Sam Broadway with KEPW Newsday for Aug. 25-26, 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 25th and Wednesday the 26th of August, 2026. On this edition of KEPW Newsday:

• The Supreme Court allows the Trump administration to implement parts of a key order restricting mail voting ahead of the midterms. We’ll have the latest.
• A homicide suspect is found dead by suicide in Washington after five bodies are found on a rural Forest Grove property.
• Corvallis police arrest a suspect following reports of shots fired.
• An arson investigation is underway in Junction City.
• Lane County Sheriff’s Department has made an arrest in a homicide investigation.
• Eugene Police arrest a 68-year-old man in a case involving two juveniles.
• Three are arrested and five guns are seized after a brief shelter in place in a suspect search in Southeast Portland.
• Police standoff on Hamilton Avenue in North Bend draws multiple agencies.

In national news:

• An Alaska plane crash near a remote radar site kills at least eight people on board.
• Chaos ensues after a fatal shooting at a California high school football game and gunfire is reported at another game.
• A Pennsylvania teen says demons made him fatally stab his girlfriend and then got his mom to help hide her body.
• A laptop catches fire on a U.S. flight with a passenger treated at the airport.
• Thousands of dog food cans are under recall over possible metal contamination.
• A quick-thinking teen saves an elderly woman with dementia struggling in a dangerous summer heat wave.

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