Pala Today News – 2/16/26
Written by John Fox on February 16, 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
Escondido Police confirm two men were stabbed during a fight Saturday evening around 7p near West Valley Parkway. The fight was believed to be gang-related. Neither victim’s injuries were life-threatening. https://www.newsbreak.com/fox-5-san-diego-1589916/4493997528664-two-men-stabbed-during-suspected-gang-related-altercation-in-escondido
A six-vehicle crash on southbound I-5 near Cannon Road in Carlsbad just after 12:20a Saturday morning sent one person to the hospital. It began when a motorcycle rear-ended a vehicle and went down in lanes. A sedan then struck the downed motorcycle, causing a chain reaction that involved three additional vehicles. Following the impact, the sedan caught fire and was quickly engulfed in flames with the motorcycle trapped underneath. One person was transported to a hospital with injuries of unknown severity. The crash scattered debris forcing a temporary closure of all southbound lanes and led to a fight between two people on the right shoulder before first responders arrived. https://www.villagenews.com/story/2026/02/12/news/fiery-6-vehicle-crash-on-i-5-in-carlsbad-sends-1-to-hospital/81216.html
The driver of a tractor-trailer rig was arrested for suspected DUI in the pre-dawn hours this morning in Fallbrook after hitting a power pole and a tree on East Mission Road near North Stage Coach Lane. The truck, with its top and side ripped away continued for at least a mile before stopping. It took a couple of hours to clean up the damage and pick up lost cargo. https://www.villagenews.com/story/2026/02/12/news/span-classbrnwsbreaking-news-spansemi-truck-driver-arrested-for-suspected-dui-after-shearing-roof-off-trailer-in-fallbrook/81219.html
Today is President’s Day, a federal holiday that originally began as George Washington’s Birthday, celebrated on the third Monday of each month. Since 16th President, Abraham Lincoln’s birthday is just ten days before Washington’s, the day came to honor him as well. It has since evolved to honor all Presidents. Stock markets and banks are closed today. Government offices, courts and schools are closed. Most stores are open. National parks are not only open, they’re free today – one of four free days each year. https://apnews.com/article/presidents-day-holiday-stores-open-closed-4f4955a83d4b04a3e49078ebc0b95b50
A pair of major winter storms arrive over the next three days in Pala. The first one could bring up to 2 inches now through tomorrow afternoon. The second one hits tomorrow night with up to another inch through Wednesday. The local snow level is 5k feet and will drop lower towards the middle of the week. The full forecast is coming up. (below)
SPORTS
At the Winter Olympics – US Women’s hockey shut out Sweden 5-0 to advance to the finals against the winner of the Canada-Switzerland game. The US Men’s team is still unbeaten, taking Germany 5-1 yesterday. They’ll next face the quarterfinal winner of the Sweden-Latvia game. Sweden is the only team with a full roster of NHL players. In the medal count, Norway leads with 27 including 12 gold. Italy is second with 22 – 8 of them gold. The U.S. is third with 17 including five gold. Japan also has 17 with 3 gold. Only the Netherlands has more gold than the U.S. They have 6, but are 8th overall with 12 total. https://www.espn.com/olympics/winter/2026/medals
In the NBA – In yesterday’s All-Star Break games at Intuit Dome in Los Angeles, in an all-new tournament format Team Stars edged the World Team 37-35 in overtime. Team Stripes got by Team Stars 42-20. Team Stripes then beat World Team 48-45. And in yesterday’s final game, Team Stars routed Team Stripes 47-21. At the Rising Stars showcase Friday, Rookie of the Year contender VJ Edgecombe took home MVP honors. Saturday, Damian Lillard won the 3-point contest. Miami’s Keshad Johnson won the dunk contest. Team Knicks, with Jalen Brunson, Karl-Anthony Towns and Allan Houston won the Shooting Stars competition. The regular season resumes Thursday.
In the minors – The San Diego Clippers next game is Saturday.
In college basketball – After an overtime loss to #16 Texas Tech on Saturday, Arizona has been replaced at #1 by Michigan, who routed UCLA 86-56. The other Top Ten teams all won their games over the weekend.
In women’s NCAA – #2 UCLA demolished Indiana 92-48 yesterday. But UConn will remain #1 after beating Marquette 71-56 Saturday.
In the NHL – The regular season is on hold until after the Winter Olympics.
In the minors – The San Diego Gulls split a pair of games against the Bakersfield Condors, winning 3-1 on the road Friday and losing 5-4 Saturday at Pechanga Arena. Their next game is Wednesday hosing San Jose.
In the NFL – The Miami Dolphins have released wide receiver Tyreek Hill, offensive lineman James Daniels and wide receiver Nick Westbrook-Ikhine to gain cap space. Linebacker Bradley Chubb was also notified he will be released, just not when. The moves will save the team $23m to $30m, depending on whether Chubb is released immediately. https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/47947892/sources-dolphins-release-8-pro-bowl-wr-tyreek-hill
In Major League Baseball – The first games of Spring Training are this Friday.
In the minor leagues – The Lake Elsinore Storm
In soccer – The San Diego Sockers won 7-6 in a shootout at Kansas City Saturday. They lost 5-4 in overtime to the Strykers at Frontwave Arena yesterday. Their next game is this Saturday at Tacoma.
In lacrosse – The San Diego Seals beat the Firewolves 13-7 Saturday at Oshawa. Their next game is Saturday hosting Halifax.
In golf – At the Pro Am at Pebble Beach, Colin Morikawa won with a 22-under par 266 – one stroke ahead of Min Woo Lee and Sepp Straka. https://www.espn.com/golf/leaderboard
In racing – At yesterday’s Daytona 500, Tyler Reddick worked his way up from a 26th position start to win with a crazy final lap that had him in a three-way tie for third at the start of the lap and dodging spinning cars in front and behind him on the final turn, ending up first at the checkered flag. https://www.espn.com/racing/nascar/story/_/id/47943611/tyler-reddick-nascar-daytona-500-win-buzzer-beater-befitting-23xi-boss-michael-jordan
Local High School Sports – no class today for President’s Day. Any outdoor games today and tomorrow are likely to be cancelled due to rain.
Bonsall – no scheduled games today
Great Oak – boys’ volleyball at a tournament at Crescenta Valley all day; boys’ lacrosse hosting Liberty Winchester at 5p
Fallbrook – no scheduled published
Valley Center – no scheduled games today
BUSINE$$
The stock markets are closed today for President’s Day. After hours trading is causing a little movement. The Dow gained a tenth of a percent. The S&P was up about half that much. And the Nasdaq fell two tenths. Gold was down $30.50 on the Comex, trading at $5,015.80 an ounce. West Texas Intermediate Crude oil futures were up 92 cents at $63.81 a barrel.
The Lunar New Year begins tomorrow. It’s the Year of the Horse and it promises to be a good one for luxury brands in China, the biggest celebrant of Lunar New Year. After years of decline, the Chinese luxury market is recovering. Jeweler Harry Winston unveiled an $81,500 rose gold watch with diamond bezels and a red lacquer horse. Gucci, Chloe and other fashion houses have $250 scarves and $5k shoulder bags with the horse motif and are selling well. Analysts say Chinese consumers accounted for about one third of the world’s luxury goods sold before the pandemic. It dipped to 23% after, but is regaining share. The big difference is where those goods come from. Before the pandemic, most Chinese luxury shopping was done abroad. Last year, overseas spending made up only one third. Chinese consumers are no longer wowed by Western brands. https://www.cnbc.com/2026/02/14/lunar-new-year-luxury-china.html
EV maker Rivian released fourth quarter numbers last week which beat Wall Street expectations. The company achieved its first annual gross profit, mainly thanks to its software and joint services venture with Volkswagen. It’s still losing money on the vehicles it sells. The company expects to deliver between 62k and 67k new vehicles this year. That would be about 1 ½ times the number of units delivered in 2025. The market for expensive EVs has slowed. So, Rivian will rely more on its new R2 midsize vehicle priced at about $45k moving forward. Up until now, all it had was a $75k pickup truck and even more expensive SUV. Shares in Rivian traded up about 20% Friday. https://www.cnbc.com/2026/02/12/rivian-automotive-rivn-earnings-q4-2025.html
LIFESTYLE / GREEN LIVING
Over the weekend at the movie box office, “Wuthering Heights”, from the classic romance novel by Emily Bronte starring Margo Robbie and Jacob Elordi opened in first place with $34.8m in ticket sales. “GOAT” debuted in second with $26m, and “Crime 101” opened in third place with $15.1m. Last week’s top film, “Send Help” dropped to fourth with $8.9m on 500 fewer screens. Its per-screen average actually improved from last week. The Sam Rockwell dark comedy, “Good Luck, Have Fun, Don’t Die” opened in 7th place with $3.6m on half as many screens as the top three films. The first three days of Presidents Day weekend was the second-best movie-going weekend this year with more than double the attendance of last weekend. https://www.boxofficemojo.com/weekend/2026W07/
Actor Robert Duvall died yesterday at the age of 95. Duvall has been a star since his breakout role as Boo Radley in the 1962 movie “To Kill A Mockingbird.” He won a Best Actor Oscar in 1983 for his role in “Tender Mercies” and was known for bringing gravitas to small roles in big films such as “Apocalypse Now,” in which he uttered the unforgettable line, “I love the smell of napalm in the morning.” He played Maj. Frank Burns in the movie version of “M*A*S*H” and a villainous executive in “Network.” Before his death, he had lived on a horse farm in Virginia’s Fauquier County, an hour outside Washington. https://patch.com/california/hollywood/robert-duvall-dead-95-one-greatest-actors-our-time
On this day in music history – February 16,
- 1964, one week after the first one, The Beatles made their second of three appearances on the Ed Sullivan Show as part of their first trip to America. It was also their final live appearance. The third one the following week had been videotaped just before the first live one on February 9th. This second performance was broadcast live from the Deauville Hotel in Miami Beach where an audience of five times as many screaming teenagers could attend as could at the 700-seat Ed Sullivan Theater in New York. The group performed “She Loves You”, “This Boy”, “All My Loving”, “I Saw Her Standing There”, “From Me to You”, and “I Want to Hold Your Hand.”
- In 1967, Petula Clark was at #1 with “This is My Song”, written by Charlie Chaplin.
- In 1972, Led Zeppelin made their live debut in Australia in the city of Perth. Police battled 500 fans who rammed locked gates trying to get into the concert. Over 4k fans without tickets stood outside the venue. Police phone lines were jammed with noise complaints.
- In 1974, Bob Dylan had his first #1 album with “Planet Waves”
- On the same day, the members of Emerson, Lake & Palmer were arrested in Salt Lake City for swimming naked in their hotel pool. Each was fined $75.
- In 1975, The Cher Show, the follow-up to The Sonny & Cher Show, which she’d hosted with her ex-husband Sonny Bono debuted on CBS television.
- In 1985, Bruce Springsteen topped the British album chart with “Born in the USA”. It was the best-selling album of 1985 and produced a record-tying seven Top 10 singles.
- In 1991, the novelty song “Do the Bartman”, written by Michael Jackson and performed by The Simpsons became the first cartoon character song to hit #1 since “Sugar Sugar” by the Archies in 1969. But unlike The Archies, it was only #1 in the UK.
- In 2004, soul singer Doris Tory died, she’d sung backup on the Rolling Stones’ “You Can’t always Get What You Want”, Pink Floyd’s “Dark Side of the Moon” album, George Harrison’s “My Sweet Lord”, and Carly Simon’s “You’re So Vain” among others.
- In 2005, Yusef Islam, previously known as Cat Stevens was awarded substantial damages from two newspapers who’d printed articles alleging he was involved in terrorism.
- In 2015, singer, songwriter and actress Lesley Gore died of lung cancer at age 68.
Born on this day …
- In 1932, songwriter and producer Otis Blackwell who worked on many early Elvis hits
- In 1935, singer, songwriter, producer, actor and politician Sonny Bono. He made hit records with then-wife Cher as Sonny and Cher after having worked for Phil Spector in the early 60s. He served as mayor of Palm Springs, then Republican Congressman for the 44th District from 1995 until his death in a skiing accident in 1998.
- In 1956, soul singer James Ingram
- In 1959, Ice-T – real name Tracy Morrow
- In 1961, Andy Taylor, guitarist with Duran Duran
- In 1965, Dave Lombardo, drummer with Slayer
- In 1990, Canadian singer, songwriter and record producer, Abel Makkonen Tesfave, better known as The Weeknd.
https://www.thisdayinmusic.com/search/?keyword=&date=16&month=2
Other celebrity anniversaries today …
- Actor Levar Burton is 68
- Among those who’ve passed, actor, comedian and ventriloquist Edgar Bergen was born this day in 1903
- Actor Hugh Beaumont, best remembered as Ward Cleaver on TV’s “Leave It To Beaver” was born in 1909
- Actress Lisa Loring, who beginning at age 6 played Wednesday on TV’s “The Addams Family” and as an adult joined the cast of “As the World Turns” was born in 1958.
http://www.davesfunstuff.com/a-mb/2080-date0216.htm
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WEATHER
Pala Weather – up to an inch of rain, heavy at times with winds gusting up to 35 miles an hour and a high of 60 this afternoon … up to another inch tonight with snow in the mountains above 5k feet … up to a quarter inch more rain tomorrow in Pala with continued wind gusts up to 25 miles an hour with a high of 60 … 58 with rain ending midday Wednesday … partly sunny and 59 with a slight chance of showers Thursday … mostly sunny and 62 with a continued slight chance of rain Friday … sunny and 68 Saturday … mostly sunny and 74 Sunday … overnight lows, 42 tonight and tomorrow night … 38 Wednesday and Thursday night … 36 Friday night … 41 Saturday night
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