{"id":106384,"date":"2026-01-05T16:38:52","date_gmt":"2026-01-05T16:38:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/106384\/"},"modified":"2026-01-05T16:38:52","modified_gmt":"2026-01-05T16:38:52","slug":"the-scoop-mon-jan-5-2026-tampa-bay-and-florida-headlines-by-wmnf","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/106384\/","title":{"rendered":"The Scoop: Mon. Jan. 5, 2026 Tampa Bay and Florida headlines by WMNF"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"2048\" height=\"2048\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/The-Scoop-color-2048x2048-1.jpg\" class=\"attachment-251348 size-251348 wp-post-image\" alt=\"WMNF The Scoop\" large=\"\" decoding=\"async\"  \/><\/p>\n<p>Florida reaction to Trump\u2019s invasion of Venezuela<\/p>\n<p>About 40 people marched through Orlando\u2019s Mills 50 neighborhood Saturday to protest the military operation. SDS plans a Tampa Bay demonstration on January 17.<\/p>\n<p>Conservationists could seek to add bears to the federal threatened species list<\/p>\n<p>The Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission last week reported 52 bears were killed during the hunt last month. That\u2019s less than a third of the 172 bears that were permitted to be killed.<\/p>\n<p>A Florida bill to cover treatment for stuttering<\/p>\n<p>A new bill in the Florida Legislature would <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wmnf.org\/a-new-florida-bill-could-make-speech-therapy-for-stuttering-a-guaranteed-benefit\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">guarantee coverage for stuttering treatment in Medicaid<\/a>, private insurance, group health plans, and HMOs. The sponsor of the bill says if passed, it would help remove stigma against the condition.<\/p>\n<p>An appeals court says the Florida Department of Corrections isn\u2019t liable<\/p>\n<p>An appeals court last week shielded the Florida Department of Corrections from a lawsuit alleging that retaliation by officers led to an inmate getting raped. A three-judge panel of the 1st District Court of Appeal said the department is shielded by sovereign immunity from the lawsuit filed by an inmate.<\/p>\n<p>Florida tourism slightly up<\/p>\n<p>According to Visit Florida, this year\u2019s total was the most for a third quarter since 2022. It\u2019s generally considered one of the slower periods for Florida. There was an uptick in tourism even though Canadians continued to back off on travel to the U.S.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wmnf.org\/get-the-scoop\/\" class=\"btn -theme-primary\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Subscribe to The Scoop<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Scoop: Tampa Bay &amp; Florida headlines by WMNF<\/p>\n<p>The Scoop, produced by Se\u00e1n Kinane.<\/p>\n<p>WMNF anchors Se\u00e1n Kinane, Chris Young, Lisa Marzilli, Josh Holton, Randi Zimmerman.\u00a0<br \/>WMNF News Director Se\u00e1n Kinane<br \/>WMNF reporters Chris Young, Lisa Marzilli, Se\u00e1n Kinane, Zoe Sax, Leah Burdick, Josh Holton<br \/>Special thanks to Taylor Lovejoy and Corey Beltran.<\/p>\n<p>Theme music, Fresh06, by Stian via archive.org \u2013 CC-BY-NC-SA 2.5<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/archive.org\/details\/jamendo-001084\/02.mp3\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/archive.org\/details\/jamendo-001084\/02.mp3<\/a><br \/>The Scoop logo by Robin Milcowitz \/ Greener Pixels \/\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/greenerpixels.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">greenerpixels.com<\/a>\u00a0\/ WMNF<\/p>\n<p>information from News Service of Florida, the Associated Press and Florida Public Media was used in this report<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Florida reaction to Trump\u2019s invasion of Venezuela About 40 people marched through Orlando\u2019s Mills 50 neighborhood Saturday to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":49891,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[31789,409,100,2365,30415,412,5364,202,204,203,199,201,200,416,1316,4390,417],"class_list":["post-106384","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-st-petersburg","tag-bear-hunting","tag-donald-trump","tag-florida-legislature","tag-international","tag-news-and-public-affairs","tag-ron-desantis","tag-sean-kinane","tag-st-pete","tag-st-pete-headlines","tag-st-pete-news","tag-st-petersburg","tag-st-petersburg-headlines","tag-st-petersburg-news","tag-the-scoop","tag-tourism","tag-venezuela","tag-wmnf-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106384","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=106384"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106384\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/49891"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=106384"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=106384"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=106384"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}