Sam Broadway with KEPW Newsday for Oct. 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 End-Of-Week Edition, for Thursday the eighth and Friday the ninth of October, 2026. On this edition of KEPW Newsday:

• The Eugene Police Department has invoiced one of our local media outlets, Double Sided Media, for more than $2.6 million to fulfill two public records requests.
• A Medford man pleads guilty to distributing meth fentanyl, admitting it caused two people’s deaths.
• A Bend man is sentenced to federal prison for an armed robbery.
• A barricaded Grants Pass suspect shoots at officers near Williams Highway.
• The Lane County Jail holds a Eugene man after an alleged violent attempted rape.
• A Washington County man is sentenced after a meth-fueled shooting spree that led to an officer-involved shooting.
• A domestic violence assault suspect is arrested after a standoff at a Kelso home.
• A Salem hospital forced a couple to drive home with their son’s dead body.

In national news:

• The FBI say they stopped a Mall of America terror plot by an 18-year-old after agents sold him the assault rifle.
• A car goes into a large crowd of rugby fans, injuring multiple people in Sydney, Australia.
• One is dead and two are injured after a downtown Las Vegas shooting.
• Bodycam footage shows moments after a six-year-old shot an elementary teacher.
• A possible shooting on the 110 freeway in South L.A. is under investigation.
• A person crashes a stolen tug before trying to steal a lavatory truck at John Wayne Airport.
• A man rams his Kia into a runaway SUV on I-5 to save a mother and a child.

We’ll 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 end-of-week edition of KEPW NewsDay. I’m Sam Broadway and we’ve got as much a lot to cover as you can hear and a lot to get to. So we will do that in just a few moments. But first we’re going to check our local weather to see just how chilly we’re going to get. Let’s take a look, shall we?