{"id":214567,"date":"2026-04-01T14:28:10","date_gmt":"2026-04-01T14:28:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/214567\/"},"modified":"2026-04-01T14:28:10","modified_gmt":"2026-04-01T14:28:10","slug":"the-scoop-wed-apr-1-2026-tampa-bay-and-florida-headlines-by-wmnf","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/214567\/","title":{"rendered":"The Scoop: Wed. Apr. 1, 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-256310 size-256310 wp-post-image\" alt=\"WMNF The Scoop\" large=\"\" decoding=\"async\"  \/><\/p>\n<p>Opioid overdoses cut down 46% in Tampa Bay<\/p>\n<p>The Live Tampa Bay initiative has been partnering with grassroots programs to reduce opioid addiction-related death, intending to cut opioid overdoses in half. That goal is now closer than ever, with a 46.6% reduction.<\/p>\n<p>Hillsborough County commission to discuss sales tax to pay for Tampa Bay Rays stadium<\/p>\n<p>Commissioner Gwen Myers is asking the county\u2019s attorney if Hillsborough\u2019s half-cent sales tax can be used to pay for a county-owned stadium ahead of the Rays\u2019 plans to build a new stadium.<\/p>\n<p>James Duckett was not executed yesterday<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wmnf.org\/execution-on-hold-for-former-police-officer-on-sentenced-to-death\/\" type=\"link\" id=\"https:\/\/www.wmnf.org\/execution-on-hold-for-former-police-officer-on-sentenced-to-death\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">decision not to execute James Duckett<\/a>, a former police officer convicted of sexual battery and murder, comes after the Florida Supreme Court refused to lift the stay of execution it granted.<\/p>\n<p>A federal investigation report on a 2024 plane crash in Clearwater was released<\/p>\n<p>The 2024 plane crash killed the pilot and two people inside a mobile home, and was caused by a compartment fire due to a partially loose fuel hose.<\/p>\n<p>Florida Department of Education to update rules on religious holidays<\/p>\n<p>State officials will hold a public workshop next Tuesday to cover rules on excused absences for religious instruction and holidays.<\/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":"Opioid overdoses cut down 46% in Tampa Bay The Live Tampa Bay initiative has been partnering with grassroots&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":49891,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[1339,2195,9932,16665,30415,97884,135,3815,137,136,416,19123],"class_list":{"0":"post-214567","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tampa","8":"tag-clearwater","9":"tag-execution","10":"tag-florida-department-of-education","11":"tag-local-government","12":"tag-news-and-public-affairs","13":"tag-opioid-addiction","14":"tag-tampa","15":"tag-tampa-bay-rays","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\/214567","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=214567"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214567\/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=214567"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=214567"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=214567"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}