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An appeals court rejects a challenge to invalidate recreational marijuana signatures<\/p>\n
The Smart & Safe Florida political committee is trying to submit enough petition signatures by a February 1 deadline to put the pot proposal on the November ballot. It filed an emergency motion Sunday for the full appeals court to consider the case.<\/p>\n
DeSantis signs another death warrant<\/p>\n
Melvin Trotter is scheduled to be executed on February 24 and could be the second inmate put to death by lethal injection next month.<\/p>\n
A cop is charged with killing a dog<\/p>\n
Former Bartow police officer Edwin Campuzano<\/a> turned himself in to the Hillsborough County Sheriff\u2019s office this month. He is charged with poisoning his girlfriend\u2019s dog.<\/p>\n Taxpayers can go to various locations in Hillsborough, Pinellas, Manatee, Sarasota and DeSoto counties to have their federal tax return prepared, e-filed, and their refund direct-deposited.<\/p>\n A federal judge will hear arguments on whether to pause the buildup of armed government officers in Minnesota<\/p>\n Saturday\u2019s shooting by a Border Patrol officer of Alex Pretti in Minnesota has only added urgency to the case.<\/p>\n The Scoop: Tampa Bay & Florida headlines by WMNF<\/p>\n The Scoop, produced by Mackenzie Queen and Se\u00e1n Kinane.<\/p>\n WMNF anchors Se\u00e1n Kinane, Chris Young, Lisa Marzilli, Josh Holton, Randi Zimmerman.\u00a0 Theme music, Fresh06, by Stian via archive.org \u2013 CC-BY-NC-SA 2.5 information from News Service of Florida, the Associated Press and Florida Public Media was used in this report<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"An appeals court rejects a challenge to invalidate recreational marijuana signatures The Smart & Safe Florida political committee…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":49891,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[408,1877,48594,30415,21249,412,65059,135,137,136,8527,416,19299,19123],"class_list":{"0":"post-132237","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tampa","8":"tag-death-penalty","9":"tag-ice","10":"tag-irs","11":"tag-news-and-public-affairs","12":"tag-recreational-marijuana","13":"tag-ron-desantis","14":"tag-state-politics","15":"tag-tampa","16":"tag-tampa-headlines","17":"tag-tampa-news","18":"tag-taxes","19":"tag-the-scoop","20":"tag-united-way","21":"tag-wmnf-88-5-fm"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132237","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=132237"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132237\/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=132237"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=132237"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=132237"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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