Sam Broadway with KEPW Newsday for April 2-3, 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. (Newsday theme)

This is KEPW Newsday End-Of-Week Edition for Thursday the 2nd and Friday the 3rd of April, 2026. On this edition of KEPW Newsday:

The U.S. Attorney’s Office files a petition seeking information to locate violent criminal aliens in Oregon.
A Portland man is charged in a drug and firearm offense.
Salem police make an arrest in West Salem in an armed menacing case.
Washington Gov. Ferguson signs a controversial millionaire’s tax bill into law.
The Washington County sheriff seizes nearly 100 pounds of meth and over $400,000 in drugs.
A new Springfield inpatient rehab hospital is going to ease patient wait times and treat brain injuries.
A Eugene teen faces DUI charges after his car rolls down Skinner Butte.

In national news:

An American journalist is kidnapped in Iraq.
Ten kilos of cocaine worth $1 million are seized in a traffic stop in California.
A four-year-old with a reading level of a 12th-grader is accepted into elite IQ groups.

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