Pala Today News – 9/5/25

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LOCAL AND REGIONAL NEWS

A man walked into the path of a Lexus SUV driven by a 23-year old Fontana woman on Highway 74 in the unincorporated community of Good Hope Wednesday just before midnight.  The victim was struck by the right front of the vehicle and taken to a Riverside hospital where he was pronounced dead.  No other information was released by CHP. https://patch.com/california/temecula/man-struck-killed-suv-highway-near-temecula

A two-vehicle crash blocked traffic on East Mission Road in Fallbrook this morning during the morning commute. The collision was reported at 8:16a near Avo Drive. A gray SUV and a white Chevrolet Malibu were involved.  Airbags deployed in at least one of the vehicles.  Both drivers were reported to be alert at the scene.  One person reported an injury but declined medical transport.  The crash left the vehicles blocking the westbound lane, which took about a half hour to clear. https://www.villagenews.com/story/2025/09/04/news/span-classbrnwsbreaking-news-spanmulti-vehicle-collision-slows-traffic-on-e-mission-rd/79737.html

The San Diego County Sheriff’s office announced that there will be a DUI/driver’s license checkpoint at an undisclosed location within the city of Vista tomorrow evening from 8p until to 2a Sunday.  https://patch.com/california/oceanside-camppendleton/dui-drivers-license-checkpoint-slated-weekend-north-county

Deputies from the Lake Elsinore station’s Special Enforcement Team raided a suspected illegal marijuana grow in Lakeland Village yesterday.  About 815 plants in various stages of growth were found during the raid in the 33000 block of Westlong Street.  Crews from Southern California Edison responded to the residence to disconnect illegal power that was running the operation.  The location was vacant at the time.  There are no suspects currently in custody. https://patch.com/california/temecula/illegal-marijuana-grow-found-near-lake-elsinore-police

The U.S. Department of Defense is considering making parts of Camp Pendleton available for commercial lease and development.  During his visit to the base last week, Navy Secretary John Phelan had “initial conversations” about the plan.  According to a spokesperson for Secretary Phelan, “These opportunities are being evaluated to maximize value and taxpayer dollars while maintaining mission readiness and security”, https://www.kpbs.org/news/national/2025/09/04/camp-pendleton-for-lease-pentagon-looks-to-real-estate-to-fund-weapons

There were some thunderstorms in the local mountains and further east yesterday.  Warner Springs had 2 tenths of an inch of rain.  Ranchita had 3 tenths.  Julian had well over a half inch.  Parts of Borrego Springs had up to three hundredths.   https://www.weather.gov/source/sgx/hydro/LAXRRMSAN

High temperatures in Pala will be around 90 this weekend, falling to the low 80s by Tuesday.  The full forecast is coming up. (below)

 

Mass at Pala Mission Church is broadcast live on Rez Radio 91.3 and streamed live on the Rez Radio App every Sunday at 8a. 

 

SPORTS

In Major League Baseball – The Padres had yesterday off.  The Pirates completed their sweep of the visiting Dodgers 5-3 yesterday.  The Royals edged the visiting Angels 4-3.  Weekend series begin today with the Padres at Colorado, the Dodgers at Baltimore, San Francisco at St. Louis, Arizona hosting Boston, and the Angels hosting the A’s.

In the NFL – Last night in Philadelphia, the regular season began with the defending champion Eagles holding on through a scoreless fourth quarter to win over the visiting Cowboys 24-20.  Dallas committed the only turnover.  Philly held the ball ten minutes longer.  Otherwise, the stats were pretty even.  The Chargers host Kansas City tonight.  That’ll be streamed on YouTube.  The Rams host Houston Sunday on CBS.

In college football – Week 2 is underway with ranked teams playing on Saturday beginning with #2 Penn State hosting Florida International at 9a.  #6 Oregon takes on Oklahoma State at 12:30p on CBS.  UCLA is at UNLV at 5p.  San Diego State is at Washington State tomorrow at 7:15p on the CW network.

On Wednesday, the West Coast Conference and UCSD announced the Division I school will join the WCC which already includes USD and other small, private faith-based institutions.  With well over 33k students, UCSD is by far the largest school in the WCC.  USD has just under 6k students. The WCC is reportedly also trying to get UC Santa Barbara interested to replace Gonzaga, which is joining the new Pac-12 along with San Diego State and four other Mountain West defectors next year. https://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/2025/09/03/uc-san-diego-to-leave-big-west-for-west-coast-conference/

In college basketball – San Diego State has announced the Aztecs will play an exhibition game against UCLA at Viejas Arena on October 17.  The last time the two teams played a game against each other was in 2020 during the pandemic when no fans were allowed to attend.  Season ticket holders will likely get first shot at seats.  The game won’t count in the standings or towards NCAA Tournament consideration. https://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/2025/09/02/ucla-to-visit-san-diego-states-viejas-arena-next-month-for-exhibition-basketball-game/

In the WNBA – Last night’s winners were Phoenix, Golden State and Las Vegas.  Three games tonight including the LA Sparks at Atlanta. 

In hockey – The NHL preseason begins Saturday, September 20. 

In Major League Soccer – The Galaxy play the Dynamo in Houston tomorrow.  First-place San Diego FC has the weekend off.

In tennis – at the US Open, the men’s singles semifinals are today.  The women’s championship will be tomorrow at 1p on ESPN between top-seeded Aryna Sabalenka and 8^th seed, Amanda Anisimova.  Men’s singles conclude Sunday at 11a on ABC.

In local high school sports: 

Bonsall – no scheduled games today

Great Oak – varsity football hosting San Pedro at 7p

Fallbrook – boys’ varsity water polo at the Mt. Miguel invitational at 4:15p today and 7a tomorrow;

Valley Center – cross country at the South Bay Invitational at 2:40p; varsity girls’ tennis against Santa Fe Christian at San Dieguito Academy at 3:30p; boys’ water polo at the Mt. Miguel Invitational at 4:30p today and 7a tomorrow; football hosting Fallbrook at 4:30p

 

BUSINE$$

As of midday trading on Wall Street, stocks fell on bad jobs news from the Labor Department.  The Dow was off by two thirds of a percent.  The S&P 500 dropped over a half percent.  And the Nasdaq was down a quarter percent.  Gold shot up $47.20 on the Comex to $3,653.90 an ounce.  The benchmark West Texas Intermediate Crude oil futures fell $1.74 to $61.74 a barrel.

The jobs market showed weakness in today’s Labor Department numbers with 22k jobs added in August.  Revised numbers for June show the economy actually lost jobs that month.  With very little labor growth since April, unemployment inched up to 4.3% – the highest it’s been since coming off the pandemic spike in 2021.  For the first time in more than four years, there are more people looking for work than there are job openings.  Today’s weak jobs report almost guarantees a cut by the Fed in the prime lending rate this month.   https://www.npr.org/2025/09/05/nx-s1-5529937/economy-jobs-trump-bls

Mortgage rates just had their biggest one-day drop in years, with the average rate on a 30-year fixed rate dropping 16 basis points today to 6.29%.  That’s the lowest it’s been since last October.  The rate had peaked at 7.08% in May.  Some lenders are doing business in the high 5% range.  On a median-priced home with 20% down, the difference between today’s rate and 7% is about $170 a month.  Here in Southern California, where home prices are much higher, it’s more like several hundred a month.  Major homebuilder stocks reacted favorably.  Most gained several percent today.  www.cnn.com

In the penalty phase of Google’s anti-trust case involving the Chrome browser, US District Judge Amit Mehta stopped short of ordering Google to sell off Chrome.  He did order an end to exclusive deals making Google the default search engine on phones and other devices.  Google will also have to share some of its search data with third parties and establish a technology oversight committee to monitor compliance with the judge’s order for the next six years. https://www.npr.org/2025/09/02/nx-s1-5478625/google-chrome-doj-antitrust-ruling

But wait, there’s more!  Google was hit with a 2.95b Euro anti-trust fine by the European Commission today for anti-competitive practices in its lucrative Adtech business.  This is the fourth penalty issued in a decade-long fight with EU anti-trust regulators and comes at a time when President Trump has threatened to retaliate against the European Union for any push against American big tech. https://www.cnn.com/2025/09/05/tech/google-eu-antitrust-fine-adtech

Spirit Airlines has announced it will cease service to San Diego after October 4.  Other carriers serve the markets Spirit had been flying to out of San Diego this summer.  San Diego is one of the locations the budget airline is giving up as it restructures under its second bankruptcy in a year. https://www.kpbs.org/news/economy/2025/09/04/spirit-airlines-to-stop-service-at-san-diego-international-airport-in-october

 

LIFESTYLE / GREEN LIVING

New this weekend at the movies, another thriller sequel – “The Conjuring: Last Rites” opens wide including some IMAX screens.  And “Hamilton: An American Musical” filmed live on Broadway at the Richard Rodgers Theater with the original Broadway cast opens in wide release.  https://www.movieinsider.com/movies/september/2025?view=list

Lotto sales have been brisk.  There’s a chance tomorrow’s Powerball jackpot could reach $2b. 

 

On this day in music history – September 5,

• 1956, Elvis Presley surprised his mother with the gift of a pink Cadillac.  The car remained with the family and eventually went on display at Graceland.
• In 1964, The Animals began the first of three weeks at #1 on the singles chart with “House of the Rising Sun”.  Original pressings of the single listed the song at 3 minutes in length.  The record company felt revealing the real length of 4 minutes would hurt the song’s chances for radio airplay.
• In 1965, The Rolling Stones recorded their eighth single “Get Off Of My Cloud” at RCA studios in Hollywood.  It went on to top the charts in both the US and Britain.
• In 1966, John Lennon began work on his role as Private Gripweed in the dark comedy “How I Won The War”, directed by Richard Lester, who’d also directed the first two Beatles movies, “Hard Days Night” and “Help”.
• In 1967, The Beatles began recording the song “I Am the Walrus” at EMI’s London studios.
• In 1970, Janis Joplin began recording the Kris Kristofferson and Fred Foster song “Me and Bobby McGee”.  It hit #1 in 1971 after her death – the second posthumous #1 hit after “(Sittin’ On) The Dock of the Bay” by Otis Redding three years earlier.
• In 1981, Soft Cell topped the charts with their version of the 1964 Gloria Jones hit “Tainted Love”.  Jones became the girlfriend of T Rex leader Marc Bolan and was driving the car in which Bolan died in 1977.
• Also in 1981, Stevie Nicks was at #1 on the album chart with “Bella Donna” featuring the hits, “Stop Draggin’ My Heart Around”, “Leather and Lace”, and “Edge of Seventeen”.
• In 1998, after 28 years Aerosmith had their first #1 single with the Diane Warren song “I Don’t Want To Miss A Thing”, which was featured in the film “Armageddon”.
• In 2012, singer-songwriter Joe South died of a heart attack at 72.  He wrote the Lynn Anderson hit “Rose Garden” and had his own solo hits with “Games People Play” and “Walk a Mile in My Shoes”. 
• In 2017, former Tower of Power lead singer Rick Stevens died of cancer at age 77.  After leaving the group and addicted to drugs, he’d killed three men in a 1976 drug dispute for which he spent 36 years in prison.
• In 2021, Black Oak Arkansas guitarist Rickie Reynolds died at the age of 72.

Birthdays today include:

• 1936, Willie Woods from Junior Walker and the All Stars
• 1939, John Stewart from The Kingston Trio.  He also wrote the Monkees hit “Daydream Believer” and had a #5 solo hit in 1979 with “Gold”.
• 1945, Al Stewart whose hits include “Year of the Cat”, “Time Passages” and others.
• 1946, Loudon Wainwright III, whose novelty song “Dead Skunk (In the Middle of the Road)” was a hit in early 1973 – he also appeared a year later as Capt. Spalding, the singing surgeon in several episodes of TV’s M*A*S*H during its 3^rd
• Also in 1946, Freddy Mercury from Queen …
• And Buddy Miles, drummer for The Ink Spots, Wilson Pickett, Santana, Electric Flag and Jimi Hendrix
• 1949, Dave Clempson from Humble Pie
• 1966 Terry Ellis from En Vogue
• 1968, Brad Wilk, drummer for Rage Against the Machine

https://www.thisdayinmusic.com/

Other celebrity birthdays today …

• The second James Bond, George Lazenby is 86
• So is William Devane from TV’s “Knots Landing”
• Cartoonist Cathy Guisewite is 75
• Actor Michael Keaton is 74
• Actress Rose McGowan is 52
• Among those who’ve passed, actor-comedian Bob Newhart was born in 1929
• Actress Raquel Welch was born in 1940.

(Cleveland dot com)

 

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WEATHER

Pala Weather – sunny with a high of 90 this afternoon and tomorrow … 91 Sunday … 87 Monday … patchy morning low clouds and fog, clearing to sunny and 82 Tuesday … 80 Wednesday … 81 Thursday … overnight lows, 60 tonight and tomorrow night … 57 Sunday night … about 55 Monday and Tuesday night … 53 Wednesday night

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