{"id":266766,"date":"2026-05-11T16:18:12","date_gmt":"2026-05-11T16:18:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/266766\/"},"modified":"2026-05-11T16:18:12","modified_gmt":"2026-05-11T16:18:12","slug":"the-scoop-mon-may-11-2026-tampa-bay-and-florida-headlines-by-wmnf","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/266766\/","title":{"rendered":"The Scoop: Mon. May 11, 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-258954 size-258954 wp-post-image\" alt=\"WMNF The Scoop\" large=\"\" decoding=\"async\"  \/><\/p>\n<p>The SPLC pleads not guilty to federal fraud charges<\/p>\n<p>The Southern Poverty Law Center is charged with eleven counts involving the use of paid informants in extremist groups. But the rights group accuses the U.S. Department of Justice of a political prosecution.<\/p>\n<p>On Earth Day, Governor Ron DeSantis signed into law a bill stopping local governments\u2019 climate change efforts. But now, the future of Tampa\u2019s extensive Climate Action and Equity Plan is up in the air. We hear from WMNF\u2019s Chris Young about how this could impact the city.<\/p>\n<p>Turbo Babies was created to foster early connections, nurture babies\u2019 drive to learn and support parents. At Pinellas libraries they offer \u201cpit crew bags,\u201d a free bag with a book, a toy and teaching tips for parents.<\/p>\n<p>Tonight and tomorrow, the Courtney Campbell will close overnight<\/p>\n<p>The Courtney Campbell Causeway will close overnight Monday (May 11) and Tuesday (May 12). According to FDOT, all travel lanes of State Road 60 in both directions between Hillsborough and Pinellas Counties will close those two nights from 10:00 p.m. until 5:00 a.m., weather permitting. Alternate routes are State Road 580 \u2013 Hillsborough Avenue and U.S. 19 and I-275 \u2013 the Howard Frankland Bridge.<\/p>\n<p>The Scoop: Tampa Bay &amp; Florida headlines by WMNF<\/p>\n<p>The Scoop, produced by Se\u00e1n Kinane.<\/p>\n<p>WMNF anchors Chris Young, Juanita Hurtado Hu\u00e9rfano, Se\u00e1n Kinane, Lisa Marzilli.\u00a0<br \/>WMNF News Director Se\u00e1n Kinane<br \/>WMNF reporters Chris Young, Juanita Hurtado Hu\u00e9rfano, Lisa Marzilli, Se\u00e1n Kinane, Sofia Caballero, Zoe Sax, Daria Mironova<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":"The SPLC pleads not guilty to federal fraud charges The Southern Poverty Law Center is charged with eleven&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":49891,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[5885,97630,2345,1644,61089,30415,11387,412,5495,135,137,136,416,1798,13400],"class_list":["post-266766","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tampa","tag-climate-change","tag-courtney-campbell-causeway","tag-fdot","tag-housing","tag-libraries","tag-news-and-public-affairs","tag-parenting","tag-ron-desantis","tag-southern-poverty-law-center","tag-tampa","tag-tampa-headlines","tag-tampa-news","tag-the-scoop","tag-transportation","tag-west-tampa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/266766","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=266766"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/266766\/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=266766"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=266766"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=266766"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}