{"id":244907,"date":"2026-04-24T15:57:12","date_gmt":"2026-04-24T15:57:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/244907\/"},"modified":"2026-04-24T15:57:12","modified_gmt":"2026-04-24T15:57:12","slug":"the-scoop-fri-apr-24-2026-tampa-bay-and-florida-headlines-by-wmnf","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/244907\/","title":{"rendered":"The Scoop: Fri. Apr. 24, 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-257867 size-257867 wp-post-image\" alt=\"WMNF The Scoop\" large=\"\" decoding=\"async\"  \/><\/p>\n<p>Three Republicans qualify to oppose Sen. Ashley Moody in the August primary<\/p>\n<p>Moody\u2019s competition consists of Republican candidates Neelam Taneja Perry, Chris Gleason, and Ernie Rivera, along with Democrat Alex Vindam. The primary election will be held on August 18th.<\/p>\n<p>West Florida specific hurricane forecast calls for two major storms<\/p>\n<p>University of South Florida\u2019s Sarasota-Manatee campus revealed the hurricane forecast specifically for Florida\u2019s west coast.<\/p>\n<p>Hillsborough County tells the Rays it can\u2019t meet the team\u2019s stadism deadline<\/p>\n<p>Hillsborough County has told the Tampa Bay Rays that it is unlikely to meet the 2029 deadline for the completion of the stadium deal.<\/p>\n<p>Wildfires worsen in the eastern US<\/p>\n<p>Climate disruption and droughts have caused nastier wildfires in the eastern half of the United States<\/p>\n<p>Bolts face challenges heading to Montreal playoffs<\/p>\n<p>The Tampa Bay Lightning defeated the Montreal Canadiens 3-2 in overtime in Game 2.<\/p>\n<p>The Scoop: Tampa Bay &amp; Florida headlines by WMNF<\/p>\n<p>The Scoop, produced by Alyssa Fraser.<\/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":"Three Republicans qualify to oppose Sen. Ashley Moody in the August primary Moody\u2019s competition consists of Republican candidates&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":49891,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[14371,17378,16665,30415,135,137,136,416,69605,19123],"class_list":{"0":"post-244907","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tampa","8":"tag-air-quality","9":"tag-cair-florida","10":"tag-local-government","11":"tag-news-and-public-affairs","12":"tag-tampa","13":"tag-tampa-headlines","14":"tag-tampa-news","15":"tag-the-scoop","16":"tag-wildfire","17":"tag-wmnf-88-5-fm"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/244907","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=244907"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/244907\/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=244907"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=244907"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=244907"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}