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Pala Today News – 6/1/26

Written by John Fox on June 1, 2026

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LOCAL AND REGIONAL NEWS

A Saturday evening hit-and-run left a man dead in Escondido. It happened around 8:30p at Ninth Avenue and Redwood street. The driver fled the scene. The unidentified victim died at the hospital. A vehicle believed to have been involved was found abandoned a short distance away. A possible second vehicle is being sought. Anyone with information is asked to call Escondido Police. The city has been dealing with several high profile hit-and-runs lately. https://hoodline.com/2026/05/escondido-hit-and-run-horror-driver-bolts-after-killing-local-man/?utm=newsbreak

A two-vehicle traffic collision on eastbound Highway 76, just west of Olive Hill Road, closed several lanes and required a multi-agency emergency response on Saturday night. First reported at approximately 9:13 p.m., the incident prompted 9-1-1 calls describing up to three vehicles in the roadway. However, authorities later confirmed the crash was a two-vehicle collision involving a gray Toyota van and a gray Jeep. There were injuries. No victim details reported. https://www.villagenews.com/story/2026/05/28/news/two-vehicle-collision-snarls-traffic-on-eastbound-sr-76-in-fallbrook/82031.html

Firefighters responded to a residential structure fire Saturday morning at a housing complex in Fallbrook in the 1300 block of Winter Haven Road. The incident was classified as a residential fire and prompted a response from the North County Fire Protection District. https://www.villagenews.com/story/2026/05/28/news/residential-fire-reported-at-fallbrook-housing-complex/82026.html

California’s first “smart freeway” is open for business as of today in Temecula. The $33m project on I-15 between the county line and the 215 split will operate as a pilot project for the next two years, utilizing on-ramp meters set by real-time information from road sensors on the freeway. Also, digital messages will be displayed along the eight-mile stretch showing recommended speeds to improve the flow of traffic. Riverside County Transportation will analyze data over the next two years to determine the project’s success and whether it should be implemented in other parts of the county. https://www.newsbreak.com/cbs-la-500220/4681874781413-california-s-first-smart-freeway-begins-operation-on-i-15-in-temecula

Pala will be mostly sunny for at least the next week with temperatures a bit above normal Wednesday through Friday, then back to about 80 this weekend. The full forecast is coming up. (below)

SPORTS

In the NBA playoffs – San Antonio beat the favorite, Oklahoma City in Game 7 of the Western Finals Saturday in OKC, 111-103. They’ll host the Knicks for Game 1 of the NBA Finals Wednesday at 5:30p on ABC. Bettors are picking the Knicks, who swept their way to the Finals to win this series. https://www.espn.com/nba/story/_/id/48929879/bettors-heavily-invested-knicks-win-nba-finals

In the NHL playoffs – Carolina routed the visiting Canadiens 6-1 Friday to win the Eastern Finals four games to one. They’ll host Vegas for Game 1 of the Stanley Cup Finals tomorrow at 5p on ABC.

In Major League Baseball – The Padres lost their second straight at Washington yesterday 4-2. The won the series opener 7-5 with Fernando Tatis Jr. finally getting his first home run of the season. The Dodgers took two out of three from the visiting Phillies, including a 9-1 win yesterday with Yamamoto striking out ten and earning the win for LA. The Diamondbacks got swept in Seattle. That puts the Padres back in second place in the NL West, a game ahead of Arizona and 5 ½ behind the Dodgers. The Angels lost two out of three at Tampa Bay. They’re in last place in the AL West.

Sunday’s Athletics game in West Sacramento saw the visiting Yankees tying a record by scoring 13 runs in a single inning. The Yankees got their first 12 batters on against two A’s pitchers. It was their biggest single inning since a 2005 game against Toronto, and one run less than the record set in 1920 against the Washington Senators. Final score 13-8. https://www.espn.com/mlb/recap?gameId=401815578

In the minors – The Lake Elsinore Storm beat Inland Empire 11-6 yesterday, taking five out of six games at Lake Elsinore. The Storm begin a six-game series at Fresno tomorrow.

In the NFL – The New York Giants today announced they’ve signed free agent wide receiver Odell Beckham Jr. Coach John Harbaugh has a good history with the 33-year old from three years ago in Baltimore. https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/48939355/giants-sign-odell-beckham-jr-bolster-wr-room

Hall of Fame receiver and NFL coach Raymond Berry has died. His family announced today that Berry died peacefully at his home in Tennessee on May 25. He was 93. https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/48938330/hall-fame-receiver-nfl-coach-raymond-berry-dies-93

In golf – At the Charles Schwab Challenge in Ft. Worth, Russell Henley won the first round of sudden death after he and Eric Cole tied at 12-under par 268 in the regulation four rounds. https://www.espn.com/golf/leaderboard

In racing – Yesterday in Nashville, Denny Hamlin won his fourth NASCAR Cup race this year and second in the past three weeks. https://www.espn.com/racing/results

BUSINE$$

As of midday trading on Wall Street, stocks were mixed. The Dow fell by a quarter percent. The S&P 500 was up two tenths. And the Nasdaq gained four tenths of a percent. Gold futures fell $87.40 on the Comex, trading at $4,505.60 an ounce. The benchmark West Texas Intermediate Crude oil futures, which had fallen to a two-month low last week, shot up more than 6%, or $5.37 to $92.73 a barrel.

The Trump administration said on Friday that it will appeal the federal judge’s order allowing all companies that paid now-invalidated tariffs to seek refunds – not just the ones that filed lawsuits. More than 1k companies have filed. The refund system overseen by U.S. Customs and Border Protection has been working fairly smoothly with the first refunds hitting applicants bank accounts May 12 – about three weeks after the claims process was initiated. Legal experts say it’s a stall tactic and that there’s little hope the government can stop tariff refunds completely. https://apnews.com/article/tariff-refunds-trump-court-appeal-7209128eeee29c565c4ea5a6892f73c6

Nvidia today unveiled powerful new computer chips that would bring advanced artificial intelligence functions to laptops and desktops in models being rolled out later this year by Microsoft and Dell. Santa Clara-based Nvidia is already the world’s most valuable company, ahead of Apple, Microsoft, and Google parent, Alphabet. Nvidia share rose 4%, while Intel and AMD both fell 3% in early trading today. https://apnews.com/article/nvidia-microsoft-ai-laptops-jensen-chip-c807f7333b93b9927b62b1240dcf65a1

MGM Resorts board member Barry Diller’s company, People Inc. has offered to buy MGM for $48.30 per share in cash. That pushed the price of shares up 15% in morning trading. People Inc. already owns 26.1% of MGM and Diller says he’ll recuse himself from board actions on the proposed deal. https://www.cnbc.com/2026/06/01/mgm-resorts-barry-diller-people-bid.html

About 1k workers at a Michigan supplier of parts for GM pickup trucks went on strike today after not reaching a new contact. The company is Dauch Corp. – formerly known as American Axle and Manufacturing in Three Rivers, Michigan. Exact demands have not been made public. But longtime workers there who’d made as much as $29 an hour had their wages slashed to $14.50 during the 2008 recession and currently top out at $22 an hour after a five-year progressive raise. https://www.cnbc.com/2026/06/01/uaw-strike-union-work-stoppage-threatens-gm-truck-production.html

Mercedes-Benz might no longer be able to sell new vehicles in the United States if a bill now making its way through Congress passes and is signed into law by the President. The Motor Vehicle Modernization Act of 2026 would ban the German Automaker from the U.S. market because its largest shareholder is China’s state-owned BAIC. According to reports from CNBC, if the act becomes legislation, any automaker with “any direct or indirect equity interest by a foreign-adversary government” which includes China, would be barred from selling or importing vehicles in the U.S. www.morningbrew.com

LIFESTYLE / GREEN LIVING

Over the weekend at the movie box office, the low-budget horror film, “Backrooms” debuted in first place with $81.4m in ticket sales – about the same as the first three days for “Star Wars: The Mandalorian and Grogu” and better than the first weekend for “The Devil Wears Prada 2” – both of which cost a lot more to make. “Obsession” remained #2 with an additional $26.4m in its third week in theaters. Mandalorian dropped to third place, with about 70% fewer people going to see it in its second weekend. “Michael” is #4 in its 6^th week of release. “The Breadwinner” debuted in 5^th place with $7.5m in ticket sales. “Pressure” debuted in 7^th place on half or fewer screens than the others with $5.7m. Total movie attendance for the top ten films was about the same as the first three days of Memorial Weekend, which was the second-best three-day weekend this year. https://www.boxofficemojo.com/weekend/2026W22/

The war with Iran and its effect on gas prices is changing the way we buy fuel. According to its CEO, Costco has never sold as much gas as it did between April and mid-May. Its stations are having to get multiple deliveries daily to keep up as people drive further and wait in longer lines to get what is usually the cheapest gas in the region. They’re also getting it more often – topping off against the fear that prices might go up tomorrow. Walmart reports seeing the same. Their customers have begun filling up an average of less than ten gallons at a time for the first time since 2022. With global supplies depleting and oil tankers still blocked from passing through the Strait of Hormuz, market analysts are predicting a huge jump in fuel prices in the near future. That and the already $1.22 per gallon hike in average prices since last year mean higher prices will eventually be on the way for products made with petroleum or having to be transported long distances. https://www.npr.org/2026/05/29/nx-s1-5838740/how-stressed-are-americans-about-high-gas-prices-fueling

On this day in music history – June 1,

In 1959, “The Battle of New Orleans” by Johnny Horton went to #1 on both the pop and country charts and stayed there for two months. It was originally a poem written by a high school teacher in 1936 which was combined with music from an old fiddle tune known as “The Eighth of January”.
In 1963, Lesley Gore began the first of two weeks at #1 with “It’s My Party”. Quincy Jones produced it for Mercury Records.
In 1964, the Rolling Stones arrived in New York for their first U.S. tour. Less than four months after thousands showed up at JFK Airport for The Beatles’ arrival, about 500 gathered to welcome the Stones.
In 1967, one week after its British release, The Beatles’ “Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band” album was released in the U.S. Widely regarded as one of the greatest of all time, it was the first Beatles album to feature exactly the same track listing on both the British and American versions and has gone on to sell more than 50m copies worldwide including multiple media and remastering re-releases.
On the same day, David Bowie released his debut album which included the singles, “Rubber Band” and “The Laughing Gnome”. The album’s failure caused Deram Records to drop him from its lineup the following April.
In 1968, Simon & Garfunkel were at #1 with “Mrs. Robinson”, the theme song for the Dustin Hoffman and Ann Bancroft film “The Graduate”. The song earned the 1969 Record of the Year Grammy.
In 1972, The Eagles released their debut album. It was an immediate success and produced three Top 40 singles, “Take It Easy”, “Witchy Woman”, and “Peaceful Easy Feeling”.
In 1985, Prince & The Revolution began the first of three weeks at #1 on the album chart with “Around the World In a Day”.
In 1991, former singer with The Temptations, David Ruffin died of a drug overdose.
In 2007, contemporary musicians recorded their own versions of songs from The Beatles’ Sgt. Pepper album to mark its 40^th The acts included Oasis, who one year earlier had beaten The Beatles in a survey of the most popular albums in the first 50 years of the British charts. Their “Definitely Maybe” album came in first place followed by The Beatles’ Sgt. Pepper and “Revolver”.
In 2017, Jerry Garcia’s favorite guitar, named Wolf brought $3.2m at auction including one million donated to the civil rights group, Southern Poverty Law Centre.

Born on this day …

In 1934, Pat Boone, who was the second-biggest charting artist of the late 50s, behind Elvis.
In 1947, Ron Wood who worked with Rod Stewart in the Jeff Beck Group and Faces before joining The Rolling Stones in 1975, replacing Mick Taylor.
In 1950, Graham Russell from Australian soft rock band, Air Supply
In 1959, Alan Wilder, keyboard player for Depeche Mode.
In 1960, Simon Gallup, bass player for The Cure
In 1974, Alanis Morissette.

https://www.thisdayinmusic.com/search/?keyword=&date=1&month=6

Other celebrity anniversaries today …

Actor Morgan Freeman is 88
Actress Diana Canova from the TV sitcom, “Soap” is 72
Actress, singer and wife of country singer Clint Black, Lisa Hartman is 69
Actress and comedienne Amy Schumer is 44
Among those who’ve passed, Frank Morgan who played the title role and four other parts in “The Wizard of Oz” was born on this day in 1890.
Marilyn Monroe and Andy Griffith were both born on this day in 1926.
Actor and comedian Cleavon Little, best-remembered as Sheriff Bart in “Blazing Saddles” was born this day in 1939.
Actor Rene Auberjonois, whose movie career began with M*A*S*H and Brewster McCloud in 1970 and included TV’s “Benson” and “Star Trek Deep Space Nine” was born in 1940.

http://www.dementeddatebook.com/2080-date0601.htm

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WEATHER

Pala Weather – sunny with a high of 81 today … 79 tomorrow … 84 Wednesday … 85 Thursday … 83 Friday … 81 Saturday … 80 Sunday … overnight lows, 53 tonight and tomorrow night … 56 Wednesday and Thursday nights … about 54 Friday and Saturday nights

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