Sam Broadway with KEPW Newsday for April 16-17, 2026

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 End-Of-Week Edition for Thursday the 16th and Friday the 17th of April, 2026. On this edition of KEPW Newsday:

• A pedestrian is struck on Northwest Expressway.
• Amazon employees say they were forced to work around a corpse.
• A Southern Oregon meth ring is dismantled in a multiagency operation.

In national news:

• A woman is fatally shot by officers after slashing her three-year-old boy in a Walmart shopping cart.
• A man burst into flames at a Southern California shopping center.
• And how a 39-year-old turned dumpster diving into a full-time income.

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