Sam Broadway with KEPW Newsday for July 3-4, 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 third and Friday the Fourth of July, 2025. On this edition of KEPW Newsday:

• The Oregon Health Authority are urging parents and caregivers to avoid recalled baby food.
• A Salem man receives 20 years in prison for sexually assaulting two women.
• It was a busy afternoon for Sweet Home Fire.
• Two 12-year-olds are arrested for stealing a car and running from officers in Gresham.
• Firefighters respond quickly to an attic fire in Springfield.
• The University of Oregon is laying off 42 employees and more are expected.
• Neighbors raise safety concerns as a new Pearl District homeless shelter is imminent, and
• Skinner Butte summit parking lot is closed due to fire danger.

In national news:

• Members of a white supremacy group are indicted for allegedly threatening federal officials.
• Seven are unaccounted for after a California fireworks warehouse explosion.
• A 7-Eleven employee is brain dead after attack by her manager.
• A knife-wielding man who wanted officers to shoot him jumps into the path of an 18-wheeler, and
• She sold candy outside the stadium until Peyton Manning changed her life. (Changed the rest of her life, I should say.)

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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