Sam Broadway with KEPW Newsday for Dec. 16-17, 2025

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 16th and Wednesday the 17th of December, 2025. On on this edition of KEPW Newsday:

• A Springfield fire has claimed a life.
• Lane County Sheriff’s detectives discover a drug lab near Marcola.
• Two arrests were made during a Glendale search warrant execution.
• Multnomah County leaders call for the overhaul of the drug deflection program.
• Washington residents evacuate amid catastrophic flooding. The National Guard is going door to door in Burlington.
• Trillium commits to close the gap for thousands of incoming members who have out-of-network providers.

In national news:

• Brown University shooting, there’s what happened this weekend. This was a pretty tragic weekend, as a matter of fact. The police are releasing the video of a person of interest as the manhunt continues.
• Eleven are killed in an Australian shooting targeting the Jewish community.
• A 15-year-old boy kills his ex-girlfriend’s mother and siblings in Texas.
• A Southern California mother is repeatedly stabbed while changing a baby’s diaper at a Macy’s store in New York City.
• A swastika is formed by students on a high school football field in California.
• Germans bought an entire town’s beer supply before a white supremacist music festival could happen there.

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