Sam Broadway with KEPW Newsday for Jan. 15-16, 2025

This is KEPW-LP 97.3 FM, broadcasting locally here in Eugene, Oregon, and simulcast online at kepw.org. And now: the news. (KEPW Newsday theme)

This is KEPW Newsday End of Week Edition, for Thursday the 15th and Friday the 16th of January, 2026. On this edition of KEPW Newsday:

• A Salem man is sentenced to life for murder in the second degree.
• A suspect is apprehended in a Springfield assault—but in Coos County.
• Deputies respond to an early morning dispute in Glenwood.
• There’s a shooting in Sweet Home, a suspect is arrested, and a victim is in critical condition.
• Lebanon murder charges are filed after a Highway 34 shooting death.
• An investigation is underway after two bodies are found at a North Portland Recycling Center in the same week.
• A woman is arrested after assaulting EMTs at a hospital in Clackamas.

In national news:

• There is yet another ICE-involved shooting in Minneapolis, where a person is injured and an officer is as well.
• An anti-ICE protester has suffered a severe eye injury during a clash.
• Thousands of nurses go on strike at several major New York City hospitals.
• A woman helps a homeless man she befriended get his own tiny home after learning about his story.

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

Well, guess what: I’m back. I told you, if things worked out on Tuesday I’d be here, and here I am. And it’s good to be back again. I appreciate you all tuning in, as you always do at this time on this station…