{"id":197801,"date":"2026-03-19T14:09:09","date_gmt":"2026-03-19T14:09:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/197801\/"},"modified":"2026-03-19T14:09:09","modified_gmt":"2026-03-19T14:09:09","slug":"the-scoop-thurs-mar-19-2026-tampa-bay-and-florida-headlines-by-wmnf","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/197801\/","title":{"rendered":"The Scoop: Thurs. Mar. 19, 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-255523 size-255523 wp-post-image\" alt=\"WMNF The Scoop\" large=\"\" decoding=\"async\"  \/><\/p>\n<p>Tampa\u2019s MacDill Air Force Base lifts its shelter-in-place order<\/p>\n<p>On Tuesday, MacDill began operating under a higher security level. The FBI says a suspicious package found at MacDill on Monday contains possible energetic materials.<\/p>\n<p>Florida executes its fourth prisoner of the year<\/p>\n<p>The case was taken again to the U.S. Supreme Court for allegations of injection protocol violations.<\/p>\n<p>\u2018<a href=\"https:\/\/www.wmnf.org\/film-documenting-the-conservative-takeover-of-new-college-plays-at-sxsw-heads-back-to-florida\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">First They Came For Our College<\/a>\u2019 \u2013 a film follows the conservative takeover of New College of Florida<\/p>\n<p>The film tracks the restructuring of the school in Sarasota, starting with Governor Ron DeSantis\u2019s appointment of six conservative trustees in 2023.<\/p>\n<p>Psilocybin from \u201cmagic mushrooms\u201d can be used to treat depression and anxiety. The University of South Florida study has moved into clinical trials.<\/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 Chris Young, Juanita Hurtado Hu\u00e9rfano, Se\u00e1n Kinane, Lisa Marzilli.\u00a0<br \/>WMNF News Director Se\u00e1n Kinane<br \/>WMNF reporters Chris Young, Juanita Hurtado Hu\u00e9rfano, Lisa Marzilli, Se\u00e1n Kinane, Sofia Caballero<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":"Tampa\u2019s MacDill Air Force Base lifts its shelter-in-place order On Tuesday, MacDill began operating under a higher security&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":49891,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[408,100,37633,91685,12179,30415,6436,135,137,136,416,1537],"class_list":["post-197801","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tampa","tag-death-penalty","tag-florida-legislature","tag-macdill-afb","tag-mushrooms","tag-new-college-of-florida","tag-news-and-public-affairs","tag-psilocybin","tag-tampa","tag-tampa-headlines","tag-tampa-news","tag-the-scoop","tag-usf"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197801","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=197801"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197801\/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=197801"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=197801"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=197801"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}