{"id":165754,"date":"2026-02-23T16:13:09","date_gmt":"2026-02-23T16:13:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/165754\/"},"modified":"2026-02-23T16:13:09","modified_gmt":"2026-02-23T16:13:09","slug":"the-scoop-mon-feb-23-2026-tampa-bay-and-florida-headlines-by-wmnf","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/165754\/","title":{"rendered":"The Scoop: Mon. Feb. 23, 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-254159 size-254159 wp-post-image\" alt=\"WMNF The Scoop\" large=\"\" decoding=\"async\"  \/><\/p>\n<p>FBI releases report about increased cases of domestic violence<\/p>\n<p>This month, the FBI reported that from 2020 to 2024, aggravated assault was the violent crime most likely to involve someone the victim knew in a domestic relationship.<\/p>\n<p>Two invasive subterranean termites are spreading across Florida<\/p>\n<p>Leah Burdick <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wmnf.org\/two-invasive-termites-continue-to-spread-across-florida\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">reports <\/a>on where the termites have been found and what homeowners can do now to protect their properties.<\/p>\n<p>Hillsborough County\u2019s \u201cStreet Legal\u201d program brings the public defender\u2019s office to neighborhoods<\/p>\n<p>The \u201cStreet Legal\u201d program includes tables with lawyers from the public defender\u2019s office, social workers, investigators, and community service groups.<\/p>\n<p>The Board of Education approves changes to the controversial School of Hope law<\/p>\n<p>The School of Hope law allows certain charter schools to co-locate at under-capacity public schools, and allows districts to charge charter school operators for added costs.<\/p>\n<p>The Scoop: Tampa Bay &amp; Florida headlines by WMNF<\/p>\n<p>The Scoop, produced by Mackenzie Queen.<\/p>\n<p>WMNF anchors Chris Young, Juanita Hurtado Hu\u00e9rfano, Se\u00e1n Kinane, Lisa Marzilli, Josh Holton, Randi Zimmerman.\u00a0<br \/>WMNF News Director Se\u00e1n Kinane<br \/>WMNF reporters Chris Young, Juanita Hurtado Hu\u00e9rfano, Lisa Marzilli, Se\u00e1n Kinane, Leah Burdick, Sofia Caballero, 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":"FBI releases report about increased cases of domestic violence This month, the FBI reported that from 2020 to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":49891,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[31054,5713,113,1563,629,4615,30415,78922,135,137,136,416,19123],"class_list":{"0":"post-165754","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tampa","8":"tag-board-of-education","9":"tag-domestic-violence","10":"tag-education","11":"tag-environment","12":"tag-hillsborough","13":"tag-invasive-species","14":"tag-news-and-public-affairs","15":"tag-public-defender","16":"tag-tampa","17":"tag-tampa-headlines","18":"tag-tampa-news","19":"tag-the-scoop","20":"tag-wmnf-88-5-fm"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165754","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=165754"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165754\/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=165754"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=165754"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=165754"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}