Sam Broadway with KEPW Newsday for Sept. 1-2, 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 first and Wednesday the second of September, 2026. On this edition of KEPW Newsday:

• A convicted felon in Medford is charged with possessing firearm silencers and a destructive device.
• Two are arrested following a disturbance in Northwest Corvallis.
• A deadly plane crash in Hood River County is under investigation.
• A person is accused of firing at tree workers in Oregon City prior to a SWAT response.
• 70 illegal guns were seized in a Portland firearms trafficking case.
• A man is arrested for pointing a gun at drivers in Eugene.
• A man is also arrested for stealing from three delis in three days.
• A neighborhood is evacuated while Eugene Police SWAT team takes a man into custody.
• Ashland adopts a proclamation opposing an ICE detention facility.
• Portlanders honor Dolly Parton with a group roller disco at a convention center.

In national news:

• Mass shootings rock two U.S. cities, three are dead and 18 are injured.
• One is dead and more than 15 missing in a Grand Canyon flash flood.
• One is dead and five are wounded in a shooting at a rave in Switzerland.
• New York police are investigating after police shoot a knife-wielding woman in Times Square.
• A man is sentenced after stabbing a seven-year-old at a Walmart for the rush and then attacking a Dollar Tree employee.
• A man is accused of a lewd act in a California sheriff’s station lobby.
• Thieves steal a truck carrying roughly 40,000 pounds of Pabst Blue Ribbon.
• A coach confronts a knife-wielding man to protect a high school team.

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