{"id":220595,"date":"2026-04-06T14:46:13","date_gmt":"2026-04-06T14:46:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/220595\/"},"modified":"2026-04-06T14:46:13","modified_gmt":"2026-04-06T14:46:13","slug":"the-scoop-mon-apr-6-2026-tampa-bay-and-florida-headlines-by-wmnf","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/220595\/","title":{"rendered":"The Scoop: Mon. Apr. 6, 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-256596 size-256596 wp-post-image\" alt=\"WMNF The Scoop\" large=\"\" decoding=\"async\"  \/><\/p>\n<p>Tampa City Council approves land swap for Zion Cemetery<\/p>\n<p>Land containing unmarked graves of African Americans dating back to the early 1900\u2019s was just given to a nonprofit dedicated to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wmnf.org\/tampa-city-council-approves-land-swap-for-historic-black-cemetery\/\" type=\"link\" id=\"https:\/\/www.wmnf.org\/tampa-city-council-approves-land-swap-for-historic-black-cemetery\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">preserving the historic Zion Cemetery<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Pasco County takes students and their families to court for chronic absences<\/p>\n<p>The superintendent and school board in Pasco County hope that formal court orders involving students and parents will reduce chronic student absences and emphasize the importance of school.<\/p>\n<p>Pinellas County brings weapon detection systems to two high schools<\/p>\n<p>Beginning tomorrow, students at Gibbs High School and Palm Harbor University High School will go through weapon-detection checkpoints before entering campus.<\/p>\n<p>Stetson Law alumni coalition demands statement denouncing Pam Bondi<\/p>\n<p>Stetson Law alumni coalition called on the university to denounce Pam Bondi and recind her awards for what they called an \u201cembarrassing\u201d handling of the Epstein files. <\/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":"Tampa City Council approves land swap for Zion Cemetery Land containing unmarked graves of African Americans dating back&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":49891,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[5705,100024,30415,411,1338,596,15849,100025,135,137,136,416,19123],"class_list":{"0":"post-220595","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tampa","8":"tag-african-american","9":"tag-african-american-cemeteries","10":"tag-news-and-public-affairs","11":"tag-pam-bondi","12":"tag-pasco-county","13":"tag-pinellas-county","14":"tag-school-safety","15":"tag-stetson-law","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\/220595","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=220595"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220595\/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=220595"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=220595"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=220595"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}