Start your day with a quick digest of today's top Central Florida headlines.
| Dale Whittaker has already been part of the UCF home team for more than three years. As the university's provost, he oversees faculty, research, academics and curriculum. Now, he assured his bosses, he is ready for the broader, more challenging role of president. |
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| A jury found Noor Salman, widow of Pulse gunman Omar Mateen, not guilty of aiding in the June 12, 2016, attack. |
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| A pathologist hired by attorneys for the family of an unarmed man killed by Sacramento police disputes the police account of the encounter. |
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| The foreman of the Noor Salman jury contacted the Orlando Sentinel with a statement about what the three days of deliberations were like for the 12 people who acquitted the widow of the Pulse shooter, Omar Mateen. |
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| In the case against Noor Salman, the Pulse shooter's widow, the biggest flaw was the missing recorded "confession," Scott Maxwell writes. |
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| It's no secret: Sacha Kljestan really wants to take down the New York Red Bulls. |
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| The Orlando Magic gave up a five-point lead early in the fourth quarter and fell to the Chicago Bulls 90-82 at Amway Center. |
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| Florida State fans should be thankful their administration ignored the criticism and stuck by Hamilton for 16 years … and counting, Mike Bianchi writes. |
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| Montverde (34-0) will play Davie University (33-1) on Saturday for the title of the GEICO High School Basketball Tournament. |
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| Notre Dame upset Connecticut in overtime in a national semifinal of the Final Four. |
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| "Roseanne" will return next season, and so will "Will & Grace" and "Murphy Brown." |
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| Peanut butter and jelly has grown out of its childhood classic sandwich stage into some other dishes at local restaurants. |
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| Some big name advertisers are dropping Fox News personality Laura Ingraham after she criticized one of the Florida school shooting survivors on social media. |
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| Ice skater Mirai Nagasu talks about working with her "skating family" in the traveling tour Stars on Ice, headed to Orlando's Amway Center. |
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| How does the original Twilight Zone Tower of Terror at Disney World stack up against the re-imagined version called Guardians of the Galaxy — Mission: Breakout! at Disney California Adventure? |
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| South Orange Ave. south of downtown in Orlando is getting thousands of new residents, hotels and boutique markets |
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| Universal Orlando announces Halloween Horror Nights 2018 dates, sells "second night free" tickets for the event, which kicks off September 14. |
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