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Sam Broadway with KEPW Newsday for April 24-25, 2025

Sam Broadway: 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, End of Week Edition, for Thursday the 24th and Friday the 25th of April, 2025. On this edition of KEPW Newsday:

  • Oregon State Police are investigating an officer-involved shooting in Josephine County.
  • There is an April retail theft operation that was conducted by the Springfield Police.
  • A federal judge orders the United States to restore the visas of two international students in Oregon.
  • Seven are arrested in a “Swing into Easter” Portland Street takeover.

In national news:

  • Gunfire erupts in a busy LA intersection. One is killed, another is injured.
  • 60,000 Americans are going to lose their rental assistance and risk eviction unless Congress acts.
  • A man pins down an 11-year-old girl he assumed threw eggs at his home, and
  • Police rescue a man aged 78 with dementia hanging from a window by forming a human pyramid.

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

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