Sam Broadway with KEPW Newsday for Dec. 4-5, 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. (Newsday theme)

This is KEPW Newsday End of Week Edition, for Thursday the fourth and Friday the fifth of December, 2025. On this edition of KEPW Newsday:

Corvallis Police arrest a suspect after a high-speed elude and no injuries were reported.
The Benton County Sheriff’s Office seeks the public’s help in identifying a deceased man found in the Willamette River.
A Drain man is arrested for assault in Lane County.
Police arrest an armed, barricaded man in the 4800 block of Royal Avenue.
A man is also arrested for eluding police and has a pipe bomb located in his vehicle.
A Portland man is sentenced after attacking a Molalla Police officer in a SWAT standoff.
A young woman is hit by an Amtrak train near Salem.

In national news:

Trump, the Trump administration, is to withhold SNAP food aid from the Democrat-led states over data.
Costco sues the Trump administration, seeking a refund of tariffs.
Two are arrested for allegedly stealing over $200,000 worth of merchandise from Southern California stores.
Over 250,000 cases of shredded trees are recalled over possible metal fragments.
A tree trimmer is fatally impaled on an iron fence after a 35-foot fall in Los Angeles.
A drunk raccoon—yep, a drunk raccoon—is found passed out in a liquor store bathroom.

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