It’s Thursday, August 6th and here are today’s top headlines from the newsroom of the South Florida Sun Sentinel. I’m Kristie McIntyre. More than a half-million people in Florida have tested positive for COVID-19, as the state remains second only to California, according to official infection numbers. Florida, the third most populous state in the U.S., now has 502,739 cases after reporting another 5,409 COVID-19 cases Wednesday.