Pala Today News – 5/18/26

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LOCAL AND REGIONAL NEWS

One person is dead following “an incomplete 9-1-1 call” in Fallbrook last night.  Deputies responded to the 300 block of Woodcrest last just after 8p where they found two people “with visible traumatic injuries”.  Both were transported a hospital where one died.  The other is expected to recover.  Investigators have released few details and are asking for anyone with information to call them at 858 285 6330 or call Crime Stoppers anonymously at 888 580 8477. https://www.10news.com/news/local-news/homicide-detectives-investigate-persons-death-in-fallbrook-051826

Protestors gathered at Brotherton Road and Centre City Parkway in Escondido Saturday urging motorists to boycott Talk of the Town Car Wash.  They claimed the business donated to Mayor Dane White’s reelection campaign, which is tied to the larger issue of the city in January renewing its $67k contract with the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, allowing ICE to use the city’s firing range.  According to the city, only Homeland Security Investigations, a division within ICE has been using the range – not ICE’s Enforcement and Removal division.  https://www.10news.com/news/local-news/north-county-news/demonstrators-gather-outside-local-car-wash-to-protest-escondidos-contract-with-dhs

With a number of small fires already making headlines this Spring, and a human-caused 10k acre fire currently burning on Santa Rosa Island off the coast of Santa Barbara, the City of Oceanside has tightened fireworks regulations for this summer.  The city council has unanimously approved icreasing fines and using drone enforcement to crack down on illegal fireworks.  Although even sparklers are illegal, it’s the large exploding fireworks that cause the most trouble with hundreds of complaints coming in every summer holiday.  The revised city ordinance has fines beginning at $1k and with penalties for property owners depending on where the fireworks were set off.  Enforcement will not be limited just to holidays.  https://www.10news.com/oceanside-to-target-illegal-fireworks-with-fines-drones

An accident before 5a yesterday on northbound I-15 near Rainbow Valley Boulevard cleared within 15 minutes.  No injuries reported. https://www.villagenews.com/story/2026/05/14/news/crash-on-northbound-i-15-near-rainbow-valley-boulevard-cleared-in-15-minutes/81910.html

The Valley Roadrunner reported a three-vehicle accident closing the intersection of Valley Center and Lilac Roads about three hours ago.  No further details. 

A Temecula Wine Trolley was involved in a crash with a Tesla and a Rivian Saturday.  The incident occurred around 3:45p at Rancho California Road and Calle Contento.  The driver of the trolley and a passenger in the Tesla were transported by ambulance to be evaluated for pain.  The trolley had 15 people on board. https://patch.com/california/temecula/wine-trolley-collides-tesla-crash-injured-2-near-temecula-police

Organizers say as many as 20k people attended Escondido’s annual Street festival on Grand Avenue Saturday.  That’s 4k more than last year and the best attendance since before the pandemic.  The local event with about 400 vendors has been a city tradition for 30 years.  https://www.10news.com/news/local-news/homicide-detectives-investigate-persons-death-in-fallbrook-051826

A reminder that today is the last day to register to vote in the June 2 election. https://patch.com/california/temecula/monday-last-day-register-vote-june-elections-where-drop-your-ballot-riverside

Pala weather will be very consistent for the next week with highs in the low 80s and overnight lows in the low 50s.  The full forecast is coming up. (below)

 

SPORTS

In the NBA playoffs – San Antonio won its semifinal series over Minnesota in Game Six Friday.  Final score 139-109.  Cleveland won Game 7 of its semifinal series yesterday, routing the Pistons 125-94 in Detroit.  The Western Finals between San Antonio and the Thunder begin tonight in Oklahoma City at 5:30p on NBC.  The Eastern finals between the Guardians and Knicks begin tomorrow in New York at 5p on ESPN.

For the second consecutive year, OKC’s Shai Gilgeous-Alexander was named the NBA’s Most Valuable Player.  He is the 14^th NBA player to win back-to-back MVP titles.   https://www.espn.com/nba/story/_/id/48795765/sources-thunder-shai-gilgeous-alexander-repeats-nba-mvp

New Orleans has hired former Orlando coach Jamahl Mosley as their new head coach.  Mosley had been fired May 4 after leading the Magic to three consecutive postseasons in spite of a lot of injuries.  He was 189-221 in his five seasons with Orlando.  https://www.espn.com/nba/story/_/id/48806473/sources-pelicans-hiring-jamahl-mosley-head-coach

In the NHL playoffs – Buffalo forced tonight’s deciding Game 7 of the Eastern 2^nd Round with an 8-3 rout of the Canadiens in Montreal Saturday.  Tonight’s game will be at 4:30p on ESPN.  The Western Finals begin Wednesday with Vegas at Colorado. 

In Major League Baseball – The Padres swept the visiting Mariners 2-0, 7-4 and 8-3.  Meanwhile, 100 miles to the north, the Dodgers swept the Angels with a 6-0 shutout and two routs – 15-2 and 10-1. That keeps the Dodgers a half-game ahead of the Padres and on top of the NL West.  Tonight, the Padres host the Dodgers.  Starting Pitchers are Yoshinobu Yamamoto and Michael King.  The Angels host the Athletics.

In the minors – The Lake Elsinore Storm lost 16-7 to the visiting Rancho Cucamonga Quakes yesterday.  The Storm took four out of six in the series.  They begin a six-game series at Visalia tomorrow night. https://www.milb.com/lake-elsinore/schedule/2026-04?affiliateId=mobile-hp-uhg

In the NFL – As expected, 42-year old quarterback Aaron Rodgers has signed a one-year deal with the Steelers for $25m.  He had said when he signed his last one-year deal that 2025 would probably be his last season.   https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/48791130/aaron-rodgers-sign-1-year-deal-steelers

Spring meetings kick off tomorrow in Orlando.  Team owners are expected to vote tomorrow to have Nashville host the Super Bowl in 2030.  The Titans’ new stadium is expected to open next year.  Super Bowl 61 is set for SoFi Stadium in Inglewood this coming February.  It’ll be at Mercedes-Benz Stadium in Atlanta in 2028.  https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/48804104/sources-nfl-owners-vote-nashville-super-bowl-lxiv-host

In Major League Soccer – San Diego FC tied FC Cincinnati at 3 apiece Saturday at Snapdragon Stadium.  The Galaxy beat the Sounders in Seattle 2-0.  And LAFC lost 3-2 at Nashville SC yesterday.

In golf – At the PGA Championship at Newton Square, PA, Aaron Rai was the winner at 9 under par 271 – three strokes ahead of John Rahm and Alex Smalley. https://www.espn.com/golf/leaderboard

In racing – At Dover Motor Speedway yesterday, Denny Hamlin began in the pole position, led for more than half the 200 laps and took the checkered flag at the end.  It was his second NASCAR Cup win this season. https://www.espn.com/racing/results

Local High School Sports –

Bonsall – no scheduled games

Great Oak – no scheduled games

Fallbrook – no scheduled games

Valley Center – CIF golf at Steele Canyon and Torrey Pines all day

 

BUSINE$$

As of midday trading on Wall Street, stocks were mixed.  The Dow Jones Industrial Average gained a tenth of a percent.  The S&P 500 was down a quarter percent.  And the Nasdaq declined 2/3 of a percent.  Gold fell $6.70 on the Comex to $4,555.20 an ounce.  The benchmark West Texas Intermediate Crude oil futures were up $1.37 to $106.79 a barrel.

The Justice Department today announced a $1.7b “Anti-Weaponization Fund” to compensate the President’s Republican allies who believe they were mistreated by the Biden administration Justice Department.  The fund is part of a deal to resolve President Trump’s lawsuit against the IRS over leaking his tax returns.  That suit was officially dropped today.  The highly unorthodox resolution is claimed by the administration to be a fair and legal redress for wrongs done to Trump’s allies before he returned to office.  Democrats and government watchdogs say the unprecedented move is corrupt, unjustly enriches those close to the President using taxpayer money, and opens the door to meritless claims of political persecution. https://apnews.com/article/trump-lawsuit-irs-leak-3729de38770b558be01712a143437bf8

Vancouver, BC-based athleticwear company Lululemon is going public with its battle against a takeover by activist founder Chip Wilson.  It released a letter to shareholders today saying Wilson has “outdated perspectives” and “troubling conflicts of interest” that will wreck the company’s turnaround plans.  Wilson initiated a proxy battle last year, leading to settlement talks that have now failed.  Wilson left the company’s board a decade ago after blaming customers for a recall of its trademark black pants and has been attacking the company for years.  He recently put forward three opposing board nominees to regain influence within the company.  The board election is coming up in June.  Wilson is Lululemon’s largest individual shareholder at just under 9% of the company.  The company announced last month that Heidi O’Neill will be the new CEO.  She comes from 30 years at Nike, where she is being blamed by some investors for Nike’s current challenges.  https://www.cnbc.com/2026/05/18/lululemon-proxy-war-with-chip-wilson-goes-public-sets-annual-meeting.html

The National Association of Homebuilders reports that in spite of high mortgage rates, rising gas prices and general economic uncertainty as the Iran war continues, that builders are feeling slightly better about their business.  Homebuilder sentiment rose 3 points last month after plunging in April.  Economists had expected it to remain the same.  The index was 34 one year ago when rates were hovering around 7%.  It’s 37 now with rates this week at 6.65% for the average 30-year fixed rate mortgage.  Sentiment is considered negative any time the index is below 50.  Fewer builders were cutting prices this month.  The use of sales incentives was up very slightly.  https://www.cnbc.com/2026/05/18/may-homebuilder-sentiment-improves.html

 

LIFESTYLE / GREEN LIVING

Over the weekend at the movie box office, “Michael” moved back into the #1 slot after four weeks of release.  It sold $26.1m worth of tickets over the weekend.  “The Devil Wears Prada 2” dropped 56% to second place with $18m in sales.  “Obsession” opened in 3^rd place with $16.1m on 1k fewer screens than the others, putting its per-screen average squarely between Michael and Prada.  “In the Grey” debuted in 9^th place with $3.1m on 2k screens.  “Is God Is” opened in 10^th with $3m on 1,500 screens.  Total attendance for the weekend was down significantly from the past two weekends and about average for the year so far. https://www.boxofficemojo.com/weekend/2026W20/

Walmart and Amazon are competing to speed up deliveries of online orders to rural areas of the country.  Bank analysts say that underserved market could be worth up to a trillion dollars in annual sales.  The same technology that enables people to do office work from anywhere is making it easier for the nation’s two biggest retailers to get merchandise to them more efficiently.  Last year, Amazon invested $4b to bring same-day delivery to 4k smaller towns and rural communities.  CEO Andy Jassy says the number of customers receiving same-day deliveries doubled last year.  The Big Two aren’t the only retailers looking to improve rural delivery service.  Dollar General now offers same-day delivery out of 17k of its 20k stores with 80% of those orders arriving in an hour or less.  Tractor Supply is nearly doubling its number of delivery hubs to 375, covering more than half of its stores.  Meanwhile, FedEx, UPS and the Postal Service are scaling back or slowing down deliveries to some rural areas to cut costs and concentrate on more profitable business.  https://apnews.com/article/rural-areas-fast-delivery-walmart-amazon-9394ec7e7abcccb892f71e57f47541dc

 

On this day in music history – May 18,

• 1964, before the Rolling Stones were even known in this country, a riot broke out when they toured Scotland when over 4k fans with forged tickets gate-crashed a Stones show in Hamilton, Scotland.
• In 1966, The Castiles with lead singer Bruce Springsteen recorded their first singles at a studio in Brick Town, New Jersey.  Both were written by Bruce.
• In 1967, The Beatles were chosen to represent the UK in the first-ever live worldwide satellite broadcast.  The group agreed to be shown in studio recording a song written for the occasion on June 25.  John Lennon wrote “All You Need is Love” to sum up the 1967 “Summer of Love” and group feelings.  Because many of the countries in the hookup didn’t speak English, the boys had been asked to “keep it simple”.
• On the same day, Pink Floyd began recording their single, “See Emily Play” in Chelsea.  Guitarist David Gilmour, not yet a member of the group, hung out for the sessions.
• In 1968, the first Miami Pop event was held with 100k people at the concert, promoted by Richard O’Barry and Michael Lang.  Lang went on to organize Woodstock.  Bands at Miami Pop included Steppenwolf, The Jimi Hendrix Experience, The Mothers of Invention, Blue Cheer, Chuck Berry, Blues Image, Pacific Gas & Electric, Three Dog Night, and The Crazy World of Arthur Brown.
• In 1974, Ray Stevens began the first of three weeks at #1 with “The Streak”, capitalizing on the then-popular craze of streaking, or naked running.
• In 1985, Simple Minds were at #1 with “Don’t You Forget About Me”.  It was featured in the teen film “The Breakfast Club”.
• In 1993, Janet Jackson released the album “Janet.”  It’s first week sales of 350k units set a record for a female artist at the time.  Janet is one of only seven albums to yield six Top Ten hits.
• In 2000, Madonna’s boyfriend Guy Ritchie was arrested for attacking a fan outside the superstar’s London home.
• In 2004, Clint Warwick, original bass player for The Moody Blues died from liver disease at age 63.  He’d left the band right after their first hit single, “Go Now” in 1966.
• In 2008, Ting Tings had a #1 hit with “That’s Not My Name” from their debut album, “We Started Nothing”.
• In 2011, John Lennon’s handwritten lyrics for the 1967 song “Lucy in the Sky With Diamonds” sold for more than $237k.  It also included the opening words for “She’s Leaving Home”.  Both songs were part of the 1967, “Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band” album.
• In 2017, singer songwriter Chris Cornell died suddenly after performing a show with Soundgarden.  He was considered one of the architects of the 1990’s grunge movement.
• In 2019, the sweater worn by Kurt Cobain during the singer’s last photo shoot with Nirvana sold at auction for $75k.

Born on this day …

• In 1911, blues singer songwriter Big Joe Turner who wrote “Sweet Sixteen” and was first to record “Shake, Rattle and Roll”
• In 1912, Singer songwriter and TV personality Perry Como.  He has the distinction of having three stars on the Hollywood Walk of Fame – one each for radio, television, and music.
• In 1942, Albert Hammond, the singer, songwriter from Gibraltar who co-founded the group Family Dogg and had a solo hit in 1972 with “It Never Rains in Southern California”.
• In 1946, George Alexander from The Flamin’ Groovies – one of the forerunners of punk rock.
• In 1949, Rick Wakeman, keyboardist and songwriter who worked with David Bowie on “Space Oddity”, also with T. Rex, Elton John and Cat Stevens.  He was a member of Strawbs, then Yes, and had a solo #1 album in 1974 with “Journey to the Centre of the Earth”.
• Also in 1949, William Wallace from The Guess Who
• In 1950, Mark Mothersbaugh from Devo
• In 1952, country singer songwriter George Strait
• In 1953, Butch Tavares from the R&B, funk and soul group Tavares
• In 1956, Jim Moginie, guitarist from Australian band Midnight Oil.

https://www.thisdayinmusic.com/born-on-this-day/

 

Other celebrity anniversaries today …

• Actress and comedienne Tina Fey is 56
• Among those who’ve passed – Actor Pernell Roberts, best remembered as Adam Cartwright on TV’s Bonanza was born in 1928.
• Broadway and movie musical star Robert Morse was born in 1931.
• So was MAD Magazine cartoonist Don Martin.
• Actor, director and TV executive Dwayne Hickman, who played Dobie Gillis on TV was born in 1934.

http://www.davesfunstuff.com/a-mb/2080-date0518.htm

 

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WEATHER

Pala Weather – mostly sunny with a high of 80 and winds gusting up to 20 miles an hour this afternoon … 83 with continued gusty winds tomorrow … patchy morning low clouds and fog clearing to sunny and 81 Wednesday … 82 Thursday … 83 Friday and Saturday … 82 Sunday … overnight lows, 48 tonight … about 51 the rest of the week

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FIRE PERMITS

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PALA

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