Sam Broadway with KEPW Newsday for July 1-2, 2025

This is KEPW 97.3 FM LP Broadcasting locally here in Eugene, Oregon and simulcast online at KEPW.org. And now, the news. (KEPW Newsday theme music)

This is KEPW Newsday Top Of The Week Edition for Tuesday the first and Wednesday the second of July, 2025. On this edition of KEPW Newsday:

• The Oregon State Police seek information regarding a road rage incident in Marion County.
• A workplace violence bill passes the Oregon House and Senate and heads to the governor’s desk.
• A California man is rescued after falling 40 feet at the Tokatee Falls on Monday.
• Four are injured in a shooting in Southeast Portland.
• The sheriff’s office seeks tips after ATMs are destroyed with an excavator.

In national news:

• The suspect is identified in the killing of two Idaho firefighters who were ambushed by gunmen at a wildfire.
• U.S. Marshal’s operation leads to the recovery and location of nearly 60 critically-missing children in Florida.
• Six Flags is planning to close its beloved theme park after 50 years.
• A worker dies after getting stuck in an industrial oven of a cereal factory.
• A crockpot filled with meat is used to smuggle 7 kilos of fentanyl.
• A woman picks up a stunning shell at a beach and then learns it is the world’s deadliest.

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

And I’m back and back from my brief respite and vacation and/or protest if you want to call it. It was sort of a protest. I was kind of protesting for all my listeners out there using radios and so if you’re still getting the coverage from our broadcast over the air and it’s not so clear we’re still working on it but it’s a matter of our volunteer that has to do with hooking up these new Barix boxes to help alleviate and boost our signal our FM broadcast signal. So we’re still waiting for that to happen.

But in the meantime, that was why I was away. Now, I hope you enjoyed the crew of the Whole Community News taking over for Newsday. That was the first and I am wholeheartedly grateful that they did it. It was different. It wasn’t what we do here, but it was very nice. First time in six years, over six years, that somebody has stepped up and taken my place. So I was very grateful. Thank you all to Whole Community News, John Q., Todd Boyle et. al. Thank you very much for what you did.

All right, now we have a lot to cover today and we’re going to get to it as soon as possible but before we do that it’s once again time to check in with our weather.