{"id":34417,"date":"2025-11-05T15:22:10","date_gmt":"2025-11-05T15:22:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/34417\/"},"modified":"2025-11-05T15:22:10","modified_gmt":"2025-11-05T15:22:10","slug":"the-scoop-wed-nov-5-2025-tampa-bay-and-florida-headlines-by-wmnf","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/34417\/","title":{"rendered":"The Scoop: Wed. Nov. 5, 2025 Tampa Bay and Florida headlines by WMNF"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/The-Scoop-color-1024x1024-1.jpg\" class=\"attachment-248364 size-248364 wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" large=\"\" decoding=\"async\"  \/><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tThe Scoop for Monday, Sept. 9, 2024.<\/p>\n<p>Death row inmate appeals to Florida Supreme Court<\/p>\n<p>Attorneys for Richard Barry Randolph seek to halt his execution scheduled for November 20th and appealed a circuit judge\u2019s ruling that rejected their arguments, one of which highlighted Randolph\u2019s lupus.<\/p>\n<p>Florida Public Service Commission approves rate hike for TECO customers<\/p>\n<p>WMNF\u2019S Chris Young <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wmnf.org\/florida-public-service-commission-approves-teco-rate-hikes-for-2026\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">reports<\/a> the average Tampa Electric Company (TECO) residential customer will pay $5.51 more each starting January.<\/p>\n<p>Mosaic makes $411 million profit in three months<\/p>\n<p>The Tampa Bay area fertilizer maker posted revenue of nearly three-and-a-half billion dollars over those three months.<\/p>\n<p>Disability rights groups challenge new Florida law<\/p>\n<p>The group says the new law, which allows pregnant women to use parking spaces reserved for people with disabilities, violates federal protections.<\/p>\n<p>Appeals court rejects request to block law that restricts people from China from buying property<\/p>\n<p>The judge said the plaintiffs did not have standing to challenge the part of the law that prevents people \u201cdomiciled\u201d in China from buying property in Florida as they are not domiciled in China themselves.<\/p>\n<p>Dems win big in Tuesday\u2019s elections<\/p>\n<p>Democratic socialist Zohran Mamdani won the mayoral election for New York City and will be the city\u2019s first Muslim, of South Asian heritage or born in Africa. Democrats also won governor\u2019s races in Virginia and New Jersey.<\/p>\n<p>The Scoop: Tampa Bay &amp; Florida headlines by WMNF<\/p>\n<p>The Scoop, produced by Asha Cope-Edwards, Joana Riva.<\/p>\n<p>WMNF anchors Se\u00e1n Kinane, Chris Young, Lisa Marzilli, Josh Holton, Randi Zimmerman.\u00a0<br \/>WMNF News Director Se\u00e1n Kinane<br \/>WMNF reporters Chris Young, Lisa Marzilli, Se\u00e1n Kinane, Zoe Sax, Julia Ferrara, Leah Burdick, 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":"The Scoop for Monday, Sept. 9, 2024. 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