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Sam Broadway with KEPW Newsday for Oct. 14-15, 2025

This is KEPW-LP 97.3 FM broadcasting locally here in Eugene, Oregon and simulcast online at KEPW.org. And now: the news.

This is KEPW Newsday Top Of The Week Edition for Tuesday the 14th and Wednesday the 15th of October, 2025. On this edition of KEPW Newsday:

  • A vehicle collision results in gunfire.
  • The Oregon State Police are asking for the public’s assistance to identify the suspect or suspects in a fatal hit-and-run in Douglas County.
  • Salem and Eugene Police collaborate to stop an organized burglary ring.
  • The Lane County Sheriff’s deputies arrest a wanted man after shots fired and a pursuit.
  • A Marion County woman is sentenced to 32 years for sexual abuse.
  • An attempted murder suspect is injured by police and yelled F.U. at officers, then shot at them first, say prosecutors.
  • Twenty Oregon counties back Marion County’s sanctuary state lawsuit.

In national news:

  • Multiple people are killed and 18 are missing after an explosion at a Tennessee explosive manufacturer.
  • Four are killed and 20 are hurt in a bar shooting in a St. Helena Island, South Carolina bar.
  • For arrests are made in connection with the Mississippi mass shooting, that left six dead.
  • No more loud commercials: The state of California is limiting the volume on ads streaming from services like Hulu and Prime Video.
  • A 16-year-old Oregon (Westview High School) student’s climate change innovations win a national prize.

We will have all of that, plus our national roundup, bringing you the news locally and around the globe. KEPW
Newsday starts… right now!

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