{"id":440626,"date":"2026-10-28T16:56:13","date_gmt":"2026-10-28T16:56:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/440626\/"},"modified":"2026-10-28T16:56:13","modified_gmt":"2026-10-28T16:56:13","slug":"the-scoop-wed-oct-28-2026-tampa-bay-and-florida-headlines-by-wmnf","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/440626\/","title":{"rendered":"The Scoop: Wed. Oct. 28, 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\/1793206573_463_The-Scoop-color-2048x2048-1.jpg\" class=\"attachment-269161 size-269161 wp-post-image\" alt=\"WMNF The Scoop\" large=\"\" decoding=\"async\"  \/><\/p>\n<p>Citrus County votes to allow CoreCivic to negotiate ICE contract<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Yesterday, Citrus County votes to allow CoreCivic to negotiate a contract for housing ICE detainees. This comes as CoreCivic is under scrutiny for multiply misconduct allegations. The agreement will determine costs and requirements for Citrus County to house immigration detainees at the Lecanto jail. Any futher proposals will need to be voted on by commissioners. \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Tampa\u2019s Barrio Latino commission delays a final vote on a proposed music venue<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\" id=\"h-florida-s-primary-election-is-tomorrow\">Developer Darryl Shaw has spent years working on a development project called Gasworx that would span 18 city blocks in West Ybor with mixed commercial and residential buildings. The most controversial of those buildings has been the proposed 4,300-capacity concert venue in Ybor City\u2019s historic district. The venue would be operated by booking company Live Nation, which in April was found to operate as an illegal monopoly that stifles competition and drives up ticket prices. Tyler Hudson, a representative of the project, initially sought approval for construction of the venue with the commission on Tuesday. But he asked to delay the vote until March.<\/p>\n<p>The Citrus County School Board approves an internship affiliation agreement with USF<\/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 agreement allows students at USF to be educational interns in Citrus County schools and will automatically renew each school year for a maximum period of seven years.<\/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":"Citrus County votes to allow CoreCivic to negotiate ICE contract Yesterday, Citrus County votes to allow CoreCivic to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":440627,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[7083,46978,1877,1841,16665,30415,6615,4043,135,137,136,416,1537,417],"class_list":["post-440626","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tampa","tag-citrus-county","tag-flock-cameras","tag-ice","tag-immigration","tag-local-government","tag-news-and-public-affairs","tag-pinellas-county-commission","tag-school-board","tag-tampa","tag-tampa-headlines","tag-tampa-news","tag-the-scoop","tag-usf","tag-wmnf-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/440626","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=440626"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/440626\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/440627"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=440626"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=440626"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=440626"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}