Sam Broadway with KEPW Newsday for April 21-22, 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 Top-of-the-Week Edition, for Tuesday the 21st and Wednesday the 22nd of April, 2026. On this edition of KEPW Newsday:
- A standoff with an armed suspect in Albany ends peacefully.
- Two are dead in a Reedsport house fire and a suspect is arrested for murder.
- A Seaside woman is sentenced to federal prison for stealing COVID-19 unemployment benefits.
- Eugene police respond to an assault of a vulnerable black male victim in his 40s near Willakenzie Road.
- A roof flew 100 feet and ammunition popped in seconds after a Coos County home blast.
In national news:
- Eight children between the ages of 1 and 14 are dead after a mass shooting in Louisiana.
- The Secret Service tackles an intruder attempting to scale the White House fence with Trump inside the White House.
- Two are killed and five are injured as a planned fight between teens turns into a deadly shooting at a North Carolina park.
- Two U.S. soldiers are injured in an encounter with a brown bear during a training exercise.
- And stuck in traffic? Well, this car may come with a toilet.
We’ll have all of that plus our national roundup. Bringing you the news locally and around the globe, KEPW Newsday starts… right now!
