Start your day with a quick digest of today's top Central Florida headlines.
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Good Sunday morning. I'm Roger Simmons, the Sentinel's managing editor. I'm a native Floridian, and I love history – especially any connection to the Sunshine State. For example, yesterday was the 59th anniversary of astronaut John Glenn blasting off from Kennedy Space Center and becoming the first American to orbit Earth. Here's how we reported his feat on the front page of our Evening Star newspaper on the day of launch and the following morning in the Orlando Sentinel. There's an Amazon film out now called "One Night in Miami," which is set in 1964 on the night Cassius Clay defeated Sonny Liston for the heavyweight boxing title. We have a story about the setting for this movie, the historic Hampton House in Miami – one of the few city hotels where Black guests were welcome – and its fascinating history. If you're looking for some Central Florida history, Joy Wallace Dickinson's Florida Flashback column today notes a funeral in Orlando on May 3, 1926, and why it was so significant. Now, here's a look at some more recent history - today's other top stories…. Today in Orlando, it will be partly cloudy with a high of 71 and low of 53. Get hour-by-hour temperatures here. |
 Thousands of Floridians marched in the streets last summer calling for police reform and demanding racial equity, but early signs suggest little may happen in the Republican-led state legislature... |   | |
 At 101, Jose Ros was wary about getting the COVID-19 vaccine before health workers at the Orange County Convention Center shot it in his arm Friday. | | | |
 Democrats in Congress plan to use the $1.9 trillion COVID-19 relief bill to advance President Joe Biden's campaign promises to make affordable health care available to more Americans,... | | | |
 Democrats in Florida are indulging their favorite fantasy: the every-four-years discussion about how they can win the governor's election for the first time since 1994. Several prominent names are... | | | |
 Authorities say the woman posted videos about her Second Amendment gun rights after investigators had called her to ask whether she had been in the nation's capital on Jan. 6. | | | |
 The Tampa Bay Bucs might have moved 25 years ago if Orlando had agreed to build them a new stadium. | | | |
 As Orlando Magic rookie Chuma Okeke keeps growing his game on the court, his personality off the court continues to endear him to his teammates. | | | |
 Learn more about Bessie Coleman, the daring pilot and inspiration to youth, from her great-niece Gigi Coleman, in an online program March 8 presented by the Orange County Library System. | | | |
 COVID-19 has brought volatility to many economic sectors including real estate. The onset of the pandemic in spring 2020 brought the real estate market to a standstill, but it soon roared... | | | |
 Former Florida Gators and South Carolina Gamecocks head coach Steve Spurrier is letting go of his oceanfront vacation home. | | | |
 The former NASCAR driver's 3,306-square-foot Key West home went on the market about a year ago and was originally listed at $3.7 million. | | | |
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