Sam Broadway with KEPW Newsday for Oct. 6-7, 2026

This is KEPW-LP 97.3 FM, broadcasting locally here in Eugene, Oregon, and simulcast online at kepw.org. And now: the news.

This is KEPW Newsday Top-Of-The-Week Edition for Tuesday the sixth and Wednesday the seventh of October, 2026. On this edition of KEPW Newsday:

• The Lane County Sheriff’s serve an arrest warrant and a subject is found deceased inside a residence.
• The Lane County Sheriff’s and South Lane Fire respond to a plane crash on Sears Road.
• A grandmother is arrested for DUII with a child in a car.
• The street crimes unit seizes a substantial amount of methamphetamine.
• Eugene police find a stolen car and arrest a driver.
• A man is arrested for shooting a rifle toward the freeway.
• The Eugene police and SWAT team and the street crimes unit investigate a case in Veneta.
• A shooting investigation and arrest took place as well.
• A man stabs a neighbor recording him picking fights in downtown Portland.
• Five sexual assaults are reported at the University of Oregon campus as classes begin.

In national news:

• Two are dead and 35 are injured in a homecoming party mass shooting in Georgia.
• The Coast Guard finds debris from a medical plane carrying six people.
• Five men are arrested near an air base used by the U.S. in the Iran war on suspicion of preparing a terrorist attack.
• A toddler pulls a loaded handgun from his backpack at a daycare.
• A Florida mom leaves an infant toddler and two other kids at home while she went on a three-day cruise.
• A dog finds three children who wandered away from the campground.

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

And welcome to this Top-Of-The-Week Edition of KEPW Newsday. I’m your host Sam Broadway and yes, I’m back after my two week hiatus and I needed it and a lot happened that was extremely stressful as well as getting very ill, so I appreciate that you stuck with it and I hope the music was okay. And here I am, now I’m back.

And for those of you who are here, I appreciate you very, very much. So thank you so much for returning and being a part of this broadcast today.

We have quite a bit to cover, as you hear, and some catching up to do as well, and we’re going to get to all of it as soon as possible. But right now, it is time to check our local weather, which is still in the warm stages. But that will all come to a screeching halt as we head into the weekend. Let’s take a look, shall we?