{"id":107745,"date":"2026-01-06T16:57:14","date_gmt":"2026-01-06T16:57:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/107745\/"},"modified":"2026-01-06T16:57:14","modified_gmt":"2026-01-06T16:57:14","slug":"the-scoop-tue-jan-6-2026-tampa-bay-and-florida-headlines-by-wmnf","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/107745\/","title":{"rendered":"The Scoop: Tue. Jan. 6, 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-251385 size-251385 wp-post-image\" alt=\"WMNF The Scoop\" large=\"\" decoding=\"async\"  \/><\/p>\n<p>A House Republican proposes repealing Florida\u2019s bump stock ban<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mypanhandle.com\/news\/florida\/florida-news\/bill-targets-bump-stock-ban\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">State Representative Toby Overdorf filed a proposal\u00a0(HB 6021)<\/a>\u00a0for consideration that would repeal\u00a0a ban on \u201cbump stocks\u201d that passed after the 2018 massacre at Parkland\u2019s Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School. Similar repeal bills were proposed in 2022 and 2025, but did not pass.<\/p>\n<p>Florida bills could restore the <a href=\"https:\/\/floridawildlifefederation.org\/ocklawaha-river\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Ocklawaha River<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Environmentalists have sought for decades to restore the Ocklawaha River, which was dammed to create a reservoir as part of the long-abandoned Cross Florida Barge Canal project. SB 1066 and HB 981 will be considered for the legislative session that starts next Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>Governor Ron DeSantis announced yesterday that he believes more detention space is needed. DeSantis said the decision depends on the U.S. Department of Homeland Security.<\/p>\n<p>Tampa\u2019s 113-year-old train station is getting a facelift. The renovation comes as the building, last renovated in the 90s, was seeing signs of wear and tear from termite damage, water leaks, and more.\u00a0 WMNF\u2019s Chris Young reports Union Station is set to begin a six-million-dollar renovation this year.<\/p>\n<p>Pipeline safety regulators have imposed their largest fine ever on the company responsible for leaking the oil into the Gulf of Mexico off the Louisiana coast in 2023. The National Transportation Safety Board said Third Coast failed to establish proper emergency procedures and did not adequately assess risks.<\/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 Lisa Reuter.<\/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":"A House Republican proposes repealing Florida\u2019s bump stock ban State Representative Toby Overdorf filed a proposal\u00a0(HB 6021)\u00a0for consideration&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":49891,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[55002,100,1841,30415,55176,55177,412,36512,135,137,136,55178,416,417],"class_list":["post-107745","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tampa","tag-bump-stocks","tag-florida-legislature","tag-immigration","tag-news-and-public-affairs","tag-ocklawaha-river","tag-oil-spills","tag-ron-desantis","tag-state-government","tag-tampa","tag-tampa-headlines","tag-tampa-news","tag-tampas-union-station","tag-the-scoop","tag-wmnf-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107745","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=107745"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107745\/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=107745"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=107745"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=107745"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}