Start your day with a quick digest of today's top Central Florida headlines.
 Hurricane Lorenzo is more than 2,500 miles away from Florida's East Coast, but the massive Category 3 hurricane is still set to send waves across the Atlantic this weekend. |   | |
 A Florida Highway Patrol trooper is dead after a crash Friday morning on State Road 408, according the FHP. | | | |
 An Orlando police deputy chief now must approve the arrest of any child under 12, the department announced Friday in response to widespread criticism after an officer last week arrested two 6-year-olds. | | | |
 DeSantis, who largely owes Trump for his come-from-behind victory in the GOP gubernatorial primary, went the furthest in pleading for donations to a Presidential Protection Fund in a Florida GOP email. "When I served in Congress, I fought back against the Democrats' witch hunts every single day," DeSantis states in the email. | | | |
 Jury selection began Friday morning at the Orange County Courthouse in the murder trial of Markeith Loyd, the man accused of fatally shooting his pregnant ex-girlfriend Sade Dixon nearly three years ago. Loyd, 43, could face execution if convicted of first-degree murder in the 2016 killing of 24-year-old Dixon and her unborn child. | | | |
 A 27-year-old Orlando woman died Friday afternoon in a two-vehicle accident on Semoran Boulevard near Baldwin Park, according to Florida Highway Patrol. | | | |
 The lieutenant for special operations, Locke oversaw patrol staff and community events. He was with Winter Park police for about 10 years. Before that he was with the Oak Park Police Department in Michigan outside Detroit for eight years and was a firefighter in Port Huron, Mich., for six years. He also was in the U.S. Army, Marcum said. | | | |
 Osceola County has the largest percentage of the Puerto Rican population — outside of the island — in the nation. An estimated 33.7% of its population identified as residents of Puerto Rican origin, according to the latest Census figures released Thursday. | | | |
 Motorists on Interstate 4 used to see a monument depicting the Iwo Jima flag-raising during World War II, then it disappeared. Whatever happened to the monument and the man who had it built? | | | |
 Celebrate Public Lands Day with free admission to national parks, volunteering or sharing your outdoor adventures on social media. | | | |
 Vote now in our reader poll: Should President Trump be impeached? | | | |
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