Start your day with a quick digest of today's top Central Florida headlines.
 Former Orlando Sentinel editor Charles Fishman spoke with the Sentinel about his book recently published by Simon & Schuster: "One Giant Leap: The Impossible Mission That Flew Us to the Moon." Technologically and culturally, the race to the moon helped create the world we live in today, Fishman said. |   | |
 A video posted Saturday on Youtube appears to show a group of officers at the Lake Correctional Institution near Clermont beating an inmate on the prison's lawn.The five-minute video, filmed July 8 though a window screen by an unidentified inmate, led Mark Inch, the newly appointed secretary of the Florida Department of Corrections, to condemn the violence in a statement to a Jacksonville reporter who posted it Saturday night on Twitter. Inch said prison staff who were involved could face criminal charges. | | | |
 It's Shark Awareness Day on July 14 and there are several ways to experience the ancient aquatic creatures up close in Central Florida. | | | |
 A 29-year-old Orlando man died early Saturday morning after the SUV he was driving crashed into a water-filled ditch along State Road 429 near Winter Garden.The victim, identified as Jacob Peters, was driving a 2007 Honda SUV traveling north on the toll road about 3:10 a.m., according to a Florida Highway Patrol crash report.He lost control of the vehicle, which crossed the grass median and southbound lanes of the divided toll road before overturning in a ditch, troopers said. | | | |
 Puerto Rico's Gov. Ricardo Rosselló announced Saturday that his chief financial officer and secretary of state will step down following their participation in a private chat that used profanities to describe an ex-New York City official and a federal control board overseeing the island's finances. | | | |
 For the state of Florida, adapting to climate change is going to be complicated, revolutionary and very, very expensive. A report from the Florida Climate Reporting Network. | | | |
 Nassau County emergency officials say a teen girl was bitten by a shark off Amelia Island while vacationing from South Florida. | | | |
 El Sentinel won two first-place awards, and the Orlando Sentinel and El Sentinel also took home six second-place awards and five third-place awards, competing with the largest newspapers in the state. | | | |
 How long will UCF quarterback Darriel Mack Jr. be sidelined due to his broken ankle? | | | |
 Tacko Fall's impressive NBA Summer League campaign came to an end on Saturday. | | | |
 Oh, Lake County, sweet land of racist history. Will you ever grow out of this nonsense? | | | |
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