Start your day with a quick digest of today's top Central Florida headlines.
Good morning. I'm Scott Maxwell, columnist with the Sentinel. I spend a lot of time writing about politics and especially enjoy sharing the stories that the politicians would rather keep secret. Today, though, I wrote something a little more personal – about my own family's struggle with dementia. My father – once a brilliant lawyer and hall-of-fame high school swim coach – is a shell of the man he used to be. That's why it really chafes me when people manufacture accusations of dementia-like some kind of schoolyard insult. We've seen a lot of that lately, so I penned this column: "My dad has dementia. Stop hurling it like a political insult." But we have a lot more going on in today's news – including Steve Lemongello and Richard Tribou offering a piece on Gov. Ron DeSantis arguing with the White House about COVID vaccinations. Also a heartbreaking story by Sentinel intern Hannah Phillips about how COVID is taking a deadly toll on a couple that has cared for hundreds of foster children. And Kevin Spear has the latest on the massive $2.4 billion overhaul of Interstate 4, which is behind schedule, over budget, and now facing accusations of mismanagement from a vendor on the project. Let's learn more together ... |
 Videos spreading across social media Tuesday afternoon showed an Osceola deputy body slamming a Liberty High School student to the ground, knocking her head onto the sidewalk and appearing to... |   | |
 The 62nd annual event will take place May 14-16 in downtown Winter Park. There will also be a virtual festival in March, which is when the event is typically held. | | | |
 A key subcontractor in the trouble-plagued reconstruction of I-4 in Central Florida alleges in a federal lawsuit that it should have been allowed to quit the job because it is such a... | | | |
 Orlando-based Darden, which has more than 1,815 restaurants, will offer hourly employees two hours of pay for each dose of the vaccine they receive, for up to four hours of compensation, CEO Gene... | | | |
 A pair of Florida GOP lawmakers are attempting to follow through on Gov. Ron DeSantis' push to punish Big Tech companies for purportedly censoring conservatives.Sen. Joe Gruters and Rep. Randy... | | | |
 The website allowing the public to sign up for the COVID-19 vaccine at Publix locations throughout the state will open again at 6 a.m. Wednesday and 6 a.m. Friday this week. | | | |
 Gene McDowell's legacy at UCF is complicated, but he deserves to be honored for saving the Knights' football program. | | | |
 UCF coach Josh Heupel reportedly is the leading candidate for the vacant Tennessee coaching job. | | | |
n this week's Disney at 50, we look back at a handful of attractions that were open in the early days of Magic Kingdom but were later repurposed (and sometimes re-repurposed) into other rides... | | | |
 When the curtain rises on CFCArts Theatre's "Songs for a New World" on Feb. 5, it won't be a run-of-the-mill opening night. For starters, the show is the first in-person production by... | | | |
 Check out your daily horoscope here, provided by Tarot astrologers. | | | |
 The Audubon Center for Birds of Prey in Maitland serves as a place of education, conservation and home to some raptors that can't return to the wild due to injuries. Bald eagles, hawks, owls... | | | |
 Multiple sources have confirmed through photo and video that Universal Orlando Resort's upcoming coaster, Jurassic World VelociCoaster, has begun testing the attraction with human riders. | | | |
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