Sam Broadway with KEPW Newsday for Aug. 4-5, 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 fourth and Friday the fifth of August, 2026. On this edition of KEPW Newsday:

• An officer-involved shooting happened in Linn County near Riverbend County Park.
• Eugene Springfield Fire responds to an apartment fire near downtown Eugene, and a shed fire damages a Eugene home.
• A bat-wielding suspect is arrested after vandalizing vehicles.
• A deputy is injured making an arrest in Glenwood.
• One person is hospitalized and another in custody after a shooting at a Gresham apartment.
• The city of Springfield settles its July 29 lawsuit of 2020, more than six years later.

In national news:

• Multiple people died after a shooting at an Idaho In-N-Out restaurant.
• A cop faces 13 years in prison for secretly recording sexist, homophobic, and racist remarks allegedly made by fellow LAPD officers.
• A bombing next to a police station in Columbia injures 11, days before the presidential inauguration.
• A good Samaritan is shot and killed after trying to stop a man stealing flowers from a woman.
• A mother said she forgot her infant who died in a hot car was in the back seat after dropping off two others at daycare.
• A toddler who was declared dead was found alive hours later at a hospital morgue.
• A little girl is declared a hero after saving her and her family from a devastating house fire.

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