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Manatee County launches investigation after families find 17 gravesites vandalized in an historic cemetery<\/p>\n
The cemetery is 120 years old and is tightly associated with the local Black community. Officers found the words \u201cTrump\u201d and \u201cRon DeSantis\u201d spray-painted on some graves, while others were damaged and the headstones broken.<\/p>\n
USDA now requires retailers accepting food stamps to carry more \u201creal\u201d food<\/a><\/p>\n Stores must now carry seven varieties of items across four categories of staple foods: protein, grains, dairy, and fruits and vegetables.<\/p>\n People have until Friday to weigh in on the EPA rolling back regulations on toxic gas found in Temple Terrace<\/p>\n The plant didn\u2019t have filters to prevent the odorless gas, ethylene oxide from leaking into the community.<\/p>\n Hillsborough County seems unlikely to take over an HOA\u2019s private water system<\/p>\n Sunset Manor in Lutz asked the county to take over its 450-foot well, built in the 1980s. It needs maintenance and repairs that will cost these 21 households about $150,000.<\/p>\n Senator Ed Hooper questions funding for Rays\u2019 stadium proposal<\/p>\n The Senate\u2019s budget chair told reporters for the Tampa Bay Times that the state should not allocate any money for the Rays\u2019 stadium proposal until the team reaches an agreement with Hillsborough and Tampa.<\/p>\n The Scoop: Tampa Bay & Florida headlines by WMNF<\/p>\n The Scoop, produced by Se\u00e1n Kinane.<\/p>\n WMNF anchors Chris Young, Juanita Hurtado Hu\u00e9rfano, Se\u00e1n Kinane, Lisa Marzilli.\u00a0 Theme music, Fresh06, by Stian via archive.org \u2013 CC-BY-NC-SA 2.5 information from News Service of Florida, the Associated Press and Florida Public Media was used in this report<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Manatee County launches investigation after families find 17 gravesites vandalized in an historic cemetery The cemetery is 120…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":49891,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[17724,100,410,276,7088,30415,29208,414,135,137,136,8609,416],"class_list":["post-269525","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tampa","tag-cemetery","tag-florida-legislature","tag-food-stamps","tag-hillsborough-county","tag-manatee-county","tag-news-and-public-affairs","tag-rays-stadium","tag-snap","tag-tampa","tag-tampa-headlines","tag-tampa-news","tag-temple-terrace","tag-the-scoop"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/269525","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=269525"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/269525\/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=269525"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=269525"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=269525"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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