a season filled with so many missed opportunities, the Orlando Magic can add Sunday night's game against the Indiana Pacers to the list. [More] Last weekend, Tim Tebow gave special needs kids throughout the world a "Night to Shine," and on this Sunday he gave a standing-room only church congregation in Clermont a day to remember. [More] Orlando learned its Copa America match-ups at the Citrus Bowl this summer, while the U.S. was drawn into Group of Death. [More] Jason Dean Gibbs was officially listed as the owner for the race-car driven by Sunday's Daytona 500 champion, Denny Hamlin. About a year ago, J.D. began treatments for symptoms impacting areas of his brain function affecting his speech and processing information. [More] The latest Star Wars Land news flash was big on words like "epic" and "breath-taking" but short on fresh details. A segment during Sunday night's broadcast of "The Wonderful World of Disney: Disneyland 60," introduced by actor Harrison Ford, showed several "concept renderings" of attractions coming to Disney's Hollywood Studios and Disneyland. [More] The turnout for "America's Got Talent" auditions was huge in Orlando: 2,000 acts with 5,000 people. [More] First "American Idol" champ Kelly Clarkson returns to the Fox singing contest on Thursday. [More] Jon Cryer returns to 'NCIS,' 'The X-Files' concludes, and 'The Big Bang Theory' celebrates Sheldon and episode 200. [More] Before they died on the same day, Harper Lee and Umberto Eco were not authors with a lot in common. She came of age in the Jim Crow South; he in Mussolini's Italy. She was a populist where he was an academic. She was terse and rarely productive. He had the writerly gift of gab. [More] | 
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