October 8, 2024

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Sam Broadway with KEPW Newsday for Sept. 17-18, 2024

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Sam Broadway: This is KEPW 97.3 LPFM 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 17th and Wednesday the 18th of September, 2024.

On this edition of KEPW Newsday:

  • A SWAT team is involved in a fatal shooting after an armed standoff.
  • Also, the Oregon State Police are investigating an officer-involved shooting in Polk County.
  • A woman is arrested for driving under the influence with a child in the vehicle.
  • We will have not one but two operational updates on the local and regional wildfires.
  • We will also have suspects zip-tying and doing an execution-style drug debt killing of a man in Gresham and they plead guilty.
  • A minor is arrested after Sweet Home Schools were closed Thursday and Friday due to a possible threat.
  • There’s one hurt in a North Portland shooting and officers are searching for suspects.
  • And Dylan Gabriel leads #9 Oregon to a 49-14 win over Oregon State.

In national news:

  • A tire breaks off a car, slides into oncoming traffic, and kills a Colorado motorcyclist.
  • An attack on a trans teen is being investigated as a possible hate crime.
  • An Ohio sheriff suggests collecting addresses of Kamala Harris supporters.
  • Burger King unveils three new Whopper sandwiches created by fans.
  • An eight-year-old girl drives mom’s car to Target and goes shopping.

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

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