Pala Today News – 2/24/26
Written by John Fox on February 24, 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 residential house fire was reported in the 1900 block of St. Peter’s Drive in Fallbrook just before 5a today. One victim was transported to UCSD burn center with non-life-threatening smoke inhalation injuries. The house was completely destroyed. https://www.villagenews.com/story/2026/02/19/news/span-classbrnwsbreaking-news-spanhome-destroyed-in-early-morning-fire/81279.html
Fallbrook Public Utility District pipeline work will cross East Mission Road at Iowa Street today through Thursday. Drivers can expect one-lane traffic with flaggers from 7a to 4:30p all three days. https://www.villagenews.com/story/2026/02/19/news/span-classbrnwsbreaking-news-spanpotential-traffic-delay-heads-up-fallbrook/81276.html
State Assemblyman Jeff Gonzalez has introduced AB 1745 – legislation to suspend California’s 61-cent per gallon state gas tax for one year, with all savings to be passed directly to consumers including transparency in the form of itemized tax savings on fuel receipts. https://northcountydailystar.com/assemblyman-introduces-bill-to-suspend-61%c2%a2-state-gas-tax-amid-high-prices/
If you haven’t gone to the local mountains to play in the snow yet, you’ve just about missed it. There’s only a little left above 5,500 feet on Palomar and it’s melting fast with this week’s unseasonably warm weather.
Pala’s heat wave should peak at about 90 on Friday, then cool off considerably over the weekend. The full forecast is coming up. (below)
SPORTS
The gold medal-winning US women’s hockey team has politely declined an invitation from President Trump to attend tonight’s State of the Union address. In a statement issued yesterday, the team cited timing and prior commitments. Many of the players weren’t scheduled to arrive back in North America until last evening and some have PWHL league games scheduled for today. While inviting the men’s team on Sunday night, Trump joked that if he did not also invite the women’s team he’d probably be impeached. Members of the men’s team have confirmed they will be attending tonight’s speech even though it could also be scheduling challenge for them with NHL play resuming tomorrow. They arrived back in the US on an earlier chartered flight than the women’s commercial flights yesterday. https://apnews.com/article/trump-state-of-union-womens-hockey-gold-medal-2311fcc12756a72d8733f0f8c12116f8
In the NBA – Yesterday’s winners were San Antonio, Houston and the last-place Sacramento Kings, who ended a franchise-worst 16-game losing streak. Eleven games tonight including the 5th place Lakers hosting Orlando.
In the minors – The San Diego Clippers next game is tonight in Edinburg, Texas against the Rio Grande Valley Vipers.
In college basketball – #14 Kansas upset #5 Houston 69-56 last night.
Duke is the new #1 team on the AP Top 25, trading places with now third-place Michigan who they beat over the weekend. Arizona’s upset win over Houston moves them to #2. Iowa State moved up two places to #4. Houston is now at #5. UConn dropped one place to #6. Florida shot up five places to #7. The Coaches Poll matched the AP for #1 through #3. It reversed Iowa State and Houston at #4 and #5. https://www.espn.com/mens-college-basketball/rankings
In the NHL – The regular season resumes tomorrow.
In the minors – The San Diego Gulls next game is tomorrow hosting Tucson.
In Major League Baseball Pre-Season – The Padres beat the Brewers 7-5. The Dodgers shut out Seattle 3-0. Texas shut out the Angels 6-0.
The Atlanta Braves announced today that they are launching their own network to air 140 games this season rather than have Major League Baseball produce and distribute them. Six out of the nine teams who formerly contracted with the failed Main Street Sports Group went with MLB. The Braves, Tigers and Angels did not. https://www.espn.com/mlb/story/_/id/48022702/braves-launching-own-network-air-140-games
In soccer – The San Diego Sockers next game is Friday hosting Tacoma.
In lacrosse – The San Diego Seals next game is Friday at Denver.
In racing – The 2026 Indycar season begins Sunday in the streets of St. Petersburg.
Local High School Sports –
Bonsall – no scheduled games today
Great Oak – boys’ golf against Cathedral Catholic at 3p; boys’ tennis against Santiago at 3p, varsity hosting, JV away; baseball hosting Centennial at 3:15p; girls’ lacrosse at Corona at 4p; boys’ lacrosse hosting Linfield Christian at 5p; boys’ volleyball at Poly at 5p
Fallbrook – no scheduled published
Valley Center – boys’ golf hosting Mt. Carmel at Native Oaks at 3p; boys’ tennis against La Costa Canyon at 3:30p, JV hosting, varsity away; girls’ lacrosse hosting West Hills at 5:30p
BUSINE$$
As of midday trading on Wall Street, stocks gained back some of yesterday’s losses. The Dow was up 9 tenths of a percent. The S&P 500 gained almost 8 tenths. And the Nasdaq rose a full percent. Comex gold was down $50.30, trading at $5,175.70 an ounce. The benchmark West Texas Intermediate Crude oil futures were down 37 cents at $65.94 a barrel.
Novo Nordisk announced today that it will slash the monthly list price of its popular GLP-1 and diabetes drugs by up to 50% starting next year. This includes the obesity injection Wegovy and its pill counterpart, the diabetes shot Ozempic and the diabetes pill Rybelsus. All will list at $675 per month beginning January 1. The move is to make the treatments more accessible to patients with insurance coverage whose out-of-pocket costs are linked to drug list prices. It should also help Novo Nordisk compete with Eli Lilly, who currently have the majority of the GLP-1 market. https://www.cnbc.com/2026/02/24/novo-nordisk-to-slash-wegovy-ozempic-us-list-prices-by-up-to-50percent.html
Warner Bros. Discovery has received a new takeover offer from Paramount which it will now review. Meanwhile, it is still recommending to its shareholders the competing offer from Netflix, which it approved in December. Netflix only wants Warner’s studio and streaming business. Paramount wants the entire company, which could raise federal anti-trust concerns. Politics could also come into play since President Trump has a close relationship with billionaire founder of Oracle, Larry Ellison who is also the father of Paramount Skydance CEO David Ellison. Shareholders are set to vote on the Netflix proposal on March 20. https://apnews.com/article/warner-bros-netflix-paramount-studio-hollywood-1d2cf2c65ed6aceb4e34811d68e987ac
FedEx has become the latest major company to sue to federal government for a refund of tariffs set last year by the President that have now been ruled illegal. More than 1k companies have filed with the U.S. Court of International Trade – most of them before Friday’s Supreme Court decision. Experts believe each case will probably be tried individually if the government doesn’t offer to honor refund claims. Over $133b in collected tariffs now in the Federal Treasury is at stake. https://apnews.com/article/fedex-tariff-trump-supreme-court-costco-9c9cf3062b780dd8ce9f23f5c30891a0
When financial times are bad, people can either hunker down or double down and start to take chances. According to a new nationwide survey by online financial marketplace site Credible.com, they’re doubling down by making risky financial choices. More than three out of four Americans are currently taking financial risks. Led by Gen Z, 60% buy or sell stocks on their own. 40% have invested in cryptocurrency, over one third have done online betting, 27% participate in online casino gambling, 17% do options trading, and 8% play in prediction markets. Their average annual investment is $3k. 85% believe that online betting or gambling is the riskiest. 13% plan to borrow in order to invest or bet in 2026. Only 5% did so last year. https://www.credible.com/personal-loan/financial-risks-study
LIFESTYLE / GREEN LIVING
The U.S. State Department has been updating advice for U.S. citizens currently in Mexico several times daily since Sunday’s notice to shelter in place due to violence following the capture and subsequent death of cartel leader El Mencho. There have been 62 deaths related to that federal raid in the state of Jalisco. Puerto Vallarta was reported to be thick with smoke from fires set by cartel operatives on Sunday. People there say the fighting appeared to have stopped yesterday and the State Department says the situation has returned to normal in the states of Quintana Roo, Sinaloa and Tamaulipas. There were no incidents reported yesterday in Tijuana. Some areas affected by the unrest were already on the US State Department’s “do not travel” or “reconsider travel” lists. https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/23/travel/cartel-violence-mexico-el-mencho-travel-flights.html
Actor Robert Carradine has died. Part of a family of actors, his father was John Carradine from movies including “Dracula” and “The Grapes of Wrath”. His brothers include David Carradine from “Kill Bill” and TV’s “Kung Fu”, and actor/singer Keith Carradine from the movie “Nashville”. Robert made his movie debut in the 1972 John Wayne film, “The Cowboys”. He also starred in its TV spinoff. With more than 140 acting credits to his name, he’s best-remembered as Lewis in “Revenge of the Nerds” and dad Sam in TV’s “Lizzie McGuire” series. His brother, Keith confirmed today that Robert’s death yesterday was suicide. He’d struggled with Bipolar Disorder for nearly two decades. Robert Carradine was 71. https://www.usatoday.com/story/entertainment/celebrities/2026/02/24/robert-carradine-death-lizzie-mcguire-actor-revenge-nerds/88838510007/
On this day in music history – February 24,
- In 1963, The Rolling Stones became the house band at The Station Hotel in Surrey, England. That night they played to an audience of 66 and were paid $41. That’s about 500 in today’s dollars. Not bad … if you’re a small, local band.
- In 1965, it was the first full day of filming for The Beatles second movie, “Help!” Scenes filmed that day mostly involved riding bicycles.
- In 1968, Fleetwood Mac released their self-titled debut album. Songs were mostly written by early band members Peter Green and Jeremy Spencer. There were also covers of blues songs by Robert Johnson, Elmore James and Chester Burnett. The album was a big success in spite of not having any hit singles. It’s the only Fleetwood Mac album without Christine McVie on keyboards. She joined the group in 1970.
- In 1973, Roberta Flack had her second chart topper when “Killing Me Softly With His Song” began the first of five weeks at #1.
- On the same day, The Byrds played their final concert together in Passaic, New Jersey.
- In 1975, Led Zeppelin released the album, “Physical Graffiti”. It was decided to make it a double album to make use of songs left over from their past three album projects and accommodate several long new compositions.
- In 1976, The Eagles “Greatest Hits” became the first RIAA-certified platinum album, representing sales of one million copies.
- In 1982, winners at that year’s Grammys included John & Yoko for Album of the Year with “Double Fantasy”, Kim Carnes for Song of the Year with “Bette Davis Eyes”, Quincy Jones for Producer of the Year, and Sheena Easton as Best New Artist.
- In 1990, 50’s music star Johnny Ray died of liver failure. He’d had 20 Top 40 singles including the 1956 chart-topper “Just Walking in the Rain”. A new generation first learned his name in the 1982 hit “Come On Eileen” by Irish group, Dexy’s Midnight Runners.
- In 1992, Kurt Cobain married Courtney Love in Hawai’i
- In 2000, Carlos Santana won eight awards at that year’s Grammys for his latest album, “Supernatural”. It had been 19 years since his previous Top 10 album. Sting won two awards – Best Pop Album and Best Pop Vocalist.
- In 2004, co-founder of the Stax music label, Estelle Axton died in a Memphis hospital at the age of 85. Stax was home to Otis Redding, Rufus Thomas, Isaac Hayes, and Booker T & The MGs. Stax was second only to Motown in the production of soul hits in the 1960s.
- In 2016, Cranberries lead singer Dolores O’Riordan was assessed a fine to be donated to charity for head-butting an Irish police officer during her arrest at Shannon Airport two years earlier after being removed from a flight for an alleged air rage incident.
Born on this day …
- In 1942, Paul Jones, lead singer with Manfred Mann
- In 1944, English keyboardist Nicky Hopkins who worked with The Rolling Stones, Jeff Beck, The Beatles, The Who, and Small Faces.
- In 1947, Rupert Holmes who had the 1980 #1 hit “Escape, (The Piña Colada Song)” and Lonnie Turner, bass player with The Steve Miller Band
- In 1962, singer-songwriter Michelle Shocked
https://www.thisdayinmusic.com/
Other celebrity anniversaries today …
- Actor Barry Bostwick, also known as Brad in “The Rocky Horror Picture Show” is 81
- Actress Debra Jo Rupp, who played Kitty on TV’s “That 70s Show” is 75
- Actor, producer, director Billy Zane is 60. You may remember him as the bad guy-fiancée in the movie, “Titanic”.
- Among those who’ve passed, Abe Vigoda who played Detective Fish on TV’s “Barney Miller” was born in 1921
- Actor John Vernon from “The Outlaw Josey Wales”, “Dirty Harry” and as Dean Wormer in “National Lampoon’s Animal House” was born in 1932.
- Apple Computer founder Steve Jobs was born in 1955.
https://www.thisdayinmusic.com/
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Pala seniors’ lunch menu for tomorrow (2/25) – crispy pork stir-fry, brown rice, vegetables and dessert
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WEATHER
Pala Weather – mostly sunny with a high of 84 this afternoon and again tomorrow … 88 Thursday … 90 Friday … patchy morning low clouds and fog beginning Saturday, clearing to 87 that afternoon … 84 Sunday … 78 Monday … overnight lows, 49 tonight … about 55 tomorrow and Thursday night … 56 Friday night … 54 Saturday night … 51 Sunday night
PROGRAMMING
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FIRE PERMITS
Call the Pala Fire Department at (760) 742-1632 before starting any open fires to get the day’s Cal Fire and APCD recommendations. Fire Department permits are required for any burning on Pala tribal land.
PALA
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