Sam Broadway with KEPW Newsday for June 18-19, 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 End Of Week Edition for Thursday the 18th and Friday the 19th of June, 2026. On this edition of KEPW Newsday:

• There is an officer-involved shooting in Lincoln County.
• A complaint is filed seeking to revoke the naturalization of an Indian national.
• Firefighters from nearly every agency in Linn County responded to fight a house fire outside of Sweet Home Sunday night.
• There was a reported drowning in Logsden, Oregon.
• A teen is killed and two others are hurt in a Vancouver shooting.
• The Oregon District Attorneys warned that a mental health ruling could force more releases from jail.
• Suspects turn themselves in after a dog is killed in a hot car and then the body dumped behind a Marion County bar.

In national news:

• The Trump administration threatens to pull unemployment benefits from all 50 states for the first
  time in history.
• A Mississippi one-year-old is killed when police shoot at a car during an alleged shoplifting call.
• A suspect is in custody after a deadly targeted shooting at a Delaware hospital.
• Details emerge in a violent Culver City hit-and-run rampage that injured eight.
• A man is accused of selling kosher salt to an undercover officer and claiming it was meth.
• A man is arrested after 150 live venomous scorpions are found in his luggage.

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

Sam Broadway is the longtime voice of KEPW Newsday on KEPW 97.3 Eugene PeaceWorks Community Radio. New editions of KEPW Newsday air every Tuesday and Thursday at 12:30 p.m.