Sam Broadway with KEPW Newsday for Oct. 20-21, 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 20th and Wednesday the 21st of October, 2026. On this edition of KEPW Newsday:

• We have an update on the active shooter incident at Silver Rail Elementary School that happened last Thursday.
• Two are arrested following a firearms and drug investigation at Pioneer Park in Corvallis.
• The Marion County Sheriff’s Office responds to a shooting near Turner, Oregon.
• A defendant is held accountable for an incident in June.
• A standoff happened with an armed subject.
• A handcuffed man runs from the police and is found with guns and drugs.
• An armed intoxicated man is arrested for walking into a couple’s home.
• A teen driver is arrested for DUII after the police find 35 bottles of alcohol in the car.
• A suspect is shot by the Oregon State Police after stabbing a canine during a West Eugene standoff.
• A Eugene driver’s roadblock standoff ends in a DUII gun arrest.

In national news:

• A New York City college student is dead after being drugged with fentanyl and raped in her dorm room.
• More than 1.5 million pounds of meat, including hot dogs, bacon, and deli meat, are recalled.
• Thieves steal almost an entire field of pumpkins from a first-year family farm.

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