{"id":433094,"date":"2026-10-20T15:38:10","date_gmt":"2026-10-20T15:38:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/433094\/"},"modified":"2026-10-20T15:38:10","modified_gmt":"2026-10-20T15:38:10","slug":"the-scoop-tue-oct-20-2026-tampa-bay-and-florida-headlines-by-wmnf","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/433094\/","title":{"rendered":"The Scoop: Tue. Oct. 20, 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\/10\/1792510690_736_The-Scoop-color-2048x2048-1.jpg\" class=\"attachment-268729 size-268729 wp-post-image\" alt=\"WMNF The Scoop\" large=\"\" decoding=\"async\"  \/><\/p>\n<p>At campaign stop, Ashley Moody says she still won\u2019t debate Angie Nixon<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\" id=\"h-florida-s-primary-election-is-tomorrow\">U.S. Representative Anna Paulina Luna stated that Nixon was calling for Moody to be jailed because she would lose a debate against Moody. Moody has refused Nixon\u2019s calls for a debate, following her involvement in the Hope Florida scandal. <\/p>\n<p>Rays advance to World Series<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\" id=\"h-longtime-st-petersburg-home-with-deep-connections-to-the-city-s-arts-and-literary-community-is-officially-a-local-historic-landmarkyesterday-the-st-petersburg-city-council-voted-unanimously-to-designate-the-meinke-house-as-a-local-historical-landmark-the-home-sits-at-the-intersection-of-two-distinct-creative-legacies-with-architect-and-builder-of-the-home-mark-dixon-dodd-s-and-florida-poet-laureate-peter-meinke-and-his-wife-artist-and-illustrator-jeanne-meinke-the-house-exemplifies-the-traditions-of-a-cultural-city-of-the-arts\">The Rays clinched the American League Championship with a 7 to 3 victory over the Cleveland Guardians last night at Tropicana Field. The Rays will head to Milwaukee to face the Brewers for the start of the World series on Friday. Neither team has won a World Series title yet. <\/p>\n<p>Republican Party of Florida says repeating Hope Florida information is illegal<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Republican Party of Florida has filed a lawsuit claiming that the grand jury\u2019s report and its findings became contraband on Oct. 7, when a state appeals court ordered the report erased. The party also requested that the Florida Department of Law Enforcement and prosecutors investigate the media stations.<\/p>\n<p>Florida to execute 18th prisoner this year<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Today, Florida is set to carry out the execution of 77 year-old William Reaves, who was sentenced to death after being convicted of first-degree murder for the 1986 shooting of Indian River County Deputy Richard Raczkowski. This year, Florida has outpaced the rest of the country in executions. <\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Scoop, produced by Kayleigh Fuller<\/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":"At campaign stop, Ashley Moody says she still won\u2019t debate Angie Nixon U.S. Representative Anna Paulina Luna stated&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":433095,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[18523,3853,408,1384,16665,30415,135,3815,137,136,416,417],"class_list":["post-433094","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tampa","tag-angie-nixon","tag-ashley-moody","tag-death-penalty","tag-hope-florida","tag-local-government","tag-news-and-public-affairs","tag-tampa","tag-tampa-bay-rays","tag-tampa-headlines","tag-tampa-news","tag-the-scoop","tag-wmnf-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/433094","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=433094"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/433094\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/433095"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=433094"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=433094"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=433094"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}