October 2, 2025

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Sam Broadway with KEPW Newsday for Sept. 30 – Oct. 1, 2025

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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 30th of September and Friday the first of October, 2025. On this edition of KEPW Newsday:

  • A coordinated effort leads to arrest in a kidnapping and assault case.
  • Marion County deputies arrest an armed woman near a local school in Salem.
  • A Portland man is charged with stealing mail.
  • A Dayton woman is sentenced to federal prison for defrauding veterans’ organizations.
  • Gun violence fears prompt Eugene students to have a mile-long walkout.
  • A mistakenly released Oregon murder suspect is arrested again, after a multiday manhunt.
  • A new family shelter is expected to open in Gresham in this fall or winter.

In national news:

  • Two are killed and eight are injured after a shooting and fire at a Michigan LDS church. The suspect is dead.
  • A deadly shooting in a North Carolina bar was highly premeditated and the location was targeted.
  • A student brings a gun on a school field trip and shoots himself in front of classmates.
  • Nineteen people are injured after a field rush and altercation following Virginia’s win over Florida State.
  • The FBI fires agents photographed kneeling during the 2020 racial justice protests.
  • Trash collectors help a Manhattan Beach man find a wedding ring he mistakenly threw out.

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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