Sam Broadway with KEPW Newsday for Aug. 27-28, 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 27th and Friday the 28th of August, 2026. On this edition of KEPW Newsday:

• A man posing as a San Francisco 49er is charged with defrauding over two dozen women out of more than $1.3 million here in Oregon and Washington.
• The Oregon State Police are investigating vandalism at multiple Oregon state parks.
• A Netarts man is sentenced to federal prison for possessing a firearm and ammunition as a felon.
• A teen boy is dead and six others are injured after a crash involving a boat and a pickup truck on the Oregon highway.
• Go Now evacuations are issued in Estacada during due to a hazardous materials incident.
• Portland police are searching for a suspect accused of setting a man on fire in Old Town.
• Many Oregonians may qualify for SNAP exemptions they don’t know about.

In national news:

• A man killed eight relatives, including four kids, at a Sunday dinner.
• A New York school employee stabs a delivery driver six times with a pen for being late.
• A 16-year-old is shot twice while walking to school in eastern Riverside County.
• People are scrambling to find wads of cash dropped all over American cities.

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