{"id":205525,"date":"2026-03-25T14:32:09","date_gmt":"2026-03-25T14:32:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/205525\/"},"modified":"2026-03-25T14:32:09","modified_gmt":"2026-03-25T14:32:09","slug":"the-scoop-wed-mar-25-2026-tampa-bay-and-florida-headlines-by-wmnf","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/205525\/","title":{"rendered":"The Scoop: Wed. Mar. 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-255793 size-255793 wp-post-image\" alt=\"WMNF The Scoop\" large=\"\" decoding=\"async\"  \/><\/p>\n<p>Democrat Brian Nathan won the election for the Senate<\/p>\n<p>Democrat\u00a0Brian Nathan, a union leader and U.S. Navy Veteran, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wmnf.org\/democrat-brian-nathan-wins-special-election-florida-senate-seat-hillsborough-news\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">won the special election<\/a> yesterday to fill a state Senate seat in Hillsborough County.<\/p>\n<p>Two other special elections wrapped up yesterday<\/p>\n<p>In Polk County, Republican Hilary Holley defeated Democrat Edwin Perez, and in the Palm Beach County House District, Democrat Emily Gregory won.<\/p>\n<p>The Tampa Bay CMTA is holding a walk to raise funds and awareness<\/p>\n<p>The Tampa Bay chapter of the Charcot-Marie-Tooth Association is holding a walk at MacFarlane Park to raise awareness and funds for CMT, a rare neurological disease with no cure.<\/p>\n<p>Candidate for Governor, Paul Renner, calls for a federal ban on Muslim immigration<\/p>\n<p>Paul Renner backed enforcing limits on Sharia law in courts and cutting school funding tied to it, and stricter state action against what he describes as \u201cradical Islam.\u201d<\/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.\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":"Democrat Brian Nathan won the election for the Senate Democrat\u00a0Brian Nathan, a union leader and U.S. Navy Veteran,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":49891,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[47499,94359,22654,94360,30415,6870,36512,77414,135,137,136,416,19123],"class_list":["post-205525","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tampa","tag-2026-elections","tag-cmta","tag-florida-governors-race","tag-muslim-ban","tag-news-and-public-affairs","tag-special-election","tag-state-government","tag-state-senate","tag-tampa","tag-tampa-headlines","tag-tampa-news","tag-the-scoop","tag-wmnf-88-5-fm"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205525","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=205525"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205525\/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=205525"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=205525"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=205525"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}