Start your day with a quick digest of today's top Central Florida headlines.
 Two UCF professors accused of helping student to fraudulently obtain PhD, deny allegations and fight to keep their jobs. |   | |
 Police pension board members voted unanimously Thursday to grant disability retirement to Orlando police Officer Alison Clarke, promising a life-long pension for the officer who developed post-traumatic stress disorder following the Pulse massacre. | | | |
 An LGBTQ advocacy rebuked Florida officials on Thursday for misrepresenting its research on discrimination in public and private schools in their defense of the state's voucher programs, which sent more than $129 million last year to private campuses with anti-gay policies. | | | |
 Orange County Property Appraiser Rick Singh has sued two high-ranking former employees, alleging in a lawsuit one secretly recorded calls and private meetings and both kept tabs on him with a tracking device "in a stalking-like manner..." even after they were fired. Both former employees had filed a whistle-blower suit against Singh in 2018 that is still pending. | | | |
 Central Florida cyclists learned they are not above the law when 18-year-old Javier Lopez was arrested for pedaling through a stop sign. But the Seminole County deputy who did it needs a lesson in judgment. | | | |
 Environmentalists are praising a plan to use hotel taxes to help clean and preserve springs, rivers, lakes and coasts. But tourism businesses like Disney are fighting the idea. | | | |
 A new preschool in Orlando, The Morgan Center, has opened especially for children battling cancer, whose immune systems are compromised. Free to any such child referred by his or her doctor, the facility has strict hygiene protocols — and the goal of giving kids back a part of their childhood. | | | |
 A kitchen commissary planned for near Orlando's Camping World Stadium could be a delivery-only ghost kitchen concept backed by Uber founder Travis Kalanick. | | | |
 Looking for a job? Universal is hiring 1,500 full-time, part-time and seasonal jobs. | | | |
 President Donald Trump will be the grand marshal of the Daytona 500 Sunday. | | | |
 Joey Logano and William Byron each won his respective Daytona Duel race Thursday night at Daytona International Speedway, earning spots in the second row for Sunday's Daytona 500. | | | |
 Enzian Theater in Maitland is giving renovations plans another try, two years after it pulled the plug on a $6.5 million expansion. | | | |
 Orlando Sentinel Columnist Shannon Green concludes her 14-year-career with the newspaper on Friday. | | | |
 Amtrak offers two-for-one tickets for Valentine's Day weekend. | | | |
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