Sam Broadway with KEPW Newsday for Oct. 23-24, 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 23rd and Friday the 24th of October, 2025. On this edition of KEPW Newsday:

• A blind man is dragged by federal agents into a Portland ICE facility.
• A second man is arrested for the shooting death of a 13-year-old boy in Gresham.
• Sixth-graders are mistakenly served pretzels contaminated with oven cleaner at a Tigard middle school.
• Food for Lane County battles SNAP cuts, amid demand surge.

In national news:

• A man is taken into custody after driving a car into the White House gate.
• Two are injured, including a U.S. marshal, after an ICE agent’s weapon is discharged during an LA immigration enforcement operation.
• Gov. Gavin Newsom of California is going to deploy the National Guard to support food banks and fast-track food benefit funding amid government shutdown.
• Walmart has a Thanksgiving meal basket that will feed 10 people for under $40, it claims.
• Farmworkers are hailed as heroes after rescuing 20 children from a burning school bus in California.

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