Sam Broadway with KEPW Newsday for Jan. 20-21, 2026

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 20th and Wednesday the 21st of January, 2026. On this edition of KEPW Newsday:

• We have a helicopter crash to tell you about that happened in Lincoln City at the end of last week.
• Lane County Sheriff’s Detectives arrest a Eugene man for menacing and sex crimes against juveniles.
• Also, a man is suspected of shooting two Portland police officers and is still on the loose and wanted after the search ends.
• The Lane County Sheriff’s Office is seeking tips on a reckless driver who ran down a power pole and then through a front yard on Jan. 18.
• A body is recovered from the Willamette River near the South Bank Path in Eugene.

In national news:

• The Children’s Hospital is another victim of an ICE shooting with a flashbang and tear gas, which hit a van.
• More than 100 vehicles smashed into each other or slid off the interstate in Michigan on Monday.
• A judge and his wife were shot in their home in Lafayette, Indiana.
• An LA County district attorney says his employee was wrongfully detained by ICE.
• A man accused of killing a woman at Barnes & Noble said he did it because she was the closest person inside the store.
• A woman dies riding the Revenge of the Mummy attraction at Universal Orlando.
• And a UPS driver rescues a 101-year-old woman from a burning home in Orange County.

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