Sam Broadway with KEPW Newsday for Aug. 5-6, 2025

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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 Top Of The Week Edition for Tuesday the fifth and Wednesday the sixth of August, 2025. On this edition of KEPW Newsday:

Deputies locate a kidnapped victim and arrest a suspect near Veneta.
The Linn County Sheriff’s Office is investigating a robbery in Mill City.
A Eugene man is arrested for a murder in East Lowell.
A Happy Valley father is shot to death and a man aged 72 is arrested.
A Scapoose man is sentenced after a break-in and hitting an ex-girlfriend with a hammer.

In national news:

A former U.S. soldier is a suspect in a Montana bar shooting that killed four, prompting a manhunt.
A Tennessee man is arrested after officers find 14 IEDs and provide explosive devices inside his home.
A Long Beach man pledged allegiance to ISIS and built homemade bombs.
Protesters clash with authorities during a LA homeless camp sweep.
More than $1.5 million worth of stolen meat from Walmart is found during a traffic stop.
A bat flies into a woman’s mouth in Arizona, costing her nearly $21,000 in medical bills.

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