Sam Broadway with KEPW Newsday for July 8-9, 2025
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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 eighth and Wednesday the ninth of July, 2025. On this edition of KEPW Newsday:
- The Lebanon Fire District receives a priceless donation from a local business.
- One is transported after drowning in the Willamette River.
- A corrections deputy is arrested for on-duty incident at the Douglas County Jail.
- Protests against Trump and ICE unfold in both Eugene and Portland on the Fourth of July.
- A Lane County man is facing charges in multiple shootings with at least one stolen gun.
- An unhoused person saved a life on the river.
In national news:
- A man is dead and a woman critically injured after fireworks explosions set homes on fire in Pacoima, and
- One is killed in a Simi Valley house fire reportedly caused by fireworks, and
- A Buena Park 8-year-old is killed by fireworks explosion on the Fourth of July.
- Del Monte Foods is filing for bankruptcy and will search for a buyer, and
- A Coast Guard member from New Jersey describes his effort to help rescue 165 people from the deadly Texas floods.
We will have all of that plus your national roundup bringing you the news locally and around the globe. KEPW News Day starts… right now!
And welcome to yet another busy edition of KEPW Newsday. I’m your host Sam Broadway, and we do have a lot to cover today. But before we get to anything, I do want to take the time to note the passing of one of our biggest champions for the unhoused of the last 45 years, at least: Martha Bryson passed away this weekend on Sunday and she was again a champion for the unhoused, not just here, but she started in Baltimore, then in Galveston, Texas. She also was a instrumental person in Long Beach, California, San Francisco, California and now her latter years were spent here before she passed.
She was a member of LEAGUE, the Lived Experienced Group for Unhoused Engagement, and we appreciated all of that and she was a very big instrumental part on funding for unhoused projects and there was a lot more to Martha Bryson and she will sincerely be missed.
