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New speed limit on I-275<\/p>\n
The Florida Department of Transportation has decreased the speed limit in both directions of I-275 on the Howard Frankland Bridge and in part of Pinellas County. Beginning last night, the speed limit is now 55 miles per hour between 38th Street North in St. Petersburg and the Tampa International Airport exit in both directions of I-275.<\/p>\n
Florida\u2019s bear hunt begins<\/p>\n
The Florida-sanctioned black bear hunt<\/a> began Saturday, despite the vocal opposition of critics.<\/p>\n There\u2019s opposition to the Trump Administration\u2019s proposed new changes to the Endangered Species Act<\/p>\n If the changes take effect<\/a>, they could impact how species are listed, how habitat is protected and would change how the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service looks at the future of species like manatees.<\/p>\n The next USF president could be confirmed by a state board<\/p>\n The state university system\u2019s Board of Governors next week will consider confirming the selection of Moez Limayem to become president of the University of South Florida.<\/p>\n Cancer patients and survivors will struggle without ACA tax credits<\/p>\n A new survey finds that nearly 3 in 4 cancer patients and survivors may lose lifesaving care<\/a> if Congress does not extend Affordable Care Act enhanced premium tax credits.<\/p>\n How to prepare for seasonal illnesses<\/p>\n It is important to look out for symptoms of the flu, COVID-19, RSV and other respiratory viruses<\/a> as we reach the peak of seasonal illnesses in the upcoming weeks. Symptoms include fever, chills, muscle aches, headaches, sore throats, cough and a runny nose.<\/p>\n Subscribe to The Scoop<\/a><\/p>\n The Scoop: Tampa Bay & Florida headlines by WMNF<\/p>\n The Scoop, produced by Se\u00e1n Kinane.<\/p>\n WMNF anchors Se\u00e1n Kinane, Chris Young, Lisa Marzilli, Josh Holton, Randi Zimmerman.\u00a0 Theme music, Fresh06, by Stian via archive.org \u2013 CC-BY-NC-SA 2.5 information from News Service of Florida, the Associated Press and Florida Public Media was used in this report<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"New speed limit on I-275 The Florida Department of Transportation has decreased the speed limit in both directions…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":49891,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[6696,31789,1158,2345,42799,30415,6701,135,137,136,416,1798,1537,9070],"class_list":["post-78110","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tampa","tag-aca","tag-bear-hunting","tag-cancer","tag-fdot","tag-howard-frankland-bridge","tag-news-and-public-affairs","tag-obamacare","tag-tampa","tag-tampa-headlines","tag-tampa-news","tag-the-scoop","tag-transportation","tag-usf","tag-vaccines"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78110","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=78110"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78110\/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=78110"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=78110"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=78110"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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