{"id":330826,"date":"2026-07-06T16:14:12","date_gmt":"2026-07-06T16:14:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/330826\/"},"modified":"2026-07-06T16:14:12","modified_gmt":"2026-07-06T16:14:12","slug":"the-scoop-mon-july-6-2026-tampa-bay-and-florida-headlines-by-wmnf","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/330826\/","title":{"rendered":"The Scoop: Mon. July 6, 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-262994 size-262994 wp-post-image\" alt=\"WMNF The Scoop\" large=\"\" decoding=\"async\"  \/><\/p>\n<p>Manatee County enacts a burn ban<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Manatee County enacts a countywide burn ban on account of continuing drought conditions.<\/p>\n<p>Most Americans feel that democratic freedoms are in danger<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A new survey reveals that seven in ten Americans believe democratic freedoms are in danger.<\/p>\n<p>A new sixth division has been created in the 10th Judicial Court System in Polk County<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It will consolidate family law cases into a new family law section. This is mean to consequently reduce wait time for hearings and take case load off judges.<\/p>\n<p>Cindy Stuart will face Aileen Rodriguez in the Democratic primary for Hillsborough Commission, District 7<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\" id=\"h-\">The winner will then face Republican Hillsborough County Commissioner Joshua Wostal next month.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Independent Ybor music venue Crowbar is set to close at the end of July. Meanwhile, local filmmakers are currently creating a documentary about the venue titled \u201cThe Man Behind the Crowbar\u201d.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Scoop, produced by Maeleigh Fricke<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">WMNF anchors Chris Young, Juanita Hurtado Hu\u00e9rfano, Se\u00e1n Kinane, Lisa Marzilli.<br \/>WMNF News Director Se\u00e1n Kinane<br \/>WMNF reporters Chris Young, Juanita Hurtado Hu\u00e9rfano, Lisa Marzilli, Se\u00e1n Kinane, Sofia Caballero, Daria Mironova, Megan Fair, Luiza Medeiros de Campos, Hanna Lau, Joeniyah Carter, Jaelin Diehl.<br \/>Special thanks to Taylor Lovejoy and Corey Beltran.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">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":"Manatee County enacts a burn ban Manatee County enacts a countywide burn ban on account of continuing drought&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":49891,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[11751,34873,136590,3753,8219,4113,136591,525,2715,21352,136592,32495,16665,7088,45336,5742,30415,1911,36512,65059,135,137,136],"class_list":["post-330826","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tampa","tag-american","tag-burn-ban","tag-cindy-stuart","tag-climate","tag-court","tag-crowbar-ybor","tag-district-7","tag-drought","tag-elections","tag-film","tag-hillsborough-county-commision","tag-justice-system","tag-local-government","tag-manatee-county","tag-national-government","tag-national-politics","tag-news-and-public-affairs","tag-polk-county","tag-state-government","tag-state-politics","tag-tampa","tag-tampa-headlines","tag-tampa-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/330826","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=330826"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/330826\/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=330826"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=330826"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=330826"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}