Sam Broadway with KEPW Newsday for July 22-23, 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 22nd and Wednesday the 23rd of July, 2025. On this edition of KEPW Newsday:
- There was an active shooter arrested on I-5 near Ashland over the weekend.
- A fire breaks out at the McKenzie River Ranger Station.
- A Lorane man is arrested for murder.
- A pursuit ends in a suicidal male taking his life.
- Almost 2,800 affordable homes funded as Oregon Housing and Community Services marks the first year of the Oregon centralized application process.
- A man who was assaulted near the Oregon Convention Center/MAX station dies from his injuries.
- Eugene residents clashed with police over the use of Flock cameras.
- Oregon State University is ending two DEI programs amid inclusive excellence efforts.
In national news:
- At least 30 are injured after a car plows into a crowd outside a music venue in Los Angeles.
- An explosion at the LA sheriff’s station is the deadliest day in 170 years.
- Demonstrators and federal agents seen in a violent downtown Los Angeles clash.
- A father of three drowns after rescuing several people from rip current.
- A pack of hungry cougars storm a Springfield Walmart.
We’ll have all of that plus our national roundup. Bringing you the news locally and around the globe, KEPW Newsday starts…right now!
That Oregon Life (Satire)
And, finally, panic broke out Monday afternoon when a pack of hungry cougars stormed the Springfield Walmart, raiding shelves and sending shoppers sprinting for the exits. Witnesses say the animals first appeared in the parking lot around two in the afternoon, circling shopping carts and eyeing customers loading groceries. Moments later, the big cats slipped through their sliding glass doors and made a direct beeline for the meat department.
“They didn’t even hesitate,” said Walmart greeter Doris Perkins, who survived the encounter by hiding behind a Mountain Dew display. “They went straight for the rotisserie chickens like they knew exactly what they were.”
But the carnage didn’t stop there. After devouring several family pounds of ground beef and toppling a freezer full of chicken nuggets, the Cougars reportedly migrated to Aisle 9, where they discovered a two-for-one catnip sale.
It was pure madness. They tore open every single bag of catnip, rolled around like maniacs, and started batting around the clearance section squeaky toys. I swear one of them was purring.
Animal control arrived within an hour, but decided to remain in their vehicles after one cougar was spotted reclining in a motorized scooter near the electronic section, casually licking barbecue sauce off its paws. They were clearly in no rush to leave.
“We might just have to let them finish their shopping,” said the officer, Jeanine Brooks. Now, the cougars had taken over the garden center for an afternoon nap and were reported eyeing a pallet of jumbo-sized goldfish crackers
as their next target.
Walmart Corporate has yet to enter an issue of formal statement, but sources say executives are considering new signage, reading “No shirt, no shoes, no fangs: No service.”
And all of this from Tyler James of That Oregon Life, a regional news publication, and that’ll wrap it up for this edition of KEPW Newsday.
