Sam Broadway with KEPW Newsday for May 6-7, 2025

This is KEPW 97.3 FM LP broadcasting locally here in Eugene, Oregon and simulcast online at KEPW.org. And now, the news.

This is KEPW Newsday Top Of The Week edition for Tuesday the 6th and Wednesday the 7th of May, 2025. On this edition of KEPW Newsday:

• Protesters gather in downtown Eugene as part of a nationwide May Day strong protest against Trump. However, there were arrests made during that protest, we’ll tell you all about it.
• K9 attacks a standoff suspect at an Albany rest stop.
• Eugene police arrest a man with a rifled shape bong after a standoff on Royal Avenue.
• U of O claims striking students are intimidating guests and disrupting disrupting delivery of critical supplies.
• Parents say a 10-year-old son was expelled from school, a private school that is, after being called the N-word.
• A Marion County jury finds a woman guilty of intentionally injuring another with a vehicle.

In national news:

• Gov. Tony Evers of Wisconsin speaks about the threats of arrest and we will have that speech coming up.
• Two people are wounded in a shooting at a Spartan College in Inglewood, California.
• Three are dead and five are injured in a shooting incident at an Arizona restaurant.
• McDonald’s says the tariffs are hurting sales after reporting their largest decline since the pandemic.
• A police canine jumps into the water and rescues a missing autistic boy clinging to a tree in Massachusetts.

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

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