Sam Broadway with KEPW Newsday for Aug. 11-12, 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 11th and Wednesday the 12th of August, 2026. On this edition of KEPW Newsday:

• There is a hit-and-run crash that took place on Friday of this last weekend here that resulted in a pedestrian fatality.
• A double murder happened in Springfield the next day, Saturday, at the Gateway Mall, and these two incidents may be related.
• Firefighters in Lebanon save multiple structures after residents are evacuated from a wind-driven brush fire.
• An early morning fire damages a Springfield home.
• The Street Crimes Unit seizes over $214,000 in cash and several pounds of drugs.
• Eugene Springfield Fire respond to a reported fire involving an aircraft at the airport.
• An attack with a glass bottle leads to an arrest.
• A man is charged after kicking a vehicle and striking a victim repeatedly, both here in Eugene.

In national news.

• Two boys, ages four and seven, allegedly took their parents’ car and hit a woman walking her dog.
• Two men are arrested after a machete fight in a Publix parking lot.
• A naked man is accused of beating a security guard to death at a condo complex and is identified as a champion swimmer.
• A bakery owner defends a homeless man who lives outside a store after a one-star review.

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