Start your day with a quick digest of today's top Central Florida headlines.
 Florida's governor declared a state of emergency as Hurricane Dorian is forecast to be a Category 3 storm at landfall this weekend. |   | |
 The Orlando Sentinel and Fox 35 Orlando will be giving live updates from media days leading up to Thursday's grand opening of Star Wars: Galaxy's Edge at Walt Disney World. | | | |
 With Hurricane Dorian barreling toward Florida, FSU and Boise State need to move or cancel their game scheduled to be played Saturday night in Jacksonville. | | | |
 UCF quarterback McKenzie Milton was voted the greatest Knight in school history by Orlando Sentinel readers. | | | |
 Flesh-eating bacteria claimed 50 lives last year. Victims' families say Florida should do more to alert visitors of the danger | | | |
 UCF promised Wednesday to replace all the state money it improperly spent on construction projects and told state leaders it would "rise above the last year" and the spending scandal that dogged it. | | | |
 Orlando Mayor Buddy Dyer and Orange County Mayor Jerry Demings came out on the losing end of a heated debate over how the board that controls Orlando International Airport will hire its next general counsel and another firm to study the airport's practices for awarding contracts. | | | |
 A spokesman for TSA would not definitely say whether the Star Wars land's soda cans shaped like thermal detonators are banned from carry-on or checked bags. | | | |
 Apopka Fire Chief Chuck Carnesale, a part of the Fire Department since 1983 when he was 13 and served as a "student explorer," announced Wednesday he is retiring.His decision to step down Friday followed a city request for the Florida Department of Law Enforcement to look into problems with National EMS Billing, a company which held a contract to collect bills from patients treated by the city's emergency medical service. Apopka has sued the company, also known as NEB, alleging fraud, breach of contract and unjust enrichment.Emergency medical services are part of the Fire Department. FDLE spokeswoman Gretl Plessinger said investigators were awaiting documents to start a probe. He signed off in an email to firefighters, writing, "I will never forget you and will continue to pray for your safety and the safety of our citizens of this great city of Apopka. May God bless you all." | | | |
 AdventHealth unveiled Mission Control, a 12,000-square-foot, $20 million high-tech center that has been a year in the making. With wall-to-wall screens that are updated every three to five seconds, the center keeps track of every patients who's at one of the health system's nine hospitals in Central Florida, is about to be transferred there, or is being discharged. | | | |
 An Orlando woman who sued Chase bank after it misplaced her $100,000 in valuables — and lost — found her items again years later being auctioned off by the state of Florida. | | | |
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