Sam Broadway with KEPW Newsday for Aug. 20-21, 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 20th and Friday the 21st of August, 2026. On this edition of KEPW Newsday:

• A Lakeside man is sentenced to federal prison for possession with intent to distribute meth.
• A man is arrested for driving a car through Alton Baker Park.
• A crowbar assault leads to multiple injuries and two arrests in Grants Pass.
• A Vancouver parking lot fight involving teens leads to gunfire and one person is hospitalized.
• A Yreka man is arrested for setting his girlfriend on fire.
• One is dead and one is injured after a vehicle leaves the Oregon highway and goes airborne before catching fire.
• Beaverton police seek the public’s assistance on a serious assault near a shopping center.

In national news:

• One is killed and four others are wounded in Lexington, Kentucky in a shooting there.
• Penn State frat brothers are charged with running a cocaine traffic ring.
• A man armed with a water gun is fired on by Los Angeles police.
• Over 20 tons of squid spill onto a Rhode Island road, blocking traffic for eight hours.
• Pop music’s most famous phone number now connects callers to a cancer support helpline.
• A child left alone before heart surgery finds a permanent family through an unexpected decision.

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