Pala Today News – 2/5/26
Written by John Fox on February 5, 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.
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LOCAL AND REGIONAL NEWS
Two days ago, ABC News aired an interview with three of the youngest Turpin children, the Perris family that made national headlines ten years ago for child abuse and imprisonment. After being taken away from their biological parents, the youngest ones were placed in yet another abusive household by Riverside County. Details of what ABC said was an undisclosed settlement for that case have now been revealed. Riverside County will pay $2.25m and the foster family agency ChildNet will pay $11.25m, with the $13.5m total to be split between the six out of 13 Turpin children who were placed with foster families. www.pe.com
Riverside jury selection could be complete today in the trial of 53-year old Santos Erasmo Garcia from Lake Elsinore, who’s charged with nearly two dozen felony counts, mostly involving sexual assault of three young girls between 2010 and 2017. He fled to Guatemala when he found he was being investigated. The youngest victim was age 5 when the alleged crimes began. Working in cooperation with Guatemalan authorities, Garcia was arrested and extradited to the US in 2023. https://patch.com/california/lakeelsinore-wildomar/opening-statements-possible-thursday-trial-lake-elsinore-man
A two-vehicle crash on South Mission at Hancock Roads in Fallbrook Tuesday evening, blocked both lanes with one driver trapped for a time. The T-Bone accident happened around 6:45p. No report on injuries. The accident was cleared about an hour later. https://www.villagenews.com/story/2026/01/29/news/collision-blocks-lanes-traps-driver-on-south-mission-road/81106.html
The wind is dying down and the threat of rain in Pala tonight has pretty much dried up. We’ll get a better shot at some next week. The full forecast is coming up. (below)
SPORTS
In the NFL – Awards for league MVP and seven other categories will be presented at tonight’s NFL Honors in San Francisco. 50 members of the media voted before the playoffs began, selecting the top five in each category. First place votes were worth 10 points. Second through fifth place votes were worth 5, 3, 2, and 1 point. In addition to Most Valuable Player, awards will be given for Coach of the Year, Assistant Coach of the Year, Comeback Player of the Year, Defensive and Offensive Players of the Year, and Defensive and Offensive Rookies of the Year. https://apnews.com/article/nfl-mvp-awards-1f6a4d94a8ffcdd5844855c5d4ba510a
Super Bowl 60 with the Patriots against the Seahawks is this Sunday on NBC. Controversy over having Puerto Rican, Bad Bunny as the star of halftime has led to the late Charlie Kirk’s conservative organization, Turning Point USA scheduling an alternative halftime show across its social platforms. It’ll be headlined by longtime Trump supporter, Kid Rock, who’ll be joined by country artists Brantley Gilbert, Lee Brice and Gabby Barrett. https://www.politico.com/news/2026/02/02/turning-point-usa-super-bowl-halftime-show-00761040
In the NBA – The visiting Cavaliers routed the Clippers 124-91. Last night’s other winners were Minnesota, Boston, Milwaukee, San Antonio, Memphis, and New York 134-127 in double overtime against Denver. Eight games tonight including the Lakers hosting Philadelphia.
In college basketball – Unranked Portland surprised #6 Gonzaga 87-80. Unranked Minnesota upset #10 Michigan State. And unranked Oklahoma State beat #16 BYU. USD lost at St. Mary’s 87-60.
In NCAA women’s, UConn demolished DePaul 86-40 to remain #1. #2 UCLA routed Rutgers 86-46.
In the NHL – Last night’s winners were Florida, Columbus, Montreal, Minnesota, Colorado, Utah, Dallas, Calgary, Vegas and Seattle 4-2 over the Kings in Los Angeles.
The Kings have acquired star forward Artemi Panerin from the New York Rangers in exchange for prospect Liam Greentree and two future conditional picks. Panerin will get a two-year contract extension worth an average of $11m per year. https://www.espn.com/nhl/story/_/id/47829095/sources-rangers-send-artemi-panarin-kings-trade-freeze
In the minors – The San Diego Gulls beat Henderson 7-4 last night at Pechanga Arena. Their next game is Friday at Bakersfield. They turn around and host the Condors on Saturday.
In Major League Baseball – The Padres and outfielder Miguel Andujar have agreed to a $4m, one-year deal, subject to a physical. The 30-year old hit .318 with ten home runs and 44 RBIs last year with the As and Reds. He finished second to Shohei Ohtani in AL Rookie of the Year voting in 2018. https://www.espn.com/mlb/story/_/id/47834202/miguel-andujar-agrees-1-year-4-million-deal-padres
Sheel Seidler has dropped most of the claims in a lawsuit challenging the Seidler family for control of the Padres. The move clears one obstacle to the potential sale of the team. https://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/sports/
In lacrosse – The San Diego Seals next game is this Saturday hosting Saskatchewan.
In golf – The Phoenix Open teed off this morning. Thomas Detry is the defending champion. Matt Fitzpatrick and Chris Gotterup led through 16 at 8 under par. https://www.espn.com/golf/leaderboard
The opening ceremonies for the Winter Olympics are tomorrow on NBC.
Local High School Sports –
Bonsall – basketball hosting Cristo Rey, girls’ at 4:30p, boys’ at 6p
Great Oak – girls’ water polo hosting San Dimas at Charter Oak for CIF first round at 3:30p
Fallbrook – no schedule published
Valley Center – girls’ water polo hosting Sage Creek at 3:30p; boys’ wrestling at Del Norte at 5:30p
BUSINE$$
As of midday trading on Wall Street, stocks fell on all three major US exchanges. The Dow was down 8 tenths of a percent. The S&P 500 was off by 9 tenths. And the Nasdaq was down a full percent. Gold took a dive as well, falling almost $60 to $4,890 an ounce on the Comex. West Texas Intermediate Crude oil futures were down $1.52 to $63.62 a barrel.
Bitcoin has fallen below $70k for the first time in over a year.
The Labor Department’s January jobs report will be released February 11 – several days late due to the three-day government shutdown earlier this week. It’s expected to show the economy is barely adding any new jobs. That’s based on statistics released by Challenger, Gray & Christmas showing US employers cutting more than twice as many jobs last month as they did one year earlier. It was the highest January job cuts since 2009. Transportation and tech sectors were hit the hardest, mainly due to 16k job cuts announced by Amazon. https://www.challengergray.com/blog/challenger-report-january-job-cuts-surge-lowest-january-hiring-on-record/
Bob’s Discount Furniture held its Initial Public Offering today, opening at $17 a share – the low end of what was expected. By afternoon, shares were still in that range, valuing the company at around $2.2b. The Connecticut-based company has about 206 showrooms in 26 states and plans to grow that to over 500 by 2035. Today’s IPO is expected to raise about $300m towards that end. Bob’s strategy is to carry about one third fewer items than other value-oriented competitors, but price that value-focused furniture 10% below competitors and up to 25% lower than their listed prices. https://www.cnbc.com/2026/02/05/bobs-discount-furniture-bobs-to-start-trading-on-nyse-after-ipo.html
80 years ago, Minute Maid helped make orange juice a year-round staple at the breakfast table when it began shipping frozen concentrated orange juice all over the country. Coca-Cola, the company that now owns Minute Maid said yesterday, it will discontinue making frozen orange juice, lemonade and limeade by April. It says consumers prefer the ready-to-drink juice that it introduced to the refrigerated case instead of the freezer in 1973. Minute Maid is also competing against energy drinks and protein smoothies, battling the stigma of added sugar, and struggling with skyrocketing fruit prices due to poor weather in Florida and Brazil. A 12-ounce can of frozen OJ cost $4.82 in December. That’s up 13% from a year ago. Meanwhile, sales of frozen beverages are down 8% over that same time. https://www.cbsnews.com/news/minute-maid-frozen-oj-concentrate-production-ending/
LIFESTYLE / GREEN LIVING
We lost a pair of music contemporaries this week. Both of them were members of groups specializing in vocal harmonies on songs written by others, including Jimmy Webb, Laura Nyro, Harry Nilsson, Hoyt Axton, Neil Sedaka, John Phillips, Paul Williams and Randy Newman.
Chuck Negron was a singer-songwriter and one of three lead vocalists for Three Dog Night. Originally from New York City, he and his twin sister grew up in the Bronx where he sang in local doo-wop groups and played basketball pickup games and in high school. He was recruited to play basketball at a small community college in Santa Maria, and later at Cal State Los Angeles. Singer Danny Hutton invited Negron to join him and Cory Wells to found Three Dog Night, which became one of the most successful bands of the late 1960s and early 1970s. Hits featuring Negron singing lead include “One”, “Easy to Be Hard”, “Joy to the World”, “An Old Fashioned Love Song”, and “Pieces of April”. He developed a heroin addiction in the early 1970s. Drugs and ego clashes led Three Dog Night to disband in 1976. After many tries at rehab, Negron kicked his addiction in 1991 and returned to singing as a solo. His autobiography, “Three Dog Nightmare” was published in 1999. Negron was married four times and had three daughters and a son. He died of heart failure and COPD at his home in Studio City on Monday at the age of 83. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chuck_Negron
Lamonte McLemore was best known as a founding member of The 5th Dimension. He grew up in St. Louis and worked as an aerial photographer upon joining the Navy straight out of high school. He was the first African American to try out for the St. Louis Cardinals and did briefly play on a Dodgers minor league team after moving to LA. McLemore and a partner founded Halmont Graphics in 1958. He became the first African American photographer for Harper’s Bazaar magazine and shot the cover for Stevie Wonder’s first album. He photographed for Jet and Ebony magazines for over 40 years. It was on a shoot for the Miss Black Beauty Pageant that he met Marilyn McCoo and Florence LaRue, which eventually led to them forming a group along with Billy Davis and Ron Townson, a pair of McLemore’s friends from St. Louis in 1965. Originally calling themselves The Versatiles, they changed to The 5th Dimension the following year at the insistence of Johnny Rivers, whose Soul City Records label had just signed them. Between 1967 and 1973, The 5th Dimension had 20 Top 40 hits including two chart-toppers … “Aquarius/Let the Sunshine In” and “Wedding Bell Blues”. McLemore wrote and published an autobiography in 2014. He died Tuesday at his home in Las Vegas at the age of 90. He is survived by his second wife, two children and three grandchildren. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lamonte_McLemore
On this day in music history – February 5,
- In 1962, The Beatles played a lunchtime show at The Cavern Club and an evening gig at Kingsway Club in Southport. Drummer Pete Best was sick. Ringo Starr filled in, appearing live with the group for the first time.
- On the same day, Ray Charles began recording “Modern Sounds in Country and Western Music” at Capitol Records in New York City. The lead single, “I Can’t Stop Loving You” became a huge country music hit.
- In 1966, Petula Clark had her second chart-topping hit with “My Love”, making her the first British female to have two #1 hits in the U.S.
- In 1967, The Beatles filmed some of their promo clip for “Penny Lane” in multiple locations in London. Along with the film for “Strawberry Fields Forever” these became some of the first examples of the art form that would eventually become music videos.
- In 1969, The Move had a #1 hit in the UK with “Blackberry Way”. The group evolved into The Electric Light Orchestra two years later, eventually re-recording the Move song “Do Ya” which became a hit for ELO in 1976.
- In 1971, Black Sabbath began recording their third album, “Master of Reality”.
- In 1972, Paul Simon released his first single without Art Garfunkel. “Mother and Child Reunion” peaked at #4. He got the idea for the song title from a chicken and egg dish on a menu at a Chinese restaurant.
- On the same day, T Rex was at #1 in England with “Telegram Sam” from The Slider album. The song lyrics popularized the term, “main man”.
- In 1983, Def Leppard’s album “Pyromainia” began the first of 92 weeks on the charts, never reaching #1.
- In 1998, guitarist from Slaugher, Tim Kelly died in a head-on accident when an 18-wheeler crossed into his path on Highway 96 in Arizona.
- In 2004, Janet Jackson’s right breast gained immortality in the infamous “wardrobe malfunction” during her Super Bowl halftime performance with Justin Timberlake. It instantly became one of the most searched-for images in internet history.
- Two years later in 2006, The Rolling Stones performed three songs during Super Bowl from Detroit. The group expressed their displeasure at having Mick Jagger’s mic turned down during two questionable lyrics.
- In 2013, Paul Tanner, a former member of the Glenn Miller Orchestra who later developed and played the Electro-Theramin on The Beach Boys’ “Good Vibrations”, “Wild Honey” and “I Just Wasn’t Made for These Times” along with the theme from TV’s “My Favorite Martian” died at the age of 95.
- In 2016, a new species of black tarantula that lives near Folsom Prison was named after Johnny Cash.
Born on this day …
- In 1929, session drummer for The Wrecking Crew, Hal Blaine. He played on 40 #1 hits, over 150 Top Ten hits and a total of around 35k pieces of recorded music over four decades.
- In 1941, Motown recording star Barrett Strong
- In 1942, Corey Wells, one of the three lead singers from Three Dog Night
- In 1943, Chuck Winfield, trumpet player with Blood, Sweat & Tears.
- In 1944, songwriter, producer and musician Al Kooper, who is credited with organizing Blood, Sweat & Tears but didn’t stick around long enough to share in their success.
- In 1948, David Denny, guitarist with The Steve Miller Band
- In 1964, Duff McKagan, bass player with Guns N’ Roses
- In 1968, Chris Barron, lead singer with The Spin Doctors
- In 1969, Bobby Brown
https://www.thisdayinmusic.com/on-this-day-in-music-february-5/
Other celebrity anniversaries today …
- Actor David Selby from TV’s “Dark Shadows” and “Falcon Crest” is 85.
- Former NFL quarterback Roger Staubach is 84.
- Actress Charlotte Rampling is 80.
- Actress Barbara Hershey is 78.
- Actor, Christopher Guest is 78. Best known for the mockumentary, “This is Spinal Tap”, he’s married to Jamie Lee Curtis.
- Actor Tim Meadows is 65. He currently stars in TV’s “DMV”.
- Actress Jennifer Jason Leigh is 64. She’s the daughter of Janet Lee and Vic Morrow.
- Actress Laura Linney is 62.
- Actor Chris Parnell from “Archer” is 59.
- Among those who’ve passed, comedian Red Buttons was born in 1919
- Major League Baseball’s Hank Aaron was born in 1934
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WEATHER
Pala Weather – partly sunny with a high of 86 this afternoon … no rain for us, but a slight chance in the mountains tonight … mostly sunny and 74 tomorrow … sunny and 77 Saturday … 82 Sunday … 79 Monday … 69 Tuesday and 67 Wednesday with a chance of rain both days … overnight lows, 45 tonight and tomorrow night … about 48 Saturday through Monday night … 44 Tuesday night
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