Pala Today News – 2/2/26
Written by John Fox on February 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
A 13-year old Oceanside girl is in stable condition after being struck by a hit and run driver near Douglas Drive and Pala Road Friday evening. She was airlifted to a hospital with major injuries. Investigators are looking for a gray Toyota Camry with major front-end damage. Detectives are asking anyone with information to call them at 760 435 4769. https://hoodline.com/2026/02/oceanside-girl-13-airlifted-after-hit-and-run-horror-near-douglas-drive/?utm=newsbreak
The vehicle involved in a hit and run with an e-bike in Fallbrook Sunday was located after a witness provided a license plate number to 9-1-1 dispatch. The collision happened just before 3:30p at East Alvarado and Morro Road. The vehicle was spotted in a nearby driveway. Authorities have not yet confirmed any arrest. The cyclist was transported to a hospital with undisclosed injuries. https://www.villagenews.com/story/2026/01/29/news/witness-leads-authorities-to-suspect-vehicle-in-fallbrook-e-bike-hit-and-run/81101.html
A large sinkhole opened up in Carlsbad Saturday morning affecting six lanes of El Camino Real and four lanes of Carlsbad Village Drive. Repairs began immediately and were ongoing as of this morning with traffic being diverted at eastbound Carlsbad Village Drive east of El Camino Real. https://www.nbcsandiego.com/news/local/local-emergency-declared-large-sinkhole-carlsbad/3970329/
A single vehicle accident sent a Toyota Camry off the right hand shoulder of eastbound Highway 76 at Horse Creek Ranch Road Saturday morning around 6:45a. The car was locked and the driver not present when first responders arrived. https://www.villagenews.com/story/2026/01/29/news/traffic-collision-reported-early-morning-on-eastbound-76/81100.html
Several dozen SDG&E customers lost power in the Southeast portion of Camp Pendleton this morning around 9:30a. It was expected to be restored by noon. https://www.sdge.com/residential/customer-service/outage-center/outage-map
Today is Groundhog Day. Before you begin your Bill Murray film marathon, here are some facts and stats about Pennsylvania’s famous weather-predicting rodent. German settlers brought with them the European tradition of watching badgers or hedgehogs to see what kind of weather they instinctively prepared for. Folklore held that if one of those animals saw his shadow on February 2, or Candlemas, the day clergy blessed candles, there would be six more weeks of winter. Here in America, they substituted groundhogs. According to the National Weather Service, the first official U.S. Groundhog Day was held in Punxsutawney, PA in 1887. Since then, the official Groundhog, Punxsutawney Phil – of whom there have been many over the years – has predicted a longer-lasting winter 108 times, an early spring 21 times, was a no-show once, and there are no records for ten other years. That means he predicted a longer winter 84% of the time. This morning, with tens of thousands of people gathered in 1 degree above zero weather, Phil told his handler he definitely saw his shadow. So, there will be six more weeks of winter, same as the last five times. By the way, according to the National Weather Service, Phil’s accuracy average is 38%. Tossing a coin would be more accurate. https://www.yahoo.com/news/us/article/groundhog-day-2026-punxsutawney-phil-sees-his-shadow-predicting-6-more-weeks-of-winter-122739121.html
Forget about Spring. In Pala, summer has been here for several days and will continue with highs in the 80s for at least another week. The full forecast is coming up. (below)
Mass at Pala Mission Church is broadcast live on Rez Radio 91.3 and streamed live on the Rez Radio App every Sunday at 8a.
SPORTS
In the NFL – The Pro-Bowl is tomorrow on ESPN at 5p from Moscone Center in San Francisco.
The Rams have signed coach Sean McVay and general manager Les Snead to multi-year contract extensions. Snead has been GM since 2012. McVay was hired in 2017. Since then, the Rams have had a 92 and 57 regular season record – 5th best in the NFL. https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/47807493/rams-sign-coach-sean-mcvay-gm-les-snead-multiyear-extensions
When it comes to stadium food, sometimes less is more. The Atlanta Falcons began the trend towards lower concessions prices in 2017 with its “fan first” menu. Beers that previously cost $8 were reduced to $5. $8 hot dogs were slashed to $2 and guess what? The team made more money with the new lower prices. Total transactions jumped 30%, merchandise sales rose 20%, and the average number of items per transaction increased 20%. That caused the idea to spread. In 2024, Ryan Smith’s NBA Jazz and NHL Mammoth rolled out several popular concession items between $2 and $3. Soon after, The Phoenix Suns and Baltimore Ravens announced similar value items. Just don’t expect any bargains at a Washington Commanders home game. According to AmericanCraftBeer.com, a 16-ounce beer at a Commanders game last season was $16.49 – the most expensive in the NFL. www.morningbrew.com
In the NBA – The Lakers and Clippers each won one and lost one over the weekend. The Knicks beat the Lakers 112-100 yesterday. The Clippers whupped Phoenix 117-93. Yesterday’s other winners were Boston, Detroit, Miami, Toronto, Washington, San Antonio, Cleveland and Oklahoma City. Four games tonight including the Clippers hosting Philadelphia.
LeBron James is an All-Star for the 22nd straight year. He’ll be a reserve for the February 15 mid-season showcase. At 41, he is the oldest current player. https://www.espn.com/nba/story/_/id/47802106/nba-all-star-game-reserves-named-lakers-lebron-james-earns-record-extending-22nd-selection
In college basketball – Five of the top ten teams all won against unranked opponents Saturday. UCF upset #11 Texas Tech and unranked Kentucky beat #15 Arkansas. Northridge topped UCSD 81-64. San Diego State lost at Utah State 71-66.
In NCAA women’s, UConn remains undefeated, topping #15 Tennessee 96-66. UCLA and Texas beat lesser ranked teams. #13 Michigan State upset #9 Michigan 94-91 in overtime.
In the NHL – Anaheim topped the visiting Golden Knights 4-3. The Kings lost at Carolina 3-2 in overtime. And Tampa Bay got by Boston 6-5 in a shootout.
In the minors – The San Diego Gulls beat Coachella Valley 4-3 Friday. And then did it again by the same score against Ontario Saturday. Their next game is tomorrow hosting Henderson.
In Major League Baseball – Euguenio Suarez has agreed to a one-year, $15m deal with Cincinnati. The 34-year old lingered for moths in free agency, even after blasting 49 home runs last season – most of which came in the first half of the season. https://www.espn.com/mlb/story/_/id/47801564/sources-reds-eugenio-suarez-reach-one-year-15m-deal
In lacrosse – The San Diego Seals beat the visiting Philadelphia Wings Saturday. Their next game is this Saturday hosting Saskatchewan.
In golf – At The Farmers Open at Torrey Pines, Justin Rose ran away with it, beating the three-way tie for second place by seven strokes with his 23-under par 265. He was the first wire-to-wire winner at Torrey Pines in 71-years. https://www.espn.com/golf/leaderboard
In tennis – After winning the opening set, Novak Djokovic was denied his 25th grand slam singles title by top-seeded Carlos Alcaraz who swept the next three sets at the Australian Open. https://www.espn.com/tennis/australian-open/bracket/_/season/2026/competitionType/1
The opening ceremonies for the Winter Olympics are this Friday on NBC. For the first time ever, two cities are hosting – Milan and Cortina d’Ampezzo, Italy.
Local High School Sports –
Bonsall – girls’ basketball at Chula Vista Learning Community Charter at 3:30p
Great Oak – no scheduled games today
Fallbrook – no schedule published
Valley Center – girls’ water polo hosting Rancho Buena Vista at 3:30p; boys’ basketball hosting St. Joseph Academy at 5:30p
BUSINE$$
As of midday trading on Wall Street, stocks were up. The Dow Jones Industrial Average gained over 1%. Caterpillar and Walmart led the advancers. The S&P 500 rose 7 tenths of a percent. And the Nasdaq was up almost 9 tenths. Gold fell $64 to $4,681.10 an ounce. It’s now down $1k from last week’s peak. Silver is down 31% from its record-high. West Texas Intermediate Crude oil futures plunged $3.37, or 5.1% to $61.84 a barrel.
House Speaker Mike Johnson is “confident” the latest government shutdown will end by tomorrow. He won’t be able to use the quickest way to pass legislation presented over the weekend by the Senate. The so-called, suspension of the rules requires bills to achieve a two thirds majority. The vote on funding most of the federal government for the rest of the year and the Department of Homeland security for just two weeks will be mostly along party lines. There are currently 218 Republican, 213 Democrat, and four vacant House seats. The shutdown is going to delay the Labor Department’s January jobs report. www.morningbrew.com
Walmart and Target each got new CEOs yesterday. Walmart’s John Furner began part time in the garden department of an Arkansas Supercenter 33 years ago. He’s been president and CEO of Sam’s Club since 2019. Target’s new head honcho is Michael Fiddelke. He worked his was up through Target’s ranks beginning as a finance intern in 2003. He became chief financial officer in 2019 and chief operating officer in 2024. There’s been a rash of CEO turnover to start 2026 as retailers try to find a magic key to challenging economic conditions. Speaking of “magic key”, Disney’s board of directors meets this week to vote on CEO Bob Iger’s replacement. www.morningbrew.com
Disney’s latest quarterly report topped analyst estimates. The experiences division including theme parks, resorts and cruises topped $10b in quarterly revenue for the first time. https://www.cnbc.com/2026/02/02/disney-dis-earnings-q1-26.html
The parent company of the Denny’s restaurant chain was acquired this month by a pair of investment firms and one of its largest franchisees for $620m. Denny’s has about 1,400 restaurants – down about 150 from two years ago. Also included in the deal are 78 Keke’s restaurants. https://patch.com/california/across-ca/major-chain-sold-620m-despite-recent-closures-see-remaining-ca-restaurants
LIFESTYLE / GREEN LIVING
Over the weekend at the movies, three new major releases placed first, second, and third in attendance. “Send Help” debuted in first with $20m on 3,500 screens. “Iron Lung” was second with $17.8m on 500 fewer screens. “Melania” defied predictions and sold $7m worth of tickets on half as many screens as Send Help. “Zootopia 2” dropped one place to fourth with $5.8m. “Shelter” debuted in 5th with $5.5m. “Avatar: Fire and Ash” dropped to 6th. It’s 7-week total of $386m is about average for the three Avatar films. It’s actually doing better internationally. The total for this weekend’s top ten was up significantly from last weekend, but still below average for the year so far. https://www.boxofficemojo.com/weekend/2026W05/
Kendrick Lamar and Bad Bunny cleaned up at last night’s Grammy Awards. The New York Times pointed out that could have been because for the first time in more than a decade Beyonce, Taylor Swift and/or Adele weren’t in the race for the gramophone statuettes. Lamar won Five awards including record of the year. With 27 total, he is now the most-decorated rap artist in Grammy history. Bad Bunny won album of the year for “Debi Tirar Mas Fotos”. Billie Eilish and Finneas won song of the year for “Wildflower”. Olivia Dean won for best new artist. www.morningbrew.com
Today’s water cooler talk about last night’s awards ceremonies centered on the great show-opening performance by Rosie and Bruno Mars. Alex Warren’s performance during the best new artist medley had technical difficulties as he struggled to say on tempo and the sound mix buried his vocals. Justin Bieber’s first major performance in four years wearing nothing but shiny silver boxing shorts and socks was odd, disjointed, and got a poor reaction on social media. Everyone loved Sabrina Carpenter’s airline-themed performance of “Manchild”. Trevor Noah was the host of last night’s awards for the sixth and final time – which is a good thing if he thinks roaming the audience and chatting up and singing Bad Bunny one of his own songs is a funny bit. Cher had a Warren Beatty-Faye Dunaway moment when she tried to walk away after her performance when she still needed to present the record of the year award. She then mistakenly announced the winner was Luther Vandross, instead of Kendrick Lamar for the song, “Luther”. For many, the highlight of the night was the tribute to the late Ozzy Osbourne, led by Post Malone, Slash and Duff McKagan from Guns N’ Roses, and Red Hot Chili Peppers’ drummer Chad Smith. And after decades of being carried on CBS, the Grammys will move to ABC next year. https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/music/articles/grammys-2026-best-worst-moments-044449390.html
Actor Demond Wilson passed away Saturday at the age of 79. He’s best remembered as Lamont on TV’s “Sanford and Son”. Wilson made his Broadway debut at age 4 and danced on stage at Harlem’s Apollo Theater when he was 12. Later in life, he became an ordained minister. His son told the New York Times his father had been battling prostate cancer. www.NYTimes.com
On this day in music history – February 2,
- 1959, Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens, and The Big Bopper gave their last performances at the Surf Ballroom in Clearlake, Iowa. All three died in a plane crash the following day.
- In 1962, The Beatles played their first professionally arranged gig outside of Liverpool at The Oasis Club in Manchester. Their first song was a cover of “Hippy Hippy Shake”.
- In 1969, Yoko Ono divorced husband, Tony Cox and was granted custody of their daughter, Kyoko. The following month she married John Lennon
- In 1973, keyboardist Keith Emerson of Emerson, Lake and Palmer injured his hands when a piano rigged to explode as a stunt detonated prematurely during a concert in San Francisco.
- In 1976, Genesis released their 7th studio album, “A Trick of the Tail”. It was the first featuring drummer Phil Collins as full-time lead vocalist following the departure of Peter Gabriel from the group. After auditioning over 400 potential vocalists with Collins teaching them the songs, the band decided on Collins to handle vocals.
- In 1979, Sex Pistols bass player Sid Vicious died of a heroin overdose in New York City. He’d been at a party celebrating his release on bail pending his trial for the murder of former girlfriend, Nancy Spungen the previous October.
- In 1993, Willie Nelson agreed to pay $9m of the $16.7m he owned the Internal Revenue Service. His accountants had not paid his taxes in years. This was compounded by numerous bad investments he’d made in the early 1980s.
- In 2002, The Phonographic Performance Ltd. launched the website PerformersMoney.com for recording artists to check to see if they were owed any of $17m in unclaimed royalties. The site showed that Michael Jackson was owed $170k for “Say Say Say”. Stevie Wonder had money owed for “Ebony and Ivory”. And Ray Davies of The Kinks was owed six figures for “You Really Got Me”.
- In 2004, CBS apologized for Janet Jackson’s infamous “wardrobe malfunction” during that week’s Super Bowl halftime show live broadcast. She and Justin Timberlake had been performing a raunchy duet when one of Jackson’s breasts became exposed as Timberlake pulled at her top.
- In 2007, Billy Henderson of The Spinners died at age 67 of complications from diabetes.
- In 2008, the Spice Girls cut short their reunion tour blaming “family and personal commitments”.
- In 2014, the band Skinny Puppy sent the U.S. government an invoice after learning that their music was being used as torture for prisoners at Guantanamo Bay. The band said that although they make unsettling music, they never envisioned it being used in that way and weren’t too happy about it.
- In 2021, Marilyn Manson was dropped by his record label following charges of abuse by actress Evan Rachel Wood.
Born on this day …
- In 1940, Alan Caddy, guitarist with The Tornadoes
- In 1942, Graham Nash from The Hollies and Crosby, Stills and Nash
- In 1943, Peter Macbeth from The Foundations who had chart-topping hits with “Baby Now That I’ve Found You” and “Build Me Up Buttercup”
- In 1945, Ronnie Goodson from John Fred and His Playboy Band, who had the 1968 #1 hit, “Judy in Disguise (with Glasses)”, a parody on the title of the previous year’s Beatles song, “Lucy in the Sky (with Diamonds)”
- In 1946, Howard Bellamy of The Bellamy Brothers who had a #1 hit in 1976 with “Let Your Love Flow”
- In 1948, Alan McKay from Earth, Wind & Fire
- In 1949, Ross Valory, bass player with Journey
- In 1951, Alphonso Johnson from jazz fusion group Weather Report
- In 1977, Shakira, the highest-selling Columbian artist of all time with 40m albums sold.
https://www.thisdayinmusic.com/born-on-this-day/
Other celebrity anniversaries today …
- Brent Spiner, best known as Lt. Commander Data on Star Trek the Next Generation is 76
- Among those who’ve passed, TV/movie/stage actress Elaine Stritch was born in 1925
- Carl Wright from the movies, “Big Momma’s House” and “Barbershop” was born in 1932
- TV Soap Opera actor, Robert Mandan was also born in 1932
- Comedian Tom Smothers was born in 1937
- Actress and 70’s poster queen, Farrah Fawcett was born in 1947
http://www.davesfunstuff.com/a-mb/2080-date0202.htm
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Pala seniors’ lunch menu for tomorrow (2/3) – Chimichangas, Spanish rice, vegetables and dessert
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WEATHER
Pala Weather – sunny with a high of 80 this afternoon … 85 tomorrow … 89 Wednesday with winds gusting up to 20 miles an hour … 84 Thursday … partly sunny and 79 Friday … 80 Saturday … 82 Sunday … overnight lows, 47 tonight … 50 tomorrow night … 55 Wednesday night … 50 Thursday night … about 48 Friday and Saturday night
PROGRAMMING
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FIRE PERMITS
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PALA
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