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Pala Today News – 7/2/26

Written by John Fox on July 2, 2026

The following items are part of the award-winning “Pala Today” newscast heard this day at noon on PALA REZ RADIO™ 91.3 FM in Pala.

LOCAL AND REGIONAL NEWS

The family of a man fatally struck by an Escondido police officer during an e-bike pursuit last summer has filed a federal wrongful death lawsuit against the city and Officer Jason Ingco, who already faces a misdemeanor charge related to the incident. According to the complaint, Jacob Illian, 39, was riding his e-bike near Rose Street and East Valley Parkway on August 25, when a marked patrol car signaled him to stop for what police described as a “consensual encounter.” Instead of stopping, Illian rode away, prompting Ingco to pursue him down a bike path in his patrol vehicle. The lawsuit alleges there was no probable cause to do so and that Ingco struck Illian with his patrol car with Illian falling to the ground, where he was run over by the patrol vehicle. The lawsuit, filed earlier this month in U.S. District Court is separate from the criminal case against the 35-year old Escondido Police Officer, who is currently on administrative leave. https://thecoastnews.com/family-sues-escondido-police-officer-charged-in-fatal-e-bike-pursuit/

There was a 3.4 magnitude earthquake last night at 11:17p about 9 miles north of Ocotillo Wells. It was mildly felt up and down the Coachella Valley and as far west as the I-15 corridor. https://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/eventpage/ci41285223/executive

A reminder that all Pala offices and tribal departments are closed tomorrow for Saturday’s Independence Day holiday.

The June gloom isn’t gone yet. But July temperatures are here. Pala will be in the low 80s today, warming to the upper 80s by the middle of next week. The full forecast is coming up. (below)

SPORTS

In Major League Baseball – The Padres were thoroughly embarrassed yesterday in Chicago as they lost to the Cubs 23-3. Chicago’s Dansby Swanson had three home runs including a grand slam and 8 RBIs. Pitching and offense – it all came together for the A’s yesterday in Sacramento as they snapped a four-game losing streak and beat the league-leading Dodgers 7-1. The Giants topped the Diamondbacks in Phoenix 6-4. The Yankees lost their 7^th straight – their longest losing streak in three years. And the Angels had the day off. The play at Seattle today. The Padres play the Dodgers in Los Angeles. And Arizona has the day off.

In the minors – The Lake Elsinore Storm lost 11-6 to Stockton last night. Game 3 of 6 is tonight.

In the NFL – The Chiefs’ Travis Kelce and Taylor Swift are set to be married tomorrow at Madison Square Garden. The ceremony is at 5p Eastern time with the party permitted to go as late at 4a. https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/49241315/taylor-swift-travis-kelce-wedding-madison-square-garden-official-confirms

In World Cup Soccer – The U.S. beat Bosnia-Herzegovina 2-0. Belgium topped Senegal 3-2 and England over Congo 2-1. The United States next game is Monday against Belgium in Seattle in the Round of 16.

In the NBA – The NBA’s summer leagues will have a new look to them with two new changes being tested. The NBA will try out its one free throw rule, and a connected basketball with an embedded sensor at this month’s summer leagues in Northern California, Salt Lake City and Las Vegas. The one free throw rule will award a single free throw for any foul that would typically result in one, two or three free throws under standard NBA rules. That free throw attempt will be worth the same total number of points as the free throws it replaces. This will take place until the final two minutes of the fourth quarter and throughout overtime when standard NBA free throw rules will apply. https://www.espn.com/nba/story/_/id/49249828/one-free-throw-rule-embedded-ball-tech-test-set-summer-league

In the WNBA – three games today – Atlanta at Washington, Dallas at Connecticut, and Seattle at Phoenix.

In golf – At the John Deere Classic in Silvas, Illinois, Lucas Glover and Zac Blair are tied at 8 under par for the lead in Round One. Brian Campbell is the defending champion. https://www.espn.com/golf/leaderboard

BUSINE$$

As of midday trading on Wall Street, stocks were mixed. The Dow was up a half percent. The S&P 500 was down a half percent. And the Nasdaq was off by 1.3%. Gold traded up $47.10 on the Comex at $4,129.50 an ounce. West Texas Intermediate Crude oil futures were down 31 cents to $68.27 a barrel.

Stocks with high trading activity today include semiconductor test company, Teradyne, down 13%, Universal Health, up 7% and HCA Healthcare up 5% as the entire S&P 500 healthcare sector reacted positively to news that payment rates for hospitals and surgical centers will be getting updated. Irvine-based EV maker Rivian shares gained 8% on upwardly revised sales predictions. Tesla shares slid 8% in spite of second quarter deliveries that surpassed Wall Street expectations. National Beverage, the maker of LaCroix sparkling water gained 13%. Apple rose 5% even though most of the tech sector declined today. Alphabet fell 2%. Bending Spoons, the holding company for legacy tech brands including AOL, WeTransfer, Vimeo and Eventbrite fell 12% today following yesterday’s IPO during which it gained 40%. https://www.cnbc.com/2026/07/02/stocks-making-the-biggest-moves-midday-rivn-tsla-sndk-owl-avav.html

A federal filing yesterday shows President Trump took in nearly $1.2b from his crypto businesses last year, while his investors got stuck with losses. Tokens and physical coins from his World Liberty Financial and CIC Digital LLC businesses have plunged in value since they went on sale near the beginning of his current term in office. The disclosure statement also shows he made millions from selling Trump-branded bibles, watches and other small items. Trump continues to insist that his sons are directing his finances while many of those business interests benefit from federal policy moves he initiated, all the time rejecting any conflict of interest claims by critics. Forbes estimates Trump’s worth at $6b – up from $2.3b in 2024. https://apnews.com/article/trump-financial-disclosure-crypto-060c15062b8fedc6104159ea13775463

Sandwich chain Jersey Mike’s has filed for an initial public stock offering. The chain reported same-store sales growth of 3% in 2025. Industry-wide, that metric is down over the past year as consumers dine out less to save money. Jersey Mike’s now has almost 3,300 U.S. locations, making it the second largest chain in the segment, behind Subway. Most of its stores are less than ten years old. https://www.cnbc.com/2026/07/02/jersey-mikes-files-for-ipo.html

America’s gas stations are supersizing and expanding their product lineup. The trend is being led by Buc-ee’s, whose largest store is over 75k square feet. That’s half the size of the average Walmart and challenges the definition of “convenience store”. Other chains who lure you into their huge stores by maintaining razor-thin profit margins on fuel include Wally’s and Dolly Parton’s new 18-acre Tennessean Travel Stop which includes a 25k square foot store, dog park, theater, restaurant and bar, truckers’ showers and lounge. The gas station seems like an afterthought. Wally’s has three 50k square foot locations in the Midwest with plans for more. Buc-ee’s is the biggest, both in physical size and number of locations – now topping 50 in 13 states. The closest one to us is just west of Phoenix. Each has up to 120 pumps and are famous for their smoked brisket. Average time spent – and presumably, money spent at Buc-ee’s is more than double that of other convenience stores, averaging almost 21 minutes. They’ve become destinations for their legions of fans who have become their best advertising. Intentional or not, these superstores are tapping into the nostalgia of the traditional family road trip that is more than just gas-and-go with filthy restrooms. https://www.cnbc.com/2026/07/02/led-by-buc-ees-dolly-parton-americas-gas-stations-go-mega-size-.html

LIFESTYLE / GREEN LIVING

New at the movies this weekend, the animated “Minions and Monsters” opened wide yesterday to take advantage of the long holiday weekend. The horror-thriller “Thrash” opens tomorrow. All others this week are limited releases including an action adventure colonial war biography “Young Washington” with Andy Serkis, Ben Kingsley, Mary-Louise Parker and Kelsey Grammer. https://www.boxofficemojo.com/calendar/?ref_=bo_nb_we_tab

As of yesterday, California is now the first state to standardize date labels on food. The non-profit Californians Against Waste co-sponsored AB 660 back in 2024, which has now done away with “sell by” date labels, which are really just a gauge for retailers to stock shelves and have been a problem for consumers and food banks because people think the dates mean the food is no good after that date. In fact, there are more than 50 different date labels on packaged foods sold in stores. That information is mostly unregulated and often does not relate to food safety. California law now bans the use of “sell by” labels on food. Instead there will now be standardized labeling with one of two messages – “Best if Used By” indicating peak quality, and “Use By” for product safety. Manufacturers can choose to use either one or both on their packaging. New York has a similar bill pending that has not yet been signed into law. https://apnews.com/article/california-sell-by-food-labels-ban-bf426a5c0146cc9435d371c072e6a9d3

On this day in music history – July 2,

1956, one day after performing it on TV, Elvis Presley recorded “Hound Dog” at RCA Studios in New York. It was the first time the backing band, The Jordanaires worked with Elvis. Take 31 was the one released. It went on to become Elvis’ best-selling single at over 10m copies and topped the singles chart for 11 weeks – a record that stood for 36 years.
In 1962, Jimi Hendrix was honorably discharged from the 101^st Airborne Paratroopers after breaking an ankle during his 26^th and final jump
In 1966, Frank Sinatra hit #1 with “Strangers in the Night”.
In 1969, bass player Noel Redding quit The Jimi Hendrix Experience. Hendrix and Experience drummer Mitch Mitchell teamed with bass player Billy Cox to play Woodstock the following month
On the same day The Beatles, minus John Lennon were at London’s EMI studios recording tracks for the Abbey Road album. John was in the hospital recovering from the previous day’s car accident in Scotland
In 1971, Queen played its first concert with the lineup of Freddie Mercury, Brian May, Roger Taylor and John Deacon.
In 1979, Sony introduced the Walkman – the first truly portable audio cassette player. Over the next three decades they sold more than 385m Walkmans in cassette, CD, mini-disc, and digital file formats until the advent of iPod and other current digital devices.
In 1980, Bob Weir and Mickey Hart from the Grateful Dead were arrested on suspicion of starting a riot at the San Diego Sports Arena when they tried to interfere with a drug bust.
In 1988, Michael Jackson became the first artist to have five number one singles from the same original album when “Dirty Diana” from the “Bad” album joined “I Just Can’t Stop Loving You”, “The Way You Make Me Feel”, “Man in the Mirror”, and the title track at making #1 on the Hot 100.
In 2001, Liverpool Airport was renamed John Lennon Airport. The new logo included the former Beatle’s famous self-portrait drawing and the words “Above Us Only Sky” taken from the song “Imagine”.
In 2018, Alan Longmuir from The Bay City Rollers died at the age of 70 after contracting an illness while on vacation in Mexico.

Born on this day …

In 1936, Tom Springfield from the British folk trio The Springfields which launched his sister, Dusty Springfield’s solo career
In 1937, David Palmer, keyboard player for Jethro Tull until 1980. In the 90s Palmer had a sex change operation and changed his name to Dee Palmer.
In 1939, Paul Williams from The Temptations
In 1949, Roy Bittan, keyboard player for Bruce Springsteen’s E Street Band
In 1952, Johnny Colla, guitarist with Huey Lewis and The News
In 1956, Jeffrey Cooper from Midnight Star

https://www.thisdayinmusic.com/search/?keyword=&date=2&month=7

Other celebrity anniversaries today …

Comedian Larry David is 79
Actress Ashley Tisdale from “High School Musical” and “The Suite Life of Zack & Cody” is 41
Among those who’ve passed, actor and country singer Ken Curtis, who played Matt Dillon’s sidekick Festus on the TV version of “Gunsmoke” was born in 1916
Comedian Dan Rowan who along with Dick Martin hosted “Rowan and Martin’s Laugh-In” on NBC from Beautiful Downtown Burbank was born in 1922
Actress Polly Holliday from TV’s “Alice” and its spinoff “Flo” was born in 1937. She passed last September at the age of 88.
In 1955, “The Lawrence Welk Show” premiered on ABC television as “The Dodge Dancing Party”. It stayed on the network for 27 years and many more after that in syndication. Welk’s name lives on at the time share resort and mobile home park north of Escondido.

http://www.dementeddatebook.com/2080-date0702.htm

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WEATHER

Pala Weather – sunny with a high of 81 this afternoon … mostly cloudy tomorrow morning, clearing to sunny and 85 by afternoon … partly sunny and 86 Saturday … patchy night and morning low clouds and fog, clearing to mostly sunny and 85 by noon Sunday and Monday … 87 Tuesday … 89 Wednesday … overnight lows, 55 tonight … 57 tomorrow night … about 59 Saturday through Monday night … 61 Tuesday night

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