{"id":222058,"date":"2026-04-07T15:06:11","date_gmt":"2026-04-07T15:06:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/222058\/"},"modified":"2026-04-07T15:06:11","modified_gmt":"2026-04-07T15:06:11","slug":"the-scoop-tues-apr-7-2026-tampa-bay-and-florida-headlines-by-wmnf","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/222058\/","title":{"rendered":"The Scoop: Tues. Apr. 7, 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-256657 size-256657 wp-post-image\" alt=\"WMNF The Scoop\" large=\"\" decoding=\"async\"  \/><\/p>\n<p>Juvenile Welfare Board of Pinellas County chooses new CEO<\/p>\n<p>The decision came amidst concerns of political pressure interfering with the vote.<\/p>\n<p>The Tampa Bay Rays are playing at Tropicana Field once again<\/p>\n<p>This is their first time back at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wmnf.org\/rays-are-back-at-renovated-tropicana-field-for-sold-out-home-opener\/\" type=\"link\" id=\"https:\/\/www.wmnf.org\/rays-are-back-at-renovated-tropicana-field-for-sold-out-home-opener\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Tropicana Field<\/a> since Hurricane Milton damaged the stadium in 2024.<\/p>\n<p>Talbot House relocation appeal has been approved<\/p>\n<p>Lakeland City commissioners voted 5 to 2 and approved Talbot House Ministries\u2019 request for an appeal hearing.<\/p>\n<p>Nonprofit \u201cFoodtique\u201d tackles food desert in Progress Village<\/p>\n<p>Foodtique is looking into new partnerships with Hillsborough County due to rising food costs and demands. <\/p>\n<p>A new music venue is coming to Ybor City<\/p>\n<p>The venue will have 4,300 seats and will open in late 2028.<\/p>\n<p>A cold front is coming to Tampa Bay <\/p>\n<p>There may be up to an inch and a half of rain over <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wmnf.org\/cold-front-way-rain-and-slightly-lower-temperatures-wmnf-news\/\" type=\"link\" id=\"https:\/\/www.wmnf.org\/cold-front-way-rain-and-slightly-lower-temperatures-wmnf-news\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">five days<\/a>, but no severe weather is expected.<\/p>\n<p>The Scoop: Tampa Bay &amp; Florida headlines by WMNF<\/p>\n<p>The Scoop, produced by Sofia Caballero.<\/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":"Juvenile Welfare Board of Pinellas County chooses new CEO The decision came amidst concerns of political pressure interfering&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":49891,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[19428,100604,16665,30415,1718,596,135,3815,137,136,416,19123,10364],"class_list":{"0":"post-222058","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tampa","8":"tag-cold-weather","9":"tag-lakeland-county-commission","10":"tag-local-government","11":"tag-news-and-public-affairs","12":"tag-nonprofit","13":"tag-pinellas-county","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","20":"tag-ybor-city"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222058","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=222058"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222058\/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=222058"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=222058"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=222058"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}