Start your day with a quick digest of today's top Central Florida headlines.
 Nearly 2,500 American soldiers died in World War II's D-Day battles in 1944, and 22-year-old Capt. John C. Raaen Jr. was lucky not to be one of them. Now 97 and a widower, Raaen who commanded a company of Army Rangers on bloody Omaha Beach that day, plans to take in 75th-anniversary ceremonies on the French coast to remember those who fought in the risky invasion that led to the liberation of France from Nazi control and ultimately to an Allied victory in Europe. |   | |
 As D-Day was unfolding 75 years ago in Europe, here's how the Orlando Morning Sentinel reported the invasion of Europe. Read our newspaper pages from June 6, 1944. | | | |
 The 75th anniversary of D-Day marks a pivotal moment in history, but sadly most people have no clue what happened on June 6, 1944, columnist David Whitley says. | | | |
 From the Winter Park History Museum, a memory of a Winter Park woman whose husband was one of the commanding generals for the D-Day invasion. The general befriended a dog in France, and it remained with him throughout. He had to leave the dog behind, but his troops smuggled it back to the states on a transport. The dog lived with the general and his wife in Winter Park until its death. | | | |
 Universal Orlando's refusal to tell the public what happened after its Volcano Bay water-park guests were hospitalized was a bad PR move, making a weird story worse, Sentinel columnist Scott Maxwell writes. | | | |
 Cruise lines are shifting itineraries and making plans for those who already have booked trips to Cuba in the wake of the Trump administration banning of cruise ship travel to the country. | | | |
 Plans to redevelop an historic school site in Eatonville have fallen through again. So now the Orange County school district will once more try to sell the nearly 100-acre site, hoping for a developer that can boost the town's tax base and honor its history as the nation's first incorporated black municipality. | | | |
 Orange County Mayor Jerry Demings helped break ground Wednesday on a 96-unit affordable-housing complex for low-income seniors in Pine Hills near Evans High School. The $18-million project, partially funded with federal and state money, promises relief for Pine Hills' "rent-burdened" seniors when it's completed late next year. | | | |
 Three years after Orlando's darkest hour, the community is paying tribute to the 49 people killed in the Pulse nightclub shooting and the tragedy's survivors with art, music, acts of kindness and a 4.9-kilometer run. The week of tribute and remembrance opens Saturday with the third annual 4.9K CommUNITY Rainbow Run, a benefit for the onePULSE Foundation. | | | |
 Tiger Woods and the PGA Tour shouldn't criticize Hank Haney for borderline sexist comments when they were silent during the fight to open Augusta National to women, Sentinel columnist Mike Bianchi writes. | | | |
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