Sam Broadway with KEPW Newsday for July 23-24, 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 23rd and Friday the 24th of July, 2026. On this edition of KEPW Newsday:

• An adult in custody in the jail is charged for a new assault while there.
• Lane County deputies and Oakridge fire personnel respond to a drowning on the Willamette River.
• There’s a drowning on the North Umpqua River as well to tell you about.
• Eleven are arrested and seven guns seized during a two-day enforcement mission across Portland.
• An Oregon man dies while trying to protect his home from a wildfire.
• A wrong-way chase on Beltline ends in an arrest in Springfield.

In national news:

• A man carrying an AR-15-style rifle fires into a Las Vegas neighborhood before dying after his arrest.
• A mother who forced her 11-year-old daughter to give birth without medical care after her husband raped her receives a sentence.
• A brother saves his six-year-old sister from a rabid bat attack with a makeshift sword.

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