Sam Broadway with KEPW Newsday for May 7-8, 2026
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And now, the news.
This is KEPW Newsday End-Of-Week Edition for Thursday the seventh and Friday the eighth of May, 2026. On this edition of KEPW Newsday:
- Two are charged with narcotics trafficking at or near affordable housing establishments.
- Deputies arrest two for burglary following a vehicle pursuit.
- A woman is arrested for mail theft on River Road.
- One is dead and one is hurt in a shooting at a Cinco de Mayo event in downtown Portland.
- PeaceHealth agrees to extend services with the Eugene Emergency Physicians and a contract is pending.
- Otto the Robot joins the security team at the Portland Cinco de Mayo Festival.
In national news:
- Two are dead and three are injured after a shooting during a business meeting at a Texas shopping center.
- U.S. marshals find 31 missing children in a three-week operation.
- A 15-year-old survives an electric shock and a 60-foot fall into a brush fire after climbing a power line.
- An explosion at a China fireworks factory kills 26 people.
- How embracing the empty boat theory can help keep your anger and anxiety in check.
We’ll have all of that plus our national roundup. Bringing you the news locally and around the
globe, KEPW Newsday starts… right now!