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USF St. Pete says some frozen samples may be recoverable from the marine sciences building fire<\/p>\n
Researchers at\u00a0University of South Florida\u00a0say some frozen marine samples damaged in the recent fire at the St. Pete marine sciences building may still be recoverable<\/a>. Scientists are continuing to assess the damage while working to preserve years of valuable environmental research. \u00a0<\/p>\n St. Pete Beach institutes a living seawalls program<\/p>\n St. Pete Beach\u00a0is launching a new living seawalls program aimed at reducing flooding and shoreline erosion using natural barriers and eco-friendly designs. The project will help waterfront homeowners create more resilient coastlines while improving marine habitats. \u00a0<\/p>\n Indian Rocks Beach charges for parking <\/p>\n Indian Rocks Beach\u00a0has officially started charging visitors for parking at public beach access points<\/a> as part of a six-month pilot program. Officials say the new system is designed to help manage traffic, beach crowds, and maintenance costs. \u00a0<\/p>\n Express lanes are now open on the southbound Howard Frankland Bridge<\/p>\n New express lanes are now open on the southbound\u00a0Howard Frankland Bridge, giving drivers a faster option when traveling between Tampa and St. Petersburg. Transportation officials hope the new lanes will ease congestion along one of the region\u2019s busiest commuter routes. \u00a0<\/p>\n Creative Loafing raises funds for public records request<\/p>\n Creative lofting Tampa Bay\u00a0has launched a fundraising effort to help cover the cost of public records requests through a new journalism-themed beer campaign. Proceeds from the initiative will support local investigative reporting and transparency efforts in the Tampa Bay area.\u00a0<\/p>\n The Scoop: Tampa Bay & Florida headlines by WMNF<\/p>\n The Scoop, produced by Demaria Green and 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":"USF St. Pete says some frozen samples may be recoverable from the marine sciences building fire Researchers at\u00a0University…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":49891,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[17284,7808,100,42799,27392,30415,554,135,137,136,416,3650],"class_list":["post-289107","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tampa","tag-creative-loafing","tag-department-of-transportation","tag-florida-legislature","tag-howard-frankland-bridge","tag-indian-rocks-beach","tag-news-and-public-affairs","tag-science","tag-tampa","tag-tampa-headlines","tag-tampa-news","tag-the-scoop","tag-university-of-south-florida"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/289107","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=289107"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/289107\/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=289107"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=289107"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=289107"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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