{"id":232815,"date":"2026-04-15T15:00:10","date_gmt":"2026-04-15T15:00:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/232815\/"},"modified":"2026-04-15T15:00:10","modified_gmt":"2026-04-15T15:00:10","slug":"the-scoop-wed-apr-15-2026-tampa-bay-and-florida-headlines-by-wmnf","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/232815\/","title":{"rendered":"The Scoop: Wed. Apr. 15, 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-257148 size-257148 wp-post-image\" alt=\"WMNF The Scoop\" large=\"\" decoding=\"async\"  \/><\/p>\n<p>Country music festival relocated to protect wildlife<\/p>\n<p>The permit for a country music festival in St. Pete Beach was denied, and the event was relocated to Coachman Park in downtown Clearwater to avoid impacting wildlife resources.<\/p>\n<p>Pinellas County School District cuts teaching positions for the fall<\/p>\n<p>Pinellas County School District expects the decline in student enrollment to continue, cutting 250 teaching positions and marking the second year in a row that it has had to cut staff.<\/p>\n<p>Nonprofit 360 Eats addresses food waste in Pinellas County<\/p>\n<p>Eats 360 uses leftovers from local grocery stores and farms to serve roughly 800 meals a week in the back of Clearwater\u2019s Trinity Baptist Church, aiming to reduce food waste and insecurity in Pinellas County.<\/p>\n<p>Two Florida executions scheduled for April<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wmnf.org\/two-executions-set-for-april\/\" type=\"link\" id=\"https:\/\/www.wmnf.org\/two-executions-set-for-april\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Two executions<\/a> are set to take place before the end of the month, bringing the total this year to 6.<\/p>\n<p>No expansion for KidCare insurance despite dropped lawsuit <\/p>\n<p>Despite the approved expansion of Florida\u2019s low-cost health insurance program KidCare, many parents still pay hundreds of dollars monthly while their children may qualify for it.<\/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":"Country music festival relocated to protect wildlife The permit for a country music festival in St. Pete Beach&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":49891,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[408,113,18231,3535,6584,6740,29878,30415,15848,135,137,136,416,13835,19123],"class_list":{"0":"post-232815","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tampa","8":"tag-death-penalty","9":"tag-education","10":"tag-florida-execution","11":"tag-food-insecurity","12":"tag-health-care","13":"tag-health-insurance","14":"tag-kidcare","15":"tag-news-and-public-affairs","16":"tag-pinellas-county-schools","17":"tag-tampa","18":"tag-tampa-headlines","19":"tag-tampa-news","20":"tag-the-scoop","21":"tag-wildlife-conservation","22":"tag-wmnf-88-5-fm"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/232815","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=232815"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/232815\/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=232815"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=232815"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=232815"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}