{"id":168761,"date":"2026-02-25T15:54:09","date_gmt":"2026-02-25T15:54:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/168761\/"},"modified":"2026-02-25T15:54:09","modified_gmt":"2026-02-25T15:54:09","slug":"the-scoop-wed-feb-25-2026-tampa-bay-and-florida-headlines-by-wmnf","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/168761\/","title":{"rendered":"The Scoop: Wed. Feb. 25, 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-254286 size-254286 wp-post-image\" alt=\"WMNF The Scoop\" large=\"\" decoding=\"async\"  \/><\/p>\n<p>The state cabinet approves land transfer to Hillsborough College for the Rays stadium<\/p>\n<p>Chris Young <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wmnf.org\/state-cabinet-approves-hillsborough-college-land-transfer-for-new-rays-stadium\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">reports <\/a>that as of yesterday, Hillsborough College is closer to being the next home of the Tampa Bay Rays.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The second execution was carried out amid lethal injection violation claims<\/p>\n<p>Melvin Trotter was executed last night, after the U.S. Supreme Court denied his request for a last-minute stay of execution.<\/p>\n<p>Judge dismisses complaint from former parks employee who leaked redevelopment plans<\/p>\n<p>James Gaddis wasn\u2019t eligible for whistleblower protections after he was fired for leaking redevelopment plans.<\/p>\n<p>Manatee County approves extension of Mosaic\u2019s mining permit<\/p>\n<p>Mosaic\u2019s mining permit would allow it to continue the mining operation for another 14 years.<\/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":"The state cabinet approves land transfer to Hillsborough College for the Rays stadium Chris Young reports that as&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":49891,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[408,2195,11286,7088,30415,36512,26729,135,137,136,416,19123],"class_list":{"0":"post-168761","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tampa","8":"tag-death-penalty","9":"tag-execution","10":"tag-hillsborough-community-college","11":"tag-manatee-county","12":"tag-news-and-public-affairs","13":"tag-state-government","14":"tag-state-parks","15":"tag-tampa","16":"tag-tampa-headlines","17":"tag-tampa-news","18":"tag-the-scoop","19":"tag-wmnf-88-5-fm"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168761","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=168761"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168761\/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=168761"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=168761"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=168761"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}