Start your day with a quick digest of today's top Central Florida headlines.
 Gov. Ron DeSantis ordered an investigation Monday into what went wrong with the $77 million unemployment compensation system that has struggled to pay hundreds of thousands of Floridians who lost their jobs because of the coronavirus pandemic. |   | |
 Monday was the first day restaurants were allowed to reopen their dining rooms after Gov. Ron DeSantis announced restaurants and retailers across much of the state could operate at 25% capacity indoors. | | | |
 Even before the coronavirus pandemic sparked an economic implosion, some 350,000 Central Florida working households — and a third of those statewide — were barely able to make ends meet, a new United Way report finds. And that doesn't include the roughly 13 percent of households that were living in poverty. | | | |
 When Beverly Seay took over the board that oversees UCF, a top objective for one of the nation's largest universities was to move past a painful political episode that led to the resignation of a president who had only been in the post for eight months. Now, nearly a year later, it's too early to know what Seay's lasting mark on UCF will be. But she has swiftly laid the groundwork for a new era just in time for another major crisis to hit the sprawling campus east of Orlando: severe economic consequences brought by the coronavirus pandemic. | | | |
 OUC is the worst among the state's major utilities in providing low-income households with basic ways to reduce electricity usage and lower their bills, according to the Southern Alliance for Clean Energy, which, with Earthjustice legal assistance, is urging state officials to demand that Orlando Utilities Commission strengthen its programs supporting low-income customers to be in line with Florida's other large utilities. | | | |
 Health data measuring coronavirus infection rates and emergency room visits for covid-19 symptoms is trending in the right direction, medical experts said Monday morning. "All the current data indicates we're in good shape," said Dr. Raul Pino, director of the state Health Department in Orange County. | | | |
 Nonprofits throughout Central Florida are hoping a new online donation drive this week — Giving Tuesday Now — can bolster bottom lines battered by the coronavirus pandemic. The event, better known for its post-Thanksgiving counterpart to Black Friday, comes May 5. Here's how to help. | | | |
 Born in the small town of Porto Empedocle, Sicily, in 1940, Ada Ficarra died April 26 at Sonata West, an assisted living facility in Winter Garden where she had lived since 2018. | | | |
 In these chaotic coronavirus times, people need reassurance their way of life isn't totally lost. A big slice of American life is fast food, and nobody has been delivering it more efficiently and cheerfully than Chick-fil-A. What makes a drive-through worker tick? The company won't exactly say, so we tried to find out on our own. | | | |
 Don Shula was the Father of Florida Football, giving residents all over the Sunshine State a professional sports team we could finally and proudly call our own. | | | |
 Carnival Cruise Line announced plans to resume some cruising starting August 1 including sailing from Florida's Port Canaveral and PortMiami. | | | |
 Images of Florida specialty license plates that have gone through redesigns over the years. | | | |
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