Start your day with a quick digest of today's top Central Florida headlines.
 Florida's coronavirus death toll surpassed 1,000 as the health department reported another 33 deaths Friday afternoon. The state now has 30,533 cases and 1,046 fatalities. |   | |
 Orange County is past the peak of new coronavirus cases, officials said Friday afternoon, citing four weeks of declines in the number of confirmed cases and signaling a new phase toward the region's recovery from the pandemic that shuttered schools, theme parks, restaurant dining rooms and many businesses. | | | |
 The process to file for Florida unemployment benefits has angered thousands. Here's what Universal is doing to try and help its furloughed employees. | | | |
 Halsey Beshears, Secretary of the Florida Department of Business and Professional Regulation, suggested barbershops and salons could reopen – at least those in counties with relatively fewer confirmed cases - if strict guidelines are in place for sanitation of the businesses, employees and customers. | | | |
 Orlando's International Drive empty, eerie as coronavirus looms | | | |
 Florida's unemployment website will be down for three days beginning Friday, the longest shutdown of the system so far as the state tries to catch up with payments for jobless Floridians. | | | |
 Some of Orlando's small businesses, kneecapped by the fallout from the coronavirus pandemic, could soon get a sprinkling of new customers and cash. City officials are preparing tweaks to how it funds its popular Main Street Districts like Audubon Park, Mills 50 and The Milk District, accelerating the arrival of the city dollars they were due to receive over the next few months. | | | |
 An Oviedo couple from Puerto Rico -- Sonia Ivelisse Goveo and Ruben Merced -- were married for more than 46 years. This month they died a week apart of complications from COVID-19. Their son is currently in serious condition. | | | |
 Texas' attorney general has accused the nation's largest egg producer, Cal-Maine Foods, of price gouging during the coronavirus pandemic. The Mississippi-based company has 42 egg-producing facilities in 15 states. | | | |
 UCF star Adrian Killins enters final day of NFL draft eager to prove he compete at the pro level. | | | |
 Florida Gators wide receiver Van Jefferson is headed to Los Angeles Rams, who selected him with the 57th pick in 2020 NFL draft. | | | |
 Jace Prescott, the older brother of Dallas Cowboys quarterback Dak Prescott, died Thursday, the team said. He was 31. | | | |
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