{"id":83972,"date":"2025-12-15T14:48:09","date_gmt":"2025-12-15T14:48:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/83972\/"},"modified":"2025-12-15T14:48:09","modified_gmt":"2025-12-15T14:48:09","slug":"the-scoop-mon-dec-15-2025-tampa-bay-and-florida-headlines-by-wmnf","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/83972\/","title":{"rendered":"The Scoop: Mon. Dec. 15, 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-250577 size-250577 wp-post-image\" alt=\"WMNF The Scoop\" large=\"\" decoding=\"async\"  \/><\/p>\n<p>Australian leaders agree to overhaul national gun control laws after a mass shooting at a Hanukkah celebration<\/p>\n<p>In an email statement, the Florida Holocaust Museum said it is \u201cheartbroken by the terrorist shooting in Bondi Beach, the latest incident in a global wave of antisemitic violence that continues to plague the Jewish community.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>A man who was seen on video appearing to tackle and disarm one gunman has been identified by Australia\u2019s Home Affairs Minister as Ahmed Al Ahmed. He is an Australian citizen who migrated from Syria in 2006. His family said he underwent surgery for a gunshot wound.<\/p>\n<p>DeSantis appoints Bobby Payne to a Florida board that regulates utilities<\/p>\n<p>Governor Ron DeSantis appointed Republican ex-state Rep. Bobby Payne. In 2024, Payne sponsored a bill that deleted the majority of mentions of \u201cclimate change\u201d from Florida law.<\/p>\n<p>Detainees at a Florida-run immigration detention camp were pepper-sprayed<\/p>\n<p>The USA TODAY NETWORK-Florida reports that immigrant advocates and documents indicate that in October, officers at Florida\u2019s Baker Correctional Institution used a form of pepper spray on detained immigrants.<\/p>\n<p>Florida\u2019s Board of Governors approves a contract extension for Chancellor Ray Rodrigues<\/p>\n<p>Rodrigues\u2019 new three-year contract includes an annual base salary of $600,000, along with annual allowances of $75,000 for housing and $12,000 for vehicle expenses.<\/p>\n<p>The Florida Board of Governors confirms Moez Limayem as USF\u2019s next president<\/p>\n<p>He\u2019s currently the president of the University of North Florida, and set to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wmnf.org\/moez-limayem-confirmed-as-university-of-south-florida-president\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">start at the University of South Florida<\/a> early next year.<\/p>\n<p>A native American group faces widespread outrage over plans to profit from a forced removal<\/p>\n<p>The Prairie Band Potawatomi Nation was uprooted from the Great Lakes region in the 1830s. Now, fellow Native Americans are criticizing the tribe for a contract tied to President Trump\u2019s campaign of mass deportation.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wmnf.org\/get-the-scoop\/\" class=\"btn -theme-primary\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Subscribe to The Scoop<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Scoop: Tampa Bay &amp; Florida headlines by WMNF<\/p>\n<p>The Scoop, produced by Se\u00e1n Kinane.<\/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, 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":"Australian leaders agree to overhaul national gun control laws after a mass shooting at a Hanukkah celebration In&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":49891,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[12388,409,100,3367,5557,30415,412,5364,135,137,136,416,1537,417],"class_list":["post-83972","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tampa","tag-australia","tag-donald-trump","tag-florida-legislature","tag-gun-violence","tag-guns","tag-news-and-public-affairs","tag-ron-desantis","tag-sean-kinane","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\/83972","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=83972"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83972\/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=83972"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=83972"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=83972"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}