| Good morning. It's Monday, May 16. Women now make up half the state circuit judges in Orange and Osceola counties, according to numbers from the Florida Bar and the Office of State Courts Administrator. The debut of 23 stores and a handful of eateries mark the latest phase of the Town Center section of Disney Springs, which has had an emphasis on more stores, more restaurants and a comprehensive retheming from its Downtown Disney era. See photos of the newly opened Town Center section of Disney Springs. Here's what else is happening in Central Florida. Have a great day. The driver in a fiery wrong-way crash that left 11 people hospitalized near Disney's Animal Kingdom Saturday fell asleep at the wheel, the Florida Highway Patrol said. [More] In the early 1990s when Circuit Judge Alice Blackwell tried to walk through the judge's entrance to the Orange County Courthouse with a group of other judges after lunch, deputies would stop her. [More] Former Freedom High band teacher Franklin Jennings was first accused of exchanging sexual text messages with a former student in 2009. [More] Central Florida shoppers and sightseers entered new territory Sunday: The Town Center section of Disney Springs opened to the public for the first time. [More] "Sunday Family Fun Days," was the second event a series offered at the Venue on the Lake civic center, through a partnership with Orlando-based MicheLee Puppets. [More] Orlando City suffered a 2-1 loss at Sporting Kansas City, letting the opponents fire 34 shots and extending its winless streak to six games. [More] Jason Day continued his impressive run of dominance at the Players Championship against one of the best fields in golf. Day went wire to wire for the win, earned $1.8 million and further distanced himself from every other player in the game. [More] Hunter Kemper struggled writing a Facebook post a few days ago, explaining his decision not to try to qualify for his fifth Olympics as an American triathlete. But it was much harder articulating it to his 9-year-old-son Davis. [More] A bomb disposal unit carried out a controlled explosion at Manchester United's Old Trafford stadium on Sunday. [More] Advertisement Orlando Pride coach Tom Sermanni is eager to his team learn from a bumpy start against the Western New York Flash. [More] Noelle Mason, a Tampa artist, is this year's winner of the Florida Prize in Contemporary Art. Orlando Museum of Art, which established the prize in 2014, presents the award each year to an artist who lives and works in the state. [More] Universal Orlando has revealed some key stats about the star of Skull Island: Reign of Kong, its under-construction attraction at Islands of Adventure theme park. . [More] Ride videos coming out of the not-quite-open Shanghai Disneyland resort have tongues wagging among stateside theme-park enthusiasts. [More] In all my years of riding roller coasters, I've never once mulled the conversion of kinetic energy to potential energy back to kinetic energy and so forth. Maybe next time I will, now that I've learned a thing or two about gravity at Kinetic Zone, the newly installed permanent exhibit at Orlando Science Center. [More] | 
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