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WCBU's On Deck has everything you need to know to start your day for Wednesday, Aug. 4, 2021. Our top story is about how the Peoria Park District is looking at ways to transform the oldest park in its system, and that could include major changes to the 60-year-old amphitheater. You'll also hear how a major event in a fast-growing sport will bring top players and lots of fans to the Greater Peoria area this week. Competition in the Discraft Ledgestone Insurance Open starts tomorrow at various area locations. WCBU Reporter Joe Deacon talks with tournament director Nate Heinold about the event's increasing popularity.

WCBU's On Deck has everything you need to know to start your day for Wednesday, Aug. 4, 2021. Our top story is about how the Peoria Park District is looking at ways to transform the oldest park in its system, and that could include major changes to the 60-year-old amphitheater. You'll also hear how a major event in a fast-growing sport will bring top players and lots of fans to the Greater Peoria area this week. Competition in the Discraft Ledgestone Insurance Open starts tomorrow at various area locations. WCBU Reporter Joe Deacon talks with tournament director Nate Heinold about the event's increasing popularity.

Authorities are investigating fires that have damaged or destroyed black churches in South Carolina and nearby states following the shooting deaths of nine people at Charleston's Emanuel AME Church.

Roughly 133 billion pounds of food go uneaten each year — much of it still edible. So for a half-year, the two filmmakers behind Just Eat It vowed to eat nothing but food entering the waste stream.

Public health officials on Friday reported six more fatalities linked to COVID-19 in the past day, along with 77 new confirmed or probable coronavirus infections

White House coronavirus response coordinator Dr. Deborah Birx said Saturday that New York, Louisiana and Detroit remain the main hot spots but emerging are Colorado, Pennsylvania and Washington, D.C.

The statute is also the basis for one of the four obstruction counts brought against former President Donald Trump in the criminal case currently pending against him in federal court in Washington.

A new report from the National Academy of Sciences knocked down some pro-GMO claims, such as that they've boosted crop yields, and urged federal agencies to change the way these foods are regulated.

A cheating scandal has rocked the world of bridge. NPR's Robert Siegel talks to Newsweek reporter John Walters to get the details.

The agency that oversees the U.S. intelligence community has released an unusual public statement ruling out the theory that the coronavirus was manmade.