Start your day with a quick digest of today's top Central Florida headlines.
 housands gathered in cities and towns around Central Florida to protest police violence following the killing of George Floyd by a Minneapolis police officer, including hundreds in Sanford, often considered the birthplace of the Black Lives Matter movement. |   | |
 Universities are investigating students' racist social media posts, prompting debates about free speech. UF announced this week that a prospective student wasn't enrolling because of racist online writings. | | | |
 There are now 73,552 confirmed cases of coronavirus reported statewide. It's the first time since the outbreak began that more than 2,000 cases have been reported in one day. | | | |
 Orlando Police have arrested a suspect after a shooting that wounded a 5-year-old girl on Saturday morning at Windsor Cove Apartments on Mercy Drive. | | | |
 These days, news travels with the split-second click of a "send" button, but when the Civil War ended 155 years ago, it could sometimes take months or even years for life-changing news to reach across the continent. That's the reason an important anniversary this week, celebrating the end of slavery in the United States, dates not to 1863, when President's Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation became official on Jan. 1, but to June 19, 1865 — the day more than two years later when the news of emancipation reached Galveston, Texas, and perhaps the last enslaved people in the United States to learn they had been freed. | | | |
 The Fort Lauderdale police officer who is under investigation for shoving a protester filed an Internal Affairs complaint against the fellow cop who pulled him off the protester and publicly chastised him. | | | |
 "We continue to warm on the long term and in any given month we're likely to be knocking on the door, close to a record in the era that we're in," NOAA climate monitoring chief Deke Arndt said. | | | |
 A 53-year-old Lakeland woman faces a DUI manslaughter charge following the death of a passenger in her car during a two-vehicle crash that occurred Sunday on U.S. 98 in Lakeland. | | | |
 The Orlando Magic are worried less about their opponents and more about sharpening their conditioning and physical preparation as they wait to find out who their eight regular-season opponents will be when the NBA season resumes. | | | |
 2023 cornerback Jordan Castell of West Orange is already drawing recruiting attention. | | | |
 College football coaches better get used to players using their voices to speak out against injustice. | | | |
 Dale Earnhardt Jr. retired from Cup Series racing in 2017. But the driver who had 260 top-10 finishes and 26 wins over his decades on the Cup Series still races sporadically on the Xfinity Series, roughly once per year, if only to dip his toe back in the water. | | | |
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