Start your day with a quick digest of today's top Central Florida headlines.
| Once again, Florida Legislators are pushing a bill that encourages people to bring guns on college campuses, while keeping it a crime to bring guns near politicians, Sentinel columnist Scott Maxwell writes. |
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| The Sentinel announces the finalists for its annual Central Floridian of the Year award: The UCF football team, 4Rivers founder John Rivers, The Three Wise Guys and their faith-based radio show, Winter Park Playhouse founders Roy Alan and Heather Alexander, and Amendment 4 champion Desmond Meade. |
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| Halfway through the 2018-19 school year, Florida's public schools have more than 2,200 teacher vacancies — 700 more than this time last year, according to the statewide teachers union. The state's growing teacher shortage is worrisome, union leaders and educators say. |
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| Orlando-area food banks and other social-service agencies are beginning to feel the impact of federal workers who are nearing the one-month mark without a paycheck. The shutdown also is affecting some of their funding. |
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| Allen Cashe was sentenced to life in prison Wednesday for shooting six people, including two children, during a 2017 shooting spree in Sanford. |
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| The Orlando Magic rallied to force overtime, but they got cold in the extra session and fell on the road to the Detroit Pistons. |
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| The UCF basketball team endured its first AAC loss, losing 75-67 at Wichita State late Wednesday night. |
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| The Apopka Blue Darters rallied in regulation and then made 6-of-8 free throws in two overtime periods to score a 53-47 boys basketball road win at Evans and clinch the No. 1 seed for the upcoming Class 9A, District 3 tournament. |
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| The Orlando Predators will begin play in the third-year NAL this spring. |
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| Sentinel columnist Mike Bianchi has been critical of Urban Meyer, but he writes it's now time for the Florida Gators to forgive their former coach and put him in the Ring of Honor. |
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| Reservations can now be made for Dockside Inn, the final phase of Universal's Endless Summer Resort. It's due to open in May of 2020. |
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| An east Orlando history professor offered to give friends and neighbors the lowdown on Alexander Hamilton before the hit musical came to town. About 100 people took him up on his offer. |
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| Even without Bobby Hatfield, Bill Medley makes his partnership with singer Bucky Heard feel like The Righteous Brothers in the new tour. |
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| In 2019, Disney World saluted Tiana and Buzz Lightyear while Universal awaited Harry Potter. Where are they now, asks the 10-year challenge. |
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| Fred Guttenberg, a Parkland father whose daughter Jamie was one of 17 people killed at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School, requested that the producers of "Happy Death 2 U'' to move the release date of the movie which falls on the anniversary of the school shooting. The date is now Feb. 13. |
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| Following in the footsteps of adrenaline-based venues such as Machine Gun America, ax-throwing and smash rooms are the newest violence-themed, stress-relieving venues vying for customers' dollars in Central Florida. |
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