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Sam Broadway with KEPW Newsday for June 12-13, 2025

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 12th and Friday the 13th of June, 2025. On this edition of KEPW Newsday:

  • The Douglas County Interagency Narcotics Team makes arrests on methamphetamine distribution.
  • The FBI and local partners interrupt an IED and mass shooting event.
  • A newborn baby is left abandoned at a Springfield Dairy Mart.
  • Eugene Police detain and charges a youth after threats are made.
  • Eugene deploys 57 new surveillance cameras, aiding police but drawing ACLU’s criticism.
  • The project Sanitation Justice aims to restore dignity through hygiene in Lane County.

In national news:

  • A nine-year-old accidentally shoots and kills a five-year-old, his five-year-old sister with an AR-15. The suspect remains at large.
  • Children are taken from parents because they’re houseless.
  • A man who was arrested after winning a $167 million Powerball jackpot requests to serve out his sentence.
  • When hope seemed lost, the neighbor’s dog led a frightened boy safely home.

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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