Sam Broadway with KEPW Newsday for Aug. 7-8, 2025
Prepare for extreme heat Sunday and Monday: It will be in triple digits. Predictions are 101-102 right here in River City.
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 seventh and Friday the eighth of August, 2025. On this edition of KEPW Newsday:
- Lane County Sheriff’s Marine Patrol and Search and Rescue conduct multiple water rescues over the weekend.
- A Woodburn man is sentenced to 100 months in prison for robberies with a fake explosive vest.
- A hate crime in Eugene, a Lincoln statue is found hanging outside a home.
In national news:
- Eight people are shot after a party shut down in Los Angeles and two are dead.
- Four family members are found dead connected to a baby abandoned in a stranger’s yard.
- A man is hospitalized after being set on fire in downtown Los Angeles.
- Two bodies are found after a 14-year-old boy calls 911 and said he killed his parents.
- A bird dropped a fish on a power line and sparked a brush fire.
- A contractor pays a $20,000 fine in loose change, weighing over 12,000 pounds.
We will have all of that plus our national roundup. Bringing you the news locally and around the globe, KEPW Newsday starts… right now!
