Sam Broadway with KEPW Newsday for April 21-22, 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 Top-of-the-Week Edition, for Tuesday the 21st and Wednesday the 22nd of April, 2026. On this edition of KEPW Newsday:

• A standoff with an armed suspect in Albany ends peacefully.
• Two are dead in a Reedsport house fire and a suspect is arrested for murder.
• A Seaside woman is sentenced to federal prison for stealing COVID-19 unemployment benefits.
• Eugene police respond to an assault of a vulnerable black male victim in his 40s near Willakenzie Road.
• A roof flew 100 feet and ammunition popped in seconds after a Coos County home blast.

In national news:

• Eight children between the ages of 1 and 14 are dead after a mass shooting in Louisiana.
• The Secret Service tackles an intruder attempting to scale the White House fence with Trump inside the White House.
• Two are killed and five are injured as a planned fight between teens turns into a deadly shooting at a North Carolina park.
• Two U.S. soldiers are injured in an encounter with a brown bear during a training exercise.
• And stuck in traffic? Well, this car may come with a toilet.

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