Start your day with a quick digest of today's top Central Florida headlines.
 Here's how you can celebrate the Apollo 11 moon landing anniversary in Central Florida, including an event in Orlando and several at Kennedy Space Center. |   | |
 Gov. Ron DeSantis signed a controversial bill into law Friday requiring ex-felons to pay court-ordered financial penalties to get their voting rights restored. | | | |
 London Harrell, a UCF student severely injured in a hit-and-run crash last weekend, died from her injuries, her mother wrote in a Facebook post. | | | |
 Florida students made gains on the state's language arts exams this year compared with last and also posted better scores on standardized biology, civics and U.S. history tests, according to results released Friday by the Florida Department of Education.Students also showed improvement on many of Florida's math tests in 2019 compared with 2018. | | | |
 Scott Edward Nelson intended to kill Jennifer Fulford and eliminate her as a witness who could testify against him for kidnapping her, prosecutors argued Friday. Jurors heard closing arguments from both sides in the trial of Scott Edward Nelson, the man accused of killing and kidnapping the Altamonte Springs woman from her employer's home. | | | |
 Stephanie Murphy is a Democrat. Michael Waltz is a Republican. So they don't agree on much.But unlike partisan clashes that play out on Capital Hill and on network airwaves, the two Central Florida representatives say they've found a way to work together on several issues where they find common ground: election security, banning offshore oil drilling, the environment and other state issues.The two discussed a wide-range of issues Friday at the nonpartisan political club Tiger Bay — including their working relationship dating back two decades — held at Camping World Stadium's Varsity Club. | | | |
 The unusual sight of a black metal fence passing through a garage and over a swimming pool symbolizes a bitter property-line dispute near Boone High School.The 4-year tiff between a company backed by Bags Inc. founder Craig Mateer and financial giant Deutsche Bank is at a stalemate, with the fate of a 15-foot by 99-foot sliver — which includes some of a detached garage and part of a pool — up in the air.The battle has made its way to City Hall, with Mateer's RMS Investments proposing to split the lot he purchased from foreclosure and clearing the way for a home to be built. His request is to shave off the sliver to create a separate lot. | | | |
 The Lake County Sheriff's Office announced the arrests in recent days of 44 people in a drug sweep. Arrest warrants are out for 23 others. | | | |
 A new toll road that would link U.S. Highway 27 in Clermont to State Road 429 and Horizon West in west Orange County carries an estimated price-tag of $469.5 million. | | | |
 At Golden Tarot Ink Club on Saturday, visitors can adopt a cat and get a tattoo at the Winter Park shop during a special adoption event. | | | |
 Universal introduces theme park visitors to the new She-Ra character at Islands of Adventure in Orlando. | | | |
 The Orlando Magic are reportedly poised to offer Nikola Vucevic a four-year, $90 million deal with the hope of locking him in at the start of free agency Sunday afternoon. | | | |
 The United States women's national team players said nothing would distract them -- and it didn't. They were outpossessed and outshot, but the Americans finished their chances and are going on to meet England in the semifinals of the 2019 Women's World Cup. Megan Rapinoe scored both goals in the 2-1 victory over host France, played in front of a raucous announced crowd of 45,595 at Parc des Princes. | | | |
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