Sam Broadway with KEPW Newsday for Oct. 28-29, 2025

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

This is KEPW Newsday Top of the Week Edition for Tuesday the 28th and Wednesday the 29th of October, 2025. On this edition of KEPW Newsday:

• We have deputies and a K-9 in Blachly arresting a man after an assault and a house fire.
• The owner of a money service business is pleading guilty to conspiracy to launder drug proceeds.
• Lincoln County detectives make arrests on a homicide.
• Five women that are facing homelessness sue Pendleton over public resting restrictions.
• A fire at a Portland city councilor’s home is being investigated as potential arson.
• An Aloha produce market starts mutual aid program to help neighbors losing their SNAP and EBT benefits.

In national news:

• A teen is among two killed in a shooting at a North Carolina Halloween party.
• Four family members of an Illinois governor candidate is killed in a Montana helicopter crash.
• A Border Patrol commander, Gregory Bovino, is ordered to face a federal judge in Chicago after being accused of violating a court order.
• The Social Security Administration announces a 2.8% cost-of-living adjustment.
• How kindness is filling the gaps as U.S. school lunch debt soars to nearly $200 million a year.

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