Sam Broadway with KEPW Newsday for July 17-18, 2025

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

This is KEPW Newsday End Of Week edition, for Thursday the 17th and Friday the 18th of July, 2025.
On this edition of KEPW Newsday:

• The Eugene Springfield Fire Department rescues seven people on back-to-back water rescue calls.
• The City Council repeals the fire service fee.
• A West Linn man faces federal charges for unlawfully possessing machine guns, unregistered firearms, and silencers.
• A man with firearms and more than 30 pieces of fraudulent ID is arrested.
• A man is arrested after a neighborhood dispute.

In national news,

• An American Idol music supervisor and her husband are found shot dead in their Los Angeles home and a suspect is in custody.
• A 7.3 magnitude earthquake rattles an Alaskan island prompting a tsunami advisory.
• Two Los Angeles sheriff’s deputies are charged in a federal civil rights conspiracy that is tied to private security work.
• A former homeless man wins $1 million on California’s lottery scratcher.
• A former sheriff’s candidate is going to face trial for allegedly registering cats to vote.

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