Start your day with a quick digest of today's top Central Florida headlines.
 A prosecutor told jurors the white man who fatally shot an unarmed black man after being shoved to the ground is a "vigilante" who carried a handgun because he liked provoking confrontations. |   | |
 Florida is going to have a rainy weekend, and it's thanks to thunderstorms that could turn into a tropical depression, while the National Hurricane Center tracks a tropical wave that could also form into the next named tropical storm. | | | |
 UCF leaders transferred more than $99 million in operating funds for capital projects over an eight-year period, a violation of state rules, and mislead the Board of Trustees about the expenditures, according to an investigation ordered by the state university system. | | | |
 The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services is looking for a space to house 500 unaccompanied children somewhere in a wide swath of Central Florida. Parts of Orange, Seminole, Osceola, Volusia, Lake, Sumter and Polk counties are in the location area. | | | |
 Orange County Animal Services is asking for help from Central Florida pet rescue groups after authorities last week removed from the back of a box truck 88 cats, whose owners planned to release them into the wild, an Animal Services spokesperson said. | | | |
 After a Good Samaritan filmed a Central Florida woman stuffing an emaciated dog into the trunk of her car and driving away, deputies were able to find her and take her to jail, the sheriff's office said. | | | |
 Professor Pigskin makes his season predictions for the Gators, UCF, FSU, Miami, Jaguars, Bucs and Dolphins. | | | |
 When No. 17 UCF takes the field Thursday during its season opener against Florida A&M at Spectrum Stadium, the Knights do so with a deep and talented running backs group. | | | |
 Check out Orlando area high school Week 1 football scores. | | | |
 A year after news outlets excitedly reported lights on inside the Majesty Building, a behemoth skyscraper in Altamonte Springs that's been under construction since 2001 known as the Eyesore on I-4, the owner says there is still no official opening date. | | | |
 In a guest column, two major donors to the Dr. Phillips Center and Orlando Ballet say the arts community in Orlando is "house poor," building a dream house without a clear and fair plan to raise the funds to pay for it. | | | |
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