Sam Broadway with KEPW Newsday for July 16-17, 2026

This is KEPW-LP 97.3 FM, broadcasting locally here in Eugene, Oregon, and simulcast online at kepw.org. And now: the news. (KEPW Newsday theme)

This is KEPW Newsday End-Of-Week Edition, for Thursday the 16th and Friday the 17th of July, 2026. On this edition of KEPW Newsday:

• A Jackson County man is sentenced to federal prison for distributing fentanyl.
• Lincoln County Fire and Tillamook County deploy to the East Evans Creek Road Fire in Jackson County.
• Suspects are arrested after an Independence Day weekend shootings and a robbery.
• A man is arrested after allegedly stabbing two family members in Northeast Portland.
• A significant amount of fentanyl was seized in a drug bust and two are arrested in Portland.
• An Oakridge arson investigation has residents fearing for their safety.
• A man is accused of committing 88 Portland deaths over the last two years.

In national news:

• A shooting near Toronto: The Street Festival kills two people and wounds four.
• Three are dead and two children are hospitalized in a Toledo carbon monoxide incident.
• Five relatives are killed and two are hurt in an evil targeted shooting in Illinois and two teens are in custody.
• A driver is charged after a school bus carrying a high school student football team overturns and injures students.
• A man fleeing ICE officers in Florida is struck and killed by a tractor-trailer.
• Taco Bell is investigated as part of the cyclospora parasite outbreak.
• A meteorite that crashed into a New Jersey home contains alien world chemistry, say scientists.

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