Start your day with a quick digest of today's top Central Florida headlines.
 Florida's LGBTQ civil rights leaders praised Monday's watershed U.S. Supreme Court ruling declaring job discrimination against gay and transgender workers illegal — but quickly added that the move is only one step in a longer battle for full equality. |   | |
 Facing the sharp reality of a scenario public officials warned about — rapidly rising new cases of the coronavirus as Central Florida's economy reopens — Orange County Mayor Jerry Demings wrestled Monday with how to intervene and prevent infections from overwhelming hospitals. | | | |
 A 49-year-old man suspected in the killings of two women in Tallahassee, including 19-year-old activist Oluwatoyin Salau, was arrested Sunday in Orange County, according to records. | | | |
 Industry lobbyists are circulating a plan in Congress and at the White House that would dangle $4,000 tax breaks in front of Americans to get them to begin traveling and spending money at hotels, theme parks and other tourism businesses. | | | |
 A federal judge has refused to put on hold his decision allowing hundreds of thousands of Florida felons who have completed prison or jail sentences to register and vote in this year's elections. | | | |
 Florida coronavirus cases climbed to 77,326 total with an additional 1,758 infections reported Monday while the death toll climbed seven to 2,938. | | | |
 Orange County performed better on its third attempt to hand out $1,000 coronavirus relief checks to families on Monday morning, but the portal for people to apply for the money was still open less than an hour. | | | |
 Florida-based Spirit Airlines has jumped ahead of competitors, at least with publicity, announcing at Orlando's airport that a surge underway now and several more in coming weeks will send scores of parked aircraft back into service. | | | |
 After new video surfaced online, Orlando police have issued arrest warrants for two people involved in a fight at Millenia Mall earlier this month that caused chaos when loud noises were confused for gunfire. | | | |
 Universal Studios theme park opens new 'Bourne Stuntacular' show. | | | |
 A gate at the Art & History Museums - Maitland was destroyed on June 14. | | | |
 Olympia High football player Jalen Myers is urging others to take COVID-19 seriously after it killed his great grandmother and infected other family members. | | | |
 Orlando City players took the pitch Monday and played competitive soccer for the first time since March. | | | |
 Macaulay Culkin ruled the box office in "Home Alone." "Twin Peaks" had people asking, "Who Killed Laura Palmer?" The Berlin Wall came down and the Hubble Space Telescope launched into space. See what else happened in 1990. | | | |
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