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A Winter Haven pastor is charged with three felony counts of lewd battery of a minor<\/p>\n
The Polk County Sheriff\u2019s Office says it has arrested 42-year-old Timothy Chaneyfield. He is a pastor at St. James United American Free Will Baptist Church in Winter Haven. He told detectives that he is also a chaplain for Compassionate Care Hospice of Lakeland.<\/p>\n
Tampa Electric customers have seen their bills skyrocket by 81% over the past five years<\/p>\n
That number is from a recent report from the nonprofit Food and Water Watch. WMNF\u2019s Juanita Hurtado Huerfano reports that advocates gathered outside TECO\u2019s headquarters last month<\/a>.<\/p>\n Frontrunners for Florida governor get state funds<\/p>\n The Republican and Democratic gubernatorial frontrunners continue to be the top recipients of state money for their campaigns. Democrat David Jolly, a former member of Congress, picked up nearly $73,000 dollars and Republican Congress member Byron Donalds received almost $60,000 on Friday in the third round of public financing for the 2026 election cycle. Jolly has now received nearly $1.6 million from the funding program and Donalds nearly $790,000. Republican Lieutenant Governor Jay Collins is the only other gubernatorial candidate to receive the funds..<\/p>\n Tips for reducing heat stress for pets<\/p>\n The hot weather is not only a threat for humans, but also for our pets. WMNF\u2019s Luiza Campos reports on ways to reduce the chance of heat deaths in pets.<\/p>\n The Scoop, produced by Se\u00e1n Kinane<\/p>\n WMNF anchors Juanita Hurtado Hu\u00e9rfano, Se\u00e1n Kinane, Lisa Marzilli, Hannah Lau Gleciano, Megan Fair. Theme music, Fresh06, by Stian via archive.org \u2013 CC-BY-NC-SA 2.5 Information from the News Service of Florida, the Associated Press, and Florida Public Media was used in this report<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A Winter Haven pastor is charged with three felony counts of lewd battery of a minor The Polk…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":49891,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[47499,2715,147598,357,30415,2965,147599,135,137,136,22355,416,417],"class_list":["post-363064","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tampa","tag-2026-elections","tag-elections","tag-food-water-watch","tag-heat-stress","tag-news-and-public-affairs","tag-pets","tag-polk-sheriff","tag-tampa","tag-tampa-headlines","tag-tampa-news","tag-teco","tag-the-scoop","tag-wmnf-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/363064","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=363064"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/363064\/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=363064"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=363064"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=363064"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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WMNF reporters Juanita Hurtado Hu\u00e9rfano, Lisa Marzilli, Se\u00e1n Kinane, Daria Mironova, Megan Fair, Luiza Medeiros de Campos, Hannah Lau Gleciano, Joeniyah Carter, Jaelin Diehl.
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