Sam Broadway with KEPW Newsday for April 28-29, 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 28th and Wednesday the 29th of April, 2026. On this edition of KEPW Newsday:

• Deputies arrest a suspect in a Jasper hit-and-run.
• We have a couple of fires to tell you about, one in Springfield and one in Roseburg.
• Police are searching for a suspect after a stabbing is reported in Eugene.
• A store employee is stabbed at a Eugene Safeway and a suspect is caught nearby.
• A woman faces an assault charge after a driftwood attack over a glass float in Lincoln City.
• PeaceHealth adds life-saving defibrillators at Springfield Eugene sports fields.
• And a pawsitively daring rough rescue saves a bulldog from a cliff.

In national news:

• Trump is safe after a gunman tries to breach the Washington Correspondents’ Dinner. (We’ll probably have more on that in the Public News service from Pacifica later in the show.)
• Dozens more homes were lost in Georgia and evacuations in Florida as Southeast drought conditions fuel the continuing wildfires there.
• A once-in-a-blue-moon event occurs over Oregon this week.

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