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Sam Broadway with KEPW Newsday for March 24-25, 2026

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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 24th and Wednesday the 25th of March, 2026. On this edition of KEPW Newsday:

  • Deputies arrest a menacing suspect at Spencer Butte.
  • Salem Police investigate a stabbing and a suspect is arrested.
  • A vehicle pursuit ends an arrest in Linn County.
  • One call for service results in three separate DUII arrests.
  • Oregon and Washington laws are at risk as the Supreme Court hears a case affecting vote-by-mail.
  • A drunk man who stole 22 purses from a Tigard store is arrested after a brief chase.

In national news:

  • A large blast at a Valero oil refinery in Texas sends smoke flames into the air.
  • We will have coverage of a pilot and co-pilot killed in a collision between a jet and a firetruck at New York’s LaGuardia Airport. as well as
  • Officials scrambling to carry out Trump’s directive to have ICE agents conduct airport security (on the Public News Service later in this broadcast).
  • CBS News Radio is going to shut down after nearly a century of broadcasting.
  • $7 million in stolen cargo and $1 million in U.S. currency is recovered following a LA County Sheriff’s investigation.
  • Firefighters rescue an injured dog from a burning house in Wilsonville.

We’ll 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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