Start your day with a quick digest of today's top Central Florida headlines.
 Millennium Falcon: Smugglers Run, a new "Star Wars" ride at Disneyland, gives control to theme-park visitors in the cockpit of the iconic spaceship. |   | |
 Hurricane Michael slashed across 200 miles of Florida and Georgia last October, inflicting devastation on Mexico Beach, rural communities and agriculture. We retrace Michael's march from its Category 5 landfall to central Georgia, where it weakened to a tropical storm, to assess the pace of recovery. | | | |
 Florida's annual tax-free hurricane preparedness period runs from May 31 to June 6, where people can get tax savings on generators, tarps and other supplies. With hurricanes hitting Florida in three straight years, there could be bigger sales as residents have it more on their minds. | | | |
 Records released by the Seminole-Brevard State Attorney's Office on Wednesday provide an intimate look into the relationship between Amato and Silviya Ventsislavova, the Bulgarian webcam model, in the months leading to the January killings of Amato's parents and brother. Authorities say Grant Amato had stolen about $200,000 from his family to send to Ventsislavova, angering his family. He then violated his family's ultimatum to stop talking to the woman if he wanted to continue living in their Sultan Circle home. | | | |
 Four of the most powerful elected officials in Florida held a meeting in another continent 6,000 miles away Wednesday, seemingly the first time an official government meeting was held in another country. | | | |
 As Legoland prepares to open its third hotel next year, business leaders in Winter Haven say the theme park's impact has led to a resurgence in the local economy. | | | |
 Dhyana Mishra, 14, is one of 50 finalists slated to appear today in the final competition of the Scripps National Spelling Bee. The Brevard County 8th grader advanced by spelling two words correctly in the early oral rounds and getting a top score on the written test contestants took Monday. | | | |
 Sharks are always off the coast of Florida, but as beachgoers take to the shores for summer, expect more social-media posts of dorsal fins, and find out the best ways to stay safe in Sunshine State. | | | |
 Lucky's Market has set an opening date for its store in the old Sports Authority location east of downtown Orlando. | | | |
 Georgia coach Kirby Smart's talking about moving the annual game against Florida out of Jacksonville is going against tradition and what makes the rivalry special, Sentinel columnist Mike Bianchi writes. | | | |
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