Pala Today News – 3/18/26
Written by John Fox on March 18, 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 Temecula Valley High School student was hospitalized in critical condition as the result of a crash just after school let out yesterday. It happened just off campus near Margarita and Rancho Vista Roads – vehicle vs. pedestrian. First responders found the juvenile unresponsive in the roadway and called in a helicopter for air lift to the hospital. The driver remained at the scene and cooperated with the investigation. https://www.newsbreak.com/cbs-la-500220/4545503849100-temecula-student-hospitalized-in-critical-condition-after-crash-outside-of-high-school
Several people were injured in a suspected DUI crash in Carlsbad late last evening. It was reported around 11:30p on Carlsbad Avenue between Tamarack and Cannon Road. None of the injuries were major. One person was arrested. www.newsbreak.com
A fire in the trailer of a big rig closed the two right lanes of southbound I-15 at Ontario Ave in Corona this morning. The fire happened around 7:15a with at least one lane still closed for cleanup as of 11a. https://patch.com/california/lakeelsinore-wildomar/sig-alert-i-15-south-91-freeway-semi-truck-fire-leads-lengthy
Galway Downs in Temecula Wine Country will host the 2026 American Kennel Club National Agility Championship this weekend. Spectators are welcome. There’s a $5 entrance fee. Competition is 8a to 5p Friday and Saturday. 9a-4p Sunday. All breeds can compete in navigating jumps, tunnels, weave poles and contact obstacles while racing against the clock. https://patch.com/california/temecula/temeculas-galway-downs-hosting-2026-akc-national-agility-championship
New high temperature records were set in at least 30 Southern California communities yesterday. Palomar Mountain was 79, beating a 54-year old record by four degrees. Records were broken in El Cajon at 93 degrees, Alpine at 90 and Ramona at 89. Pala was 99. Ocotillo Wells was the hottest place in the county at 102. Downtown Los Angeles set a new record at 98. Long Beach was 99. https://www.nbcsandiego.com/news/local/temperature-records-san-diego-heat-wave/3996702/ https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/dozens-temperature-records-shattered-across-100000793.html?fr=sycsrp_catchall
More record-setting temperatures are expected over the next three days. Today and Friday are expected to be the hottest days. The full forecast is coming up. (below)
SPORTS
In the NBA – Last night’s winners were Charlotte, Oklahoma City, Detroit, New York, Cleveland, Minnesota, Denver and San Antonio. Nine games tonight including the Clippers at New Orleans and the Lakers at Houston.
In the minors – The San Diego Clippers next game is Thursday hosting the Valley Suns for the first of two games in Oceanside.
In college basketball March Madness – First Four games were played last night for the West and Midwest Regions. Texas beat NC State 68-66 and Howard over UMBC 86-83. The other two regions play tonight in Dayton – Prarie View A&M vs. Lehigh followed by Miami Ohio vs. SMU. First Round play begins tomorrow.
In women’s NCAA – First Four games begin tonight.
In the NHL – Last night’s winners were the New York Islanders, Columbus, Edmonton, Vancouver, Buffalo, Tampa Bay, Nashville in a shootout with Winnipeg, and Montreal and Minnesota, both in overtime.
In the minors – The San Diego Gulls won 6-5 in a shootout last night in Colorado. Same two teams tonight at 6p.
In Major League Baseball Pre-Season – The Padres topped Seattle 9-6. Matt Waldron got the win. Dodgers over Kansas City 10-4 and the Angels lost to the Cubs 8-6.
At the World Baseball Classic, Venezuela won its first-ever championship by knocking off the favorite, the United States 3-2. Both teams entered yesterday’s game with identical 5 and 1 records in the tournament. Venezuela got out ahead with runs in the 3rd and 5th innings. The US tied it with a 432-foot homer by Bryce Harper in the bottom of the 8th. Venezuela designated hitter, Eugenio Suarez drove in the eventual winning run in the 9th. https://www.espn.com/mlb/story/_/id/48194983/wbc-2026-final-championship-game-usa-venezuela-live-updates-analysis-takeaways
In the NFL – The NFL Players Association has elected former union chief strategy officer and retired Cleveland Browns offensive lineman JC Tretter as their next executive director. The union has been looking for a permanent leader since Lloyd Howell Jr. resigned in July following reports he charged a pair of strip club visits to the union. Tretter steps in as the league considers adding an 18th game and an international game for each team and begins negotiating its next collective bargaining agreement. The current one expires in 2030. https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/48234344/nflpa-elects-former-ol-jc-tretter-next-executive-director
In soccer – The San Diego Sockers’ next game is Sunday hosting St. Louis.
In lacrosse – The San Diego Seals’ next game is this Saturday hosting Buffalo.
Local High School Sports –
Bonsall – softball at Fallbrook at 4p
Great Oak – girls’ beach volleyball at Chaparral at 2p; track & field hosting Vista Murrieta at 3:15p; softball at Eleanor Roosevelt at 3:30p; swimming & diving at Vista Murrieta at 4p
Fallbrook – JV softball at Orange Glen at 4p; baseball hosting Bishop at 4p; girls’ lacrosse hosting Sage Creek at 7p
Valley Center – baseball against Rancho Buena Vista at 4p, varsity hosting, JV away; boys’ lacrosse at Westview at 7p
BUSINE$$
As of midday trading on Wall Street, stocks gave back most of yesterday’s gains. The Dow was down 8 tenths of a percent. The S&P 500 was off a half percent. And the Nasdaq fell 6 tenths. Gold plunged $128, or 2 ½% on the Comex to $4,879.60 an ounce. West Texas Intermediate Crude oil futures were up $1.49 to $97.70 a barrel.
JPMorgan Chase has announced a new initiative called the Athlete Council to help professional athletes manage money from college through retirement. Not only do athletes make a lot of money compared to the average wage earner, but about one in six declares bankruptcy within a dozen years of retiring. The council will be led by Dwayne Wade and include Tom Brady, Sue Bid, Alex Morgan and others. The sports stars will meet with bank executives to help craft guidelines for athletes who don’t receive personal finance education in school and whose relatively short careers leave a narrow earning window that requires unique planning. Chase will also launch a content hub with checklists for those navigating the name, image and likeness system. https://www.cnbc.com/2026/03/18/jpmorgan-athlete-wealth-management-tom-brady-dwyane-wade.html
Macy’s, one of the few remaining traditional department stores beat fourth-quarter expectations, but warned of a rough year ahead. The company will refresh many of its stores while closing others. Macy’s stock is down about 30% so far this year after more than doubling last year. https://www.cnbc.com/2026/03/18/macys-m-q4-2025-earnings-.html
Beginning next year, Nissan will export Murano SUVs built in Smyrna, Tennessee to Japan. It’ll be the first American-made Nissan sold in Japan since the 1990s. Both Honda and Toyota had announced plans to export to Japan earlier this month. Honda will send U.S.-built Acura Integra Type S and Honda Passport TrailSport Elite models to Japan in the second half of this year. 95% of the Japanese car market is made up of locally-produced vehicles. Recent trade deals will allow US-made vehicles to be sold in Japan without meeting Japanese safety standards if they already meet US standards. That means the US-made exports will be left-hand drive, the same as vehicles sold here – not right-hand drive as is normally required of Japanese market vehicles. They’re also not expected to be sold in large numbers there. https://www.cnbc.com/2026/03/17/nissan-toyota-honda-export-japan.html
Kraft Heinz yesterday announced a new version of its iconic blue box mac & cheese called PowerMac. The longtime product has lost about 6% of its market share since 2022, most of it to health-conscious startups and cheaper private label brands. PowerMac will be pumped up with double the original version’s amount of protein. www.morningbrew.com
LIFESTYLE / GREEN LIVING
State Assemblymember James Ramos from the San Manuel reservation, other legislators, Native American and labor leaders held a rally at the Native American Monument in Sacramento’s Capitol Park this morning to urge passage of AB 1841 which was being heard in committee today. The bill would make California Native American Day a paid holiday for all state employees. Currently, it is only a paid holiday for state judicial employees. That was accomplished by a Ramos-sponsored bill introduced in 2021. (Asm. Ramos media release)
The state of Arizona has filed criminal charges against the prediction market platform, Kalshi, saying it’s actually an illegal gambling operation and taking bets on Arizona elections, both of which violate Arizona law. A Kalshi spokesperson says the company is federally regulated by the US Commodity Futures Trading Commission. The prediction market in general is becoming a hotbed of controversy. An Israeli Defense Forces reservist was recently indicted for using classified information to place bets with Polymarket. And an Israeli reporter revealed that people tried to intimidate him into changing a story about a recent Iranian missile strike so they could win a bet on Polymarket. The reporter notified police and Polymarket, who banned the accounts of those involved. Both Polymarket and Kalshi report efforts to crack down on insider trading. www.morningbrew.com
On this day in music history – March 18,
- 1967, UK’s version of Billboard and Cashbox, the New Musical Express announced that former Spencer Davis group member Steve Winwood was planning to form a new group with Jim Capaldi, Chris Wood and Dave Mason to be named “Traffic”.
- On the same day, The Beatles scored their 13th #1 single with “Penny Lane” whose B-side was “Strawberry Fields Forever”. Penny Lane was the name of a street near John Lennon’s childhood home in Liverpool. He and Paul McCartney would meet at the Penny Lane junction in Mossley Hill to catch the bus into the center of Liverpool. It was the first of several stream-of-consciousness songs by the song writing team.
- In 1972, Neil Young began the first of three weeks at #1 with “Heart of Gold” from his album, “Harvest”. James Taylor and Linda Ronstadt sang backup on the song.
- On the same day, Paul Simon’s solo debut album was at #1, featuring the hits “Mother and Child Reunion” and “Me and Julio Down By the School Yard”.
- In 1977, The Clash released their debut single, “White Riot”, a typical three cord fast-tempo punk song.
- In 1978, The Bee Gees were responsible for the top three songs on the Billboard chart – “Night Fever” by the Bee Gees at #1, “(Love Is) Thicker Than Water” by solo brother Andy Gibb at #2, and “Emotion” by Samantha Sang at #3. All were written and produced by the Bee Gees.
- In 1989, a California radio station destroyed all of its Cat Stevens records by running over them with a steamroller in protest of the singer/songwriter’s support of Iran’s anti-American leader Ayatollah Khomeni.
- In 2001, singer/songwriter John Phillips of The Mamas and The Papas died of heart failure at age 65. He was one of the organizers of The 1967 Monterey Pop Festival, the prototype for multi-day music festivals worldwide.
- In 2002, The Ramones were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame by Eddie Vedder from Pearl Jam.
- In 2008, a judge found Heather Mills’ evidence in her divorce case against Paul McCartney to be “inconsistent, inaccurate and less than candid.” Out of Sir Paul’s estimated $600m in assets, Mills had sought more than $225m. She was offered $23m. The courts awarded her about $36m.
- In 2017, Chuck Berry died at the age of 90. In the mid-1950s, he as much as anyone refined and developed rhythm and blues into the major elements that became rock and roll.
Born on this day …
- In 1938, country singer Charlie Pride who had 39 #1 hits on the country chart. In 1970 he became the best-selling performer for RCA Records since Elvis Presley. He was the first black performer inducted into the Grand Ole Opry.
- In 1941, singer songwriter Wilson Pickett
- In 1945, Scottish songwriter, musician and producer Eric Woolfson. Co-founder of The Alan Parsons Project, he also wrote songs for Marianne Faithfull, The Tremeloes, Marmalade, and Peter Noone.
- In 1947, Barry J. Wilson, drummer for Procol Harum
- In 1950, John Hartman, original drummer for The Doobie Brothers
- In 1959, singer, songwriter, dancer and actress Irene Cara, best known as Coco in “Fame”.
- In 1963, actress singer and fashion designer Vanessa Williams who became the first African-American Miss America in 1983.
- In 1966, lead guitarist and co-founder of Alice in Chains, Jerry Cantrell
- In 1970, Dana Elaine Owens, better known as Queen Latifah
- In 1979, Adam Levine from Maroon 5
https://www.thisdayinmusic.com/search/?keyword=&date=18&month=3
Other celebrity anniversaries today …
- Comedian, actor, screenwriter and director Carl Gottlieb is 88. He co-wrote the screenplays for “Jaws” and “The Jerk”.
- Character actor Brad Dourif is 76
- Actor director Geoffrey Owens is 65 – he played Elvin on TV’s “The Cosby Show”.
- Among those who’ve passed, actor Edward Everett Horton was born on this day in 1886
- Actor Peter Graves was born in 1926
http://www.davesfunstuff.com/a-mb/2080-date0318.htm
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WEATHER
Pala Weather – The National Weather Service Heat Advisory continues through Friday … sunny with a high of 102 today … 101 tomorrow … 104 Friday … 97 Saturday … 92 Sunday … 91 Monday … 90 Tuesday … overnight lows, about 61 tonight and tomorrow night … 57 Friday night … about 54 Saturday through Monday night
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