Sam Broadway with KEPW Newsday for Oct. 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 End Of Week Edition for Thursday the 16th and Friday the 17th of October, 2025. On this edition of KEPW Newsday:

• An early morning FBI raid at a Eugene apartment complex disturbs the local residents.
• Federal agents delay an ambulance leaving the Portland ICE building with an injured protester.
• A suspect armed with a gun barricades himself in a Southeast Portland garage.
• A man is found guilty of murder after a stabbing which left the victim in a pool of blood.
• A driver is arrested for DUI after crashing head-on into a TriMet bus in Northeast Portland.
• Twenty-eight are arrested in a TriMet safety mission in Northeast Portland.
• There’s an early morning fire at a vacant home in Eugene to tell you about.
• A California man is arrested in an international gold scam that targeted a Lincoln County senior.

In national news:

• Homes are swept away and one person is killed after the remnants of a typhoon caused severe flooding in Alaska.
• Los Angeles County declares a state of emergency over immigration raids.
• Her 13-year-old son was arrested and taken by ICE to a detention facility. We’ll tell you about that.
• Ben’s Original Rice is on recall for potential stones involved.
• WIC receives $300 million to extend food assistance to moms and young kids during the government shutdown.
• Need a laptop? There’s a retiree that refurbishes them and gives them the way to those in need.

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