Sam Broadway with KEPW Newsday for Aug. 19-20, 2025

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 19th and Wednesday the 20th of August, 2025. On this edition of KEPW Newsday:

• Two Texas men are sentenced to federal prison for their roles in a conspiracy to commit armed robbery while posing as DEA agents.
• Deputies arrest an Ashland man for menacing with a pistol.
• Three are arrested in Lorane on a restraining order violation incident.
• Suspects who inspired the bike bait theft mission are still at large. Three others are arrested.
• A drug crack down in Eugene parks leads to 19 arrests and citations.
• A Coos Bay cop checked his TikTok and his text messages during a suspect’s fatal meth overdose.

In national news:

• Three are killed and eight are injured in a shooting in a crowded New York club amid record low gun violence year.
• Federal agents fire on a vehicle during a San Bernardino standoff.
• A man dies while fleeing an immigration operation at a Monrovia Home Depot.
• One of the largest U.S. retailers is going to pay $5.6 million for overcharging customers.
• And a not-for-profit Hollywood actor clears $1.2 million debt for 900 people to ease financial struggles.

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