{"id":397083,"date":"2026-09-11T17:48:11","date_gmt":"2026-09-11T17:48:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/397083\/"},"modified":"2026-09-11T17:48:11","modified_gmt":"2026-09-11T17:48:11","slug":"the-scoop-fri-sep-11-2026-tampa-bay-and-florida-headlines-by-wmnf","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/397083\/","title":{"rendered":"The Scoop: Fri. Sep. 11, 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\/2026\/09\/1789148891_302_The-Scoop-color-2048x2048-1.jpg\" class=\"attachment-266441 size-266441 wp-post-image\" alt=\"WMNF The Scoop\" large=\"\" decoding=\"async\"  \/><\/p>\n<p>Federal Prosecutors withdraw appeal for Tampa Journalist Timothy Burke\u2019s potential wiretapping charge<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\" id=\"h-florida-s-primary-election-is-tomorrow\">Federal prosecutors withdrew an appeal this week that could have charged Tampa journalist Timothy Burke with wiretapping.<\/p>\n<p>Lakeland City Council votes to increase penalties for drought control violations<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This week, Lakeland city council voted unanimously for increased financial penalties for people who violate watering restrictions.<\/p>\n<p>Remembering 9\/11 with FDNY EMT Stephen Spelman<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\" id=\"h-florida-s-primary-election-is-tomorrow\">Friday marks 25 years since the September 11 terrorist attacks. Nearly three thousand people died.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Scoop, produced by Jaila Harrigan<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">WMNF anchors Juanita Hurtado Hu\u00e9rfano, Se\u00e1n Kinane, Lisa Marzilli, Hannah Lau Gleciano, Megan Fair.<br \/>WMNF News Director Se\u00e1n Kinane<br \/>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.<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 the News Service of Florida, the Associated Press, and Florida Public Media was used in this report<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Federal Prosecutors withdraw appeal for Tampa Journalist Timothy Burke\u2019s potential wiretapping charge Federal prosecutors withdrew an appeal this&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":397084,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[51700,31783,525,7154,16665,30415,158237,135,137,136,416,158238,417],"class_list":["post-397083","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tampa","tag-9-11","tag-american-history","tag-drought","tag-lakeland","tag-local-government","tag-news-and-public-affairs","tag-september-11th","tag-tampa","tag-tampa-headlines","tag-tampa-news","tag-the-scoop","tag-tim-burke","tag-wmnf-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/397083","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=397083"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/397083\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/397084"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=397083"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=397083"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=397083"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}