Sam Broadway with KEPW Newsday for July 31-Aug. 1

Jana Thrift: This Saturday, Aug. 2, there’ll be a protest: Reject Billionaire Rule. Protesters will gather at noon outside of Whole Foods Market parking lot and surrounding areas while calling on Eugene and Springfield residents to participate in an indefinite boycott of Bezos-owned companies Whole Foods and Amazon.

We’re coming together to demonstrate the rejection of the rising ‘broligarchy’ of tech billionaires, who increasingly influence public policies, suppress labor rights, and consolidate economic and political control, and to oppose the broader system of billionaire rule and corporate ownership of our country.

We encourage these local alternatives to Whole Foods Market: The Kiva Grocery and Deli, Capella Market, Red Barn, Natural Grocery, Sundance Natural Foods, Saturday Market, New Frontier Market, King’s Asian Market, El Torito, Eugene Asian Market, Vishnu India Imports, El Rancho, Sunrise Asian Market, Growers Market Co-op, Market of Choice, and Winco, employee-owned Winco. Yes, again, Aug. 2, protest at noon at Whole Foods in Eugene: Reject billionaire rule.

Sam Broadway: 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 31st of July and Friday the 1st of August, 2025. On this edition of KEPW Newsday:

• Parts of the Oregon coast were under a tsunami advisory due to an powerful earthquake off the Russian coast.
• A suspect is dead. Two officers are injured in a Gateway-area police shooting that blocked off that area for hours.
• Firefighters were on the scene of a gas leak in downtown Eugene.
• A woman awaiting trial at the Lane County Jail dies from an emergency medical issue.
• Two people are arrested in an ATM jackpotting attempt.
• A Springfield man is arrested in the Camp Creek area after shots are fired.
• A stolen vehicle found via the LPR; suspect is arrested and a vehicle is returned to its owner.
• A deadly crash involving multiple vehicles temporarily closes traffic on I-5.

In national news:

• A Virginia councilman is set on fire in a personal attack at his office.
• Cocaine worth more than $1 million is seized at the Texas border.
• Knott’s Berry Farm riders were left dangling in mid-air after a ride malfunctions.
• A Delta co-pilot is arrested at a California airport moments after landing.
• Fifty pounds of dynamite were found in an abandoned school bus.
• A highly radioactive wasp nest is found at the site of a former nuclear facility.

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