{"id":77060,"date":"2025-12-09T15:14:09","date_gmt":"2025-12-09T15:14:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/77060\/"},"modified":"2025-12-09T15:14:09","modified_gmt":"2025-12-09T15:14:09","slug":"the-scoop-tues-dec-9-2025-tampa-bay-and-florida-headlines-by-wmnf","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/77060\/","title":{"rendered":"The Scoop: Tues. Dec. 9, 2025 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\/2025\/11\/The-Scoop-color-2048x2048-1.jpg\" class=\"attachment-250365 size-250365 wp-post-image\" alt=\"WMNF The Scoop\" large=\"\" decoding=\"async\"  \/><\/p>\n<p>DeSantis designates CAIR as a \u201cforeign terrorist organization\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Governor DeSantis has called one of the largest Muslim civil rights advocacy groups in the US a \u201cforeign terrorist organization\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Florida considers naming October 14 as \u201cCharlie Kirk Day of Remembrance\u201d<\/p>\n<p>A Florida Senate committee will take up a proposal to make October 14th, Kirk\u2019s birthday, \u201cCharlie Kirk Day of Remembrance\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Some Sargassum populations are declining<\/p>\n<p>Researchers at USF discovered a steep decline in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wmnf.org\/usf-researchers-find-steep-decline-in-sargassum-despite-beach-inundations\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Sargassum <\/a>that could be caused by the high temperatures in the Gulf of Mexico.<\/p>\n<p>Florida plans to execute Mark Geralds tonight<\/p>\n<p>Mark Geralds is set to be executed this evening, making him the 18th execution in Florida this year.<\/p>\n<p>Applications are being accepted for Florida Supreme Court Justice<\/p>\n<p>A state panel has set a deadline for next Wednesday for candidates to submit applications to fill the vacant spot on the Florida Supreme Court<\/p>\n<p>A policyholder appeals Citizens\u2019 requirement to arbitrate claims<\/p>\n<p>A lawsuit about whether the state\u2019s Citizens Property Insurance Corporation can require arbitration of claims disputes is being challenged.<\/p>\n<p>The Scoop: Tampa Bay &amp; Florida headlines by WMNF<\/p>\n<p>The Scoop, produced by Sofia Caballero.<\/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":"DeSantis designates CAIR as a \u201cforeign terrorist organization\u201d Governor DeSantis has called one of the largest Muslim civil&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":49891,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[43267,407,33019,408,43408,30415,412,36512,135,137,136,416,1537,19123],"class_list":["post-77060","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tampa","tag-cair","tag-charlie-kirk","tag-citizens-property-insurance","tag-death-penalty","tag-florida-supreme-court-appointments","tag-news-and-public-affairs","tag-ron-desantis","tag-state-government","tag-tampa","tag-tampa-headlines","tag-tampa-news","tag-the-scoop","tag-usf","tag-wmnf-88-5-fm"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77060","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=77060"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77060\/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=77060"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=77060"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=77060"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}