Sam Broadway with KEPW Newsday for Sept. 8-9, 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 eighth and Wednesday the ninth of September, 2026.
On this edition of KEPW Newsday:

• There is a homicide investigation underway in Tigard.
• Vancouver police are investigating a shooting there.
• A Kaiser man is sentenced for domestic violence.
• A suspect is arrested for a brush fire and theft and later charged in a $640,000 furniture store arson.
• A Vancouver restaurant worker is shot and a suspect is at large.
• A woman was asleep at the wheel in a traffic stop and arrested for DUII.
• A man burns his legs while lighting his own car on fire at a Vancouver gas station.
• A Portland man pleads no contest after police found his dead fiancée in the back seat.

In national news:

• An explosion of fireworks in central Mexico kills 10 and injures 64.
• A suspect snuck a gun into a Pittsburgh police jail cell and shot an officer.
• An unruly passenger is arrested after being restrained with duct tape during a flight.
• A man is arrested of stealing lottery tickets during a job interview at a gas station and then tried to redeem them.
• A family of eight, including six children, were burned but survived a massive home explosion.

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