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Steve Inskeep talks to Robert Runcie, superintendent of Broward County Public Schools, about Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School students who wrap up their first few days back to class.

A Peoria man has died after he was struck by a falling tree limb at his Central Peoria home on Sunday. Peoria County Coroner Jamie Harwood said...

Police say the bear in Missoula County opened an unlocked door, deadbolted the door behind him and then ripped a room apart. Fish and Wildlife officials finally tranquilized the bear.

A small town in Colorado is making big moves to fight the spread of coronavirus.

WCBU's On Deck has everything you need to know to start your day for Wednesday, August 5, 2020. Our top story is about how Tri-County registered voters...

A nature resort and retreat is in development in Woodford County.

Tazewell County Coroner Charles Hanley said a man was found dead in the Illinois River in East Peoria on Saturday.

Last week the medical examiner in Oakland County, Michigan released an autopsy report of the last patient that Dr. Jack Kevorkian claims to have helped die. The medical examiner says he found no evidence of medical disease. NPR's Don Gonyea reports that today in speeches before the National Press Club in Washington DC Kevorkian's lawyer, Geoffrey Fieger disputed the examiner's report and the retired pathologist affirmed his right as a physician to relieve suffering through assisting suicide.

Noah talks to R. George Metellus, an epidemiologist who is director of the AIDS, TB, and Sexually Transmitted Disease Surveillance Units at the Dade County Department of Health and Rehabilitative Services. A talk show host on Miami's WLQY-AM radio station had been saying on the air that AIDS is a myth. Metellus says that some AIDS patients have stopped taking medication because they believe the radio broadcast.

Riverside County California sheriff's deputies have been placed on administrative leave after being videotaped beating two people who were driving a truckfull of illegal immigrants on a California highway. The man and woman apparently put up no resistance as the officers struck them repeatedly with billy clubs. Noah Adams talks with NPR's Mandalit DelBarco who's in Los Angeles and has been reporting on the reaction from the Latino community. (4:30)