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Rayniah Jones, a track & field star at UCF, is hoping to make it through the Olympic trials for the Tokyo games. NBC 6’s Amanda Plasencia reports

19-year-old track and field athlete Rayniah Jones is hoping to head to the Tokyo Olympics to compete in hurdles.

The former wife of Amazon founder Jeff Bezos has donated $40 million each to two state universities in Florida

Dillon Gabriel threw for 408 yards and four touchdowns to help No. 13 Central Florida beat East Carolina 51-28 to open its American Athletic Conference schedule

Dillon Gabriel threw for a career-best 417 yards and four touchdowns to lead No. 14 Central Florida to a 49-21 victory over Georgia Tech in the Knights’ season opener

Florida’s 12 public universities are given the green light to welcome students and faculty back to campus in the fall

The University of Central Florida has suspended Kappa Sigma fraternity after a member complained of “rigorous hazing” that included pledges being forced to smoke marijuana and drink entire bottles of alcohol.

The rankings were produced by the financial website WalletHub, which considered factors such as student-faculty ratio, graduation rate and post-attendance median salary.

Here are some of last week’s top stories from the NBC 6 Weekend Digest:

Scientists say Hurricane Dorian washed out to sea more than 8,000 sea turtle nests from a Florida wildlife refuge.

Although Hurricane Dorian skirted by Florida with hardly any damage, it still cost the Sunshine State money.

Hurricane Dorian is losing strength as it churns closer to the Florida coast, and that’s bringing some cautious relief to the state’s big tourism industry.

The former member’s complaints this July stemmed from a group text in which sorority sisters spoke about how to get around underage drinking restrictions, purchasing and selling prescription pills along with members being paid to complete assignments for others in the sorority.

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The site, which promotes what they call “relationships on your terms” between members, released the latest numbers in an effort to showcase the issues of rising tuition prices and student loan debt.

Here are some of the top stories of the past week for the NBC 6 Weekend Digest: