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WCBU's On Deck has everything you need to know to start your day for Thursday, May 13, 2021. Our top story is about how deaths by suicide in Peoria County declined last year. You'll also hear how Peoria-area lumber yards and construction companies are struggling to grapple with all-time high lumber prices.

WCBU's On Deck has everything you need to know to start your day for Tuesday, Aug. 3, 2021. Our top story is about how the Peoria area Filipino community feels after the Philippines first gold medal win in the Olympics. You'll also hear about how a coalition of Central Illinois farmers are starting a new processing cooperative.

WCBU's On Deck has everything you need to know to start your day for Aug. 2, 2021. Our top story is about how Peoria's new police chief is now officially on the job. You'll also hear from as WCBU correspondent Steve Tarter about home inventory remains in short supply on the local real estate market.

WCBU's On Deck has everything you need to know to start your day for Friday, May 14, 2021. Our top story is about how Bradley University is holding in-person commencement ceremonies this weekend. You'll also hear how professional baseball is back in Peoria after the COVID-19 pandemic canceled last season.

One year after the head of Illinois’ largest public employee pension fund resigned due to what the fund has only described at “performance issues,” a recently published report by the state’s chief ethics officer reveals the circumstances behind the departures of two more former high-ranking officials at the pension fund in 2020.

USCP Chief Tom Manger says problems that led to the Capitol riot have been addressed, and he is focusing on expanding field offices to be better prepared for rising threats to congressional members.

Lawyers for the government's special counsel and former President Donald Trump are set to clash in court in Washington over how the election interference case against him will proceed.

Our most-viewed Instagram videos include reports from a Rhode Island factory that makes special food for malnourished children and from a tournament for soccer-playing "grannies."

Leaders of the Southern Baptist Convention stonewalled and denigrated survivors of clergy sex abuse over almost two decades, according to an independent report.

Sources told NPR the president called African nations a vulgar slur Thursday. The White House didn't deny it, but Trump did so in a tweet. A Democratic senator confirmed the comment on the record.