Sam Broadway with KEPW Newsday for July 14-15, 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 14th and Wednesday the 15th of July, 2026. On this edition of KEPW Newsday:

• Four people are sentenced after firearms investigation follows a million dollar burglary and a commercial fire in Millersburg.
• Deputies arrest a suspect during a Veneta residential burglary.
• A man is sentenced for a bias crime after threatening a neighboring family.
• A crowd assembles in downtown Eugene to mourn the latest death during an ICE operation.
• A Salem domestic stalking investigation leads to a gun / drug bust.
• A Tigard man is accused of burglary stalking as police seize an AR-15 replica during his arrest.
• A man is stabbed and pepper-sprayed during a fight on a westbound MAX train between Portland and Beaverton.
• The Evans Creek Fire grows to 2,000 acres and all evacuations remain in place.

In national news:

• A suspect—and victim details—emerge in a deadly San Diego Islamic Center shooting.
• One is dead after an ICE-involved shooting in Maine.
• A man is nearly sucked out of a window mid-air on a Ryanair airplane.
• Friends rescue an elderly couple and a family from a burning home on the Fourth of July.

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