{"id":231308,"date":"2026-04-14T14:44:11","date_gmt":"2026-04-14T14:44:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/231308\/"},"modified":"2026-04-14T14:44:11","modified_gmt":"2026-04-14T14:44:11","slug":"the-scoop-thurs-apr-14-2026-tampa-bay-and-florida-headlines-by-wmnf","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/231308\/","title":{"rendered":"The Scoop: Thurs. Apr. 14, 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-257047 size-257047 wp-post-image\" alt=\"WMNF The Scoop\" large=\"\" decoding=\"async\"  \/><\/p>\n<p>Ybor City celebrates 140th anniversary<\/p>\n<p>Hundreds came out to celebrate the historic neighborhood\u2019s .<\/p>\n<p>Detainees were assaulted and pepper-sprayed at Alligator Alcatraz<\/p>\n<p>New court filings show that guards at the detention center pepper-sprayed and assaulted detainees.<\/p>\n<p>Tampa Hope opens 100 new cottages<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wmnf.org\/tampa-hopes-new-cottages-will-help-upwards-of-400-people\/\" type=\"link\" id=\"https:\/\/www.wmnf.org\/tampa-hopes-new-cottages-will-help-upwards-of-400-people\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Tampa Hope<\/a> opened these cottages as part of its rehabilitation program for the homeless.<\/p>\n<p>Driver\u2019s licenses will now show citizenship or legal status <\/p>\n<p>The new voting law that starts in 2027 will require driver\u2019s licenses and ID cards to show the holders\u2019 citizenship and legal status.<\/p>\n<p>Florida launches new AP U.S. History class<\/p>\n<p>The new college-level course was created under the Florida Advanced Course and Test program.<\/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":"Ybor City celebrates 140th anniversary Hundreds came out to celebrate the historic neighborhood\u2019s . Detainees were assaulted and&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":49891,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[3120,88013,33690,16665,30415,135,103585,137,136,416,19123,10364],"class_list":{"0":"post-231308","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tampa","8":"tag-alligator-alcatraz","9":"tag-drivers-licenses","10":"tag-fact","11":"tag-local-government","12":"tag-news-and-public-affairs","13":"tag-tampa","14":"tag-tampa-bay-homeless","15":"tag-tampa-headlines","16":"tag-tampa-news","17":"tag-the-scoop","18":"tag-wmnf-88-5-fm","19":"tag-ybor-city"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231308","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=231308"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231308\/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=231308"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=231308"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=231308"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}