Pala Today News – 3/2/26

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LOCAL AND REGIONAL NEWS

A woman changing a tire on the southbound shoulder of the 5 freeway in Oceanside near Camp Pendleton was airlifted to Scripps La Jolla hospital after being struck by a passing pickup truck.  It happened just before 5p yesterday.  The driver of the truck told CHP he struck the car, not the person.  https://patch.com/california/oceanside-camppendleton/woman-airlifted-hospital-after-crash-5-freeway-while-she-changed

A pedestrian was struck and killed on Highway 76 near Benet Road in Oceanside just before midnight last night.  The eastbound Toyota Corolla struck the unidentified pedestrian crossing 76 just after the intersection.  The victim died at the scene.  The driver remained at the scene and cooperated with police. https://patch.com/california/oceanside-camppendleton/pedestrian-killed-while-trying-cross-highway-oceanside-police

There was a rollover crash on Highway 76 near Pauma Valley Drive last night around 10p.  The single vehicle involved hit a tree, then caught fire, blocking traffic for a time.  One person was hospitalized with unknown injures. https://www.villagenews.com/story/2026/02/26/news/vehicle-overturns-and-catches-fire-in-solo-crash-on-sr-76-near-pauma-valley/81328.html

Police report a pair of stabbings in North County yesterday.  The first was just before 2a in Carlsbad on Grand Avenue downtown.  The adult male victim was hospitalized with serious injuries, but is reported in stable condition.  Carlsbad Police report multiple people were involved in an altercation.  The person suspected of the stabbing fled the scene before officers arrived.  https://www.newsbreak.com/fox-5-san-diego-1589916/4518247588845-carlsbad-police-investigate-downtown-stabbing-suspect-at-large

The second stabbing happened around 6:45p near Estrellita Drive between Victory Drive and South Santa Fe in Vista.  The victim was taken to a local hospital with unknown injuries.  Deputies are looking for 21-year old Hispanic man, about 5’5” with black hair, wearing a gray shirt and blue jeans.  They have a likely name for him, but are working to confirm his identity. https://www.newsbreak.com/fox-5-san-diego-1589916/4518506847085-deputies-search-for-suspect-in-vista-stabbing

State Sen. Minority Leader Brian Jones from San Diego and Sen Roger Niello from Fair Oaks have introduced legislation in Sacramento to increase transparency, oversight and accountability at the California Energy Commission and the California Air Resources Board.  Jones called the CEC and CARB “the single greatest driver of California’s highest-in-the-nation cost of living.”  Policies at the agencies impact fuel and energy costs.  Their boards are appointed, not elected and have no direct accountability to voters or legislators.  The proposed package includes three bills.  SB 929 requires the chair of the CEC to report annually to legislators in Sacramento.  SB 1239 requires CARB to prepare an economic impact report on proposed regulations for commissioners and the public to review before final decisions on those proposals.  SB 981 requires CARB to analyze cost-of-living impacts, including effects on gasoline, electricity, groceries, housing construction and business costs when evaluating major regulations.   (Sen. Brian Jones media release)

Pala will have high temperatures in the upper 70s all week, warming back into the 80s for the weekend.  The full forecast is coming up. (below)

 

SPORTS

In the NBA – The Lakers routed the Warriors in San Francisco 129-101 Saturday.  The Clippers roughed up the visiting Pelicans 137-117 yesterday, while the Lakers topped the last place Kings 128-104.  Yesterday’s other winners were New York, Cleveland, Chicago, Minnesota, Memphis, Atlanta, Detroit, Boston and Oklahoma City, who still lead the Western Conference by 3 games over San Antonio.  The Lakers are in 6^th place, ten games off the pace.  The Clippers are in 9^th and struggling to maintain play-in position with a 28 and 31 record.  In the East, Detroit in is first place, 5 ½ games ahead of Boston. https://www.espn.com/nba/standings

In the minors – The San Diego Clippers lost 121-100 yesterday at Santa Cruz.  Their next game is March 11 hosting Rip City.

In college basketball – On Saturday, #16 Texas Tech upset #4 Iowa State Saturday 82-73.  #9 Gonzaga fell to unranked Saint Mary’s 70-59.  #19 BYU lost again, this time to unranked West Virginia 79-71.  New Mexico beat San Diego State 81-76.  Portland topped USD 87-74.  UCSD beat Cal Poly 80-64.  Yesterday, unranked Ohio State knocked off #8 Purdue 82-74. 

In women’s NCAA – UConn remained undefeated, beating St. John’s 85-49.  #2 UCLA whupped USC 73-50.

In the NHL – The weekend began with the Ducks taking the visiting Winnipeg Jets 5-4 in overtime.  On Saturday, the Kings shut out the visiting Flames 2-0.  Yesterday’s winners were Anaheim over Calgary 3-2 in a shootout, Pittsburgh, Chicago, San Jose, St. Louis and the New York Islanders.  Six games tonight including the Kings hosting Colorado.

In the minors – The San Diego Gulls lost 6-5 in overtime Friday at Texas.  Their next game is Wednesday at San Jose.

In Major League Baseball Pre-Season – The Padres lost 9-1 to the Giants yesterday.  The Dodgers edged the Angels 4-3. 

In soccer – The San Diego Sockers buried the Tacoma Stars Friday at Pechanga Arena 11-5.  They face the Empire Strikers Thursday at Toyota Arena in Ontario.

In lacrosse – The San Diego Seals lost 14-12 Friday at Denver, then rushed home to meet the Vancouver Warriors Saturday, losing than one 9-7.  Their next game isn’t until March 14 at Saskatchewan.

In golf – At the Cognizant Classic at Palm Beach Gardens, Spain’s Nico Echavarria was the winner at 17 under-par 267. https://www.espn.com/golf/leaderboard

In racing – Yesterday at Circuit of the Americas, though Shane van Gisbergen favored to win the road course race, it was Tyler Reddick who made history by taking the checkered flag, completing a first-ever sweep of the first three races of a NASCAR season.  He started on the pole yesterday in Austin.  And 95 laps later, brought it home for the 23XI team.  https://apnews.com/article/nascar-austin-gisbergen-reddick-zilisch-5351d5b0f8ff308cfb4d1185df456c0f

Meanwhile at the Grand Prix of St. Petersburg, Alex Palou won the season’s first Indycar race.

Local High School Sports –

Bonsall – baseball at El Cajon Valley at 3p;

Great Oak – boys’ volleyball hosting Redlands at 5p

Fallbrook – boys’ soccer hosting Pacific Ridge this afternoon; softball at Sweetwater at 3:30p; baseball against San Dieguito Academy at 3:30p, varsity hosting, JV away; boys’ volleyball hosting San Dieguito Academy at 4:30p; boy’s JV lacrosse hosting Del Norte at 5:30p

Valley Center – JV softball hosting Escondido Charter at 3:30p; varsity boys’ tennis hosting Classical Academy at 3:30p

 

BUSINE$$

As of midday trading on Wall Street, stocks were mixed.  The Dow gained a tenth of a percent.  The S&P 500 was down a small fraction.  And the Nasdaq lost 3 tenths of a percent.  Comex gold was up $61.80 to $5,309.70 an ounce.  Because of the war in Iraq and the immediate suspension of most shipping in the region, West Texas Intermediate Crude oil futures shot up almost $4 to $70.95 a barrel – the highest it’s been since last June.  Oil prices were already up 17% this year due to recent White House rhetoric against Iran.

In spite of an early selloff, stock prices have mostly recovered from their initial negative reaction to war in Iran.  Gold and oil have soared with retail gasoline prices expected to rise 40 to 60 cents a gallon due to anticipated shortages of oil from the Middle East.  According to GasBuddy, the retail price of gasoline jumped about 3 cents today to $2.97 for a gallon of regular nationwide.  San Diego County remained stable at $4.60.  Riverside County ticked up about five cents to $4.54.  Retail prices eventually tend to move about 2 ½ cents for every dollar change in the price of crude oil.  Even though most Iranian oil goes to China because of US sanctions, it has a major influence over shipping in the Strait of Hormuz, where more than 20% of the world’s oil passes. Yesterday, eight of the OPEC+ nations said they would increase production by more than 200k barrels per day starting next month in order to calm the market. https://www.nbcnews.com/business/business-news/oil-prices-iran-strikes-rcna261209 https://www.gasbuddy.com/charts

Thousands of commercial flights were grounded because of the military strikes in Iran and the resulting closure of most Middle East airspace.  Airline and hotel stocks fell as a result of both that the spike in oil prices. https://www.cnbc.com/2026/03/02/iran-strikes-flights-travel-stocks.html

Market watchers are wondering if last week was the week that AI changed the world.  Anthropic announced an update to its Claude Cowork tool to allow it work within applications like Microsoft Excel and PowerPoint.  Anthropic’s CEO went head-to-head with the Pentagon over AI safety.  Anthropic said Claude will not be used for autonomous weapons or mass surveillance of US citizens.  Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said it will use the Defense Production Act to access all Anthropic technology and will use its AI model “for all lawful purposes.”  Then on Thursday, Payments company, Block said it will reduce its staff by 40% because of a pivot to AI.  The new, smaller 6k-person workforce will use AI to automate more work.  Those laid off will receive 20 weeks base pay.  In spite of the up to a half billion dollars in charges it’ll take to do that, Block stock went up 24% in after hours trading following Thursday’s announcement. https://www.cnn.com/2026/02/28/business/ai-week-anthropic-nvidia-block

Mortgage rates jumped 13 basis points today, now averaging 6.12% for the average 30-year fixed rate loan.  It was because of 10-year Treasury notes rising back above 4% because of the Iran conflict.  Mortgage rates loosely follow Treasury yields.  The rate reversal comes just as the Spring housing market was set to get underway.  https://www.cnbc.com/2026/03/02/mortgage-rates-jump-sharply-higher-after-iran-strikes-reversing-last-weeks-decline.html

 

LIFESTYLE / GREEN LIVING

Over the weekend at the movie box office, “Scream 7” opened big with $64.1m in ticket sales, more than four times the sales of the #2 movie, “GOAT” which is now in its 3^rd week of release. The audience for “Wuthering Heights” dropped by more than half as it sold just under $7m worth of tickets – good for third place.  “Twenty One Pilots: More Than We Ever Imagined” debuted in 4^th place with $4.3m on just 833 screens for the second-best per-screen average of the weekend.  Total ticket sales for the top ten films was up substantially from last weekend and third-best for this year. https://www.boxofficemojo.com/weekend/2026W09/

Instagram announced last week that it will begin notifying parents if their teenager repeatedly searches “phrases promoting suicide or self-harm.”  Both the teen and the parents have to enroll.  The announcement came about a week after the CEO of parent company Meta, Mark Zuckerberg testified in a trial contending that its social media platforms harm children. www.morningbrew.com

On this day in music history – March 2,

• 1955, Bo Diddley had his first recording session in Chicago where he laid down his signature song, “Bo Diddley”.  By June it was at the top of the R&B chart.
• In 1963, The Four Seasons became the first group to have 3 consecutive #1 hits when “Walk Like a Man” began the first of three weeks at #1.
• In 1964, The Beatles began filming their first feature film, “A Hard Day’s Night” at Marleybone train station in London.
• In 1967, Engelbert Humperdinck was at #1 with “Release Me”.
• In 1974, at the Grammys, Stevie Wonder won awards for Album of the Year – Innervisions, Best R&B Song and Best Vocal for “Superstition” and Best Pop Vocal for “You Are the Sunshine of My Life”.  Meanwhile, on the Hot 100, Terry Jacks began the first of three weeks #1 with “Seasons in the Sun”.
• In 1975, an LA cop who stopped a Lincoln Continental for running a red light was surprised to find Paul McCartney at the wheel with wife Linda as passenger.  He detected the smell of marijuana and upon searching the vehicle found 8 ounces.  Linda was arrested for the offense.
• In 1985, Wham! began the first of three weeks at #1 with “Make It Big”.
• In 1991, 21 years after its release, “All Right Now” by Free was at #2 on the British singles chart thanks to a reissue coinciding with its use in the Wrigley’s Chewing gum TV ad.
• In 1999, Dusty Springfield died at the age of 59 after a long battle with cancer.
• In 2008, Canadian guitarist, singer, songwriter Jeff Healy died of cancer.  He’d lost his eyes at the age of 8 months due to a rare cancer.  He contracted sarcoma in his legs 38 years later, which spread to his lungs, causing his death.  Healy released 12 albums and worked with dozens of other major artists.  He played the blind singer opposite Patrick Swayze in “Road House”.
• In 2009, Liverpool University launched a master’s degree on The Beatles.

Born on this day …

• In 1938, Lawrence Payton from The Four Tops.
• In 1943, Lou Reed, who released 20 solo albums after leaving the Velvet Underground in 1970.
• In 1948, guitarist, studio musician and solo artist Larry Carlton.
• In 1950, Karen Carpenter
• In 1955, Jay Osmond from the family group, The Osmonds, and Dale Bozio, lead singer from Missing Persons
• In 1956, AC/DC bass player Mark Evans, and John Cowsill from another family group, The Cowsills
• In 1962, Jon Bon Jovi
• In 1977, lead vocalist and co-founder of Coldplay, Chris Martin.

https://www.thisdayinmusic.com/search/?keyword=&date=2&month=3

Other celebrity anniversaries today …

• Actress Gates McFadden, best known as Dr. Beverly Crusher on Star Trek:  The Next Generation is 77
• Comedienne Laraine Newman from the original cast of SNL is 74
• Actress and comedienne Rebel Wilson is 46
• Among those who’ve passed, Theodore Geisel, better known as Dr. Seuss was born on this day in 1904
• Actor singer, bandleader, director and producer Desi Arnaz was born this day in 1917

http://www.davesfunstuff.com/a-mb/2080-date0302.htm

 

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WEATHER

Pala Weather – mostly sunny with a high of 78 this afternoon … 79 tomorrow … 78 Wednesday … 77 Thursday … 78 Friday … 82 Saturday … 85 Sunday … overnight lows, 43 tonight … 47 tomorrow night … 45 Wednesday through Friday night … 48 Saturday night

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