Pala Today News – 9/12/25
Written by John Fox on September 12, 2025
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.
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LOCAL AND REGIONAL NEWS
Late this morning, 22-year old Tyler Robinson, the suspected shooter of conservative political activist Charlie Kirk was turned over to authorities by his family. Robinson is a third-year student at Dixie Technical College in St. George, Utah. He’ll be formally charged on Tuesday. All the usual network news sources will have full updated details of this breaking story. https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/live-blog/charlie-kirk-shooter-manhunt-live-updates-rcna230762
The San Diego County Registrar of Voters office has sent over 2 million postcards to the county’s registered voters listing their voting options for the November 4 special election. Every active registered voter will receive a ballot in the mail and will have three options for returning their ballot: by mail, to one of the Registrar’s official ballot drop boxes, or at any vote center. Voters can expect to receive their ballot the week of October 6, giving them almost a month to mark their ballot and return it by the final day of voting on Nov. 4. https://www.villagenews.com/story/2025/09/11/news/postcards-sent-to-registered-voters-for-november-special-election/79857.html
A new grocery store-style 1,400-square-foot market is now open and available to the unhoused and down-on-their-luck at Brother Benno’s on Production Avenue in Oceanside. The “store” is stocked with fresh produce, eggs, meat, dairy, herbs, breads and other items which are donated every morning by Albertson’s, Chick-fil-A, Trader Joe’s, Vons, Walmart, Target, Food for Less and Coca-Cola. https://www.newsbreak.com/abc-10-news-kgtv-563645/4226350931107-new-market-for-the-homeless-and-others-opens-in-oceanside
A total of 40 California Target stores will be among the 500 nationwide that will open at midnight Friday, October 3 for the release of Taylor Swift’s much-anticipated new album, “The Life of a Showgirl”. The Target-exclusive CD versions of the album have a purchase limit of four per customer. Among the 40 listed locations are Encinitas and Menifee. https://patch.com/california/temecula/ca-target-stores-host-midnight-release-taylor-swift-s-life-showgirl
Well over 1k SDG&E customers in Carlsbad and La Costa lost power this morning around 9:18a. It’s expected to be restored by 3p this afternoon. https://www.sdge.com/residential/customer-service/outage-center/outage-map
Mild weather in Pala for the next couple of days. But it’s going to heat up again next week with a chance of rain towards the end of the week. 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. Mass will not be broadcast on 9/21 due to staffing limitations.
SPORTS
In Major League Baseball – The Padres shut out the Rockies with a 2-0 win last night. Randy Vasquez pitched 6 scoreless innings, striking out 9 and allowing four hits and no walks. Robert Suarez got his 37th save of the season. Jackson Merrill had a solo homer in the 4th. The Dodgers had the day off. So, the Padres pull within 2 ½ games of first-place Los Angeles in the NL West. Seattle topped the visiting Angels 7-6 in 12 innings thanks to a walk-off sacrifice fly by rookie pinch hitter Harry Ford. Mike Trout ended his 28-game home run drought with #399 in the losing effort. It was Trout’s 21st homer of the season and first since August 6.
Yankees captain Aaron Judge belted two home runs in this first tow at-bats in last night’s 9-3 win over Detroit. At 361, that ties him with Joe DiMaggio for fourth place on the franchise all-time home run list. Babe Ruth, Mickey Mantle and Lou Gehrig are still ahead of Judge. https://www.espn.com/mlb/story/_/id/46229060/aaron-judge-ties-joe-dimaggio-4th-yankees-home-run-list
Weekend series begin today with the Dodgers at San Fransicso, the Diamondbacks at Minnesota, and the Angels at Seattle. The four-game Padres-Rockies series continues with game 2 tonight.
In the NFL – Last night at Green Bay, the Packers dominated the visiting Commanders, winning 27-18. Green Bay had 170 more yards of offense and 50% more first downs while holding the ball seven minutes more than Washington. Green Bay’s Jordan Love completed 19 of 31 passes including two touchdowns. This Sunday’s games include the Chargers at Tennessee at 10a on CBS. The Rams are at Las Vegas Monday night.
In college football – UCLA has a game tonight hosting New Mexico. Saturday’s biggest matchups include #6 Georgia looking to extend its win streak against #15 Tennessee at 12:30p on ABC. USC is at Purdue at 12:30p. #5 Miami hosts #18 South Florida at 1:30 on CW. #8 Notre Dame hosts #16 Texas A&M at 4:30p on NBC.
In college basketball – In addition to three players at Fresno State and San Jose State already sanctioned, the NCAA is investigating potential violations of sports betting rules involving 13 former men’s basketball players at six schools. The NCAA’s integrity monitoring program and network of sources flagged text and direct messages mentioning betting on regular season games. The athletes involved will not be named until after the investigation is complete. None of them are currently enrolled at the schools where the alleged violations took place. One of them is Arizona State, which says it is cooperating fully with the investigation and is not implicated in the potential violations. https://apnews.com/article/ncaa-basketball-sports-betting-a30eaa5f0ec65c4638a8cd01a10842b2
In the WNBA – The regular season wrapped up last night with Las Vegas routing the Sparks in Los Angeles 103-75. That eliminated the Sparks from getting a playoff spot. They finished the season in 9th place. Other winners were New York, Dallas and first-place Minnesota. Playoffs begin Sunday with Golden State at Minnesota, Indiana at Atlanta on ABC at noon, New York at Phoenix, and Seattle at Las Vegas. https://www.espn.com/wnba/schedule
In hockey – The preseason beings one week from tomorrow.
In Major League Soccer – Tomorrow, the Galaxy will play the Sounders in Seattle, LAFC plays the San Jose Earthquakes in Santa Clara, and San Diego FC hosts Minnesota at Snapdragon Stadium. https://www.espn.com/soccer/schedule/_/date/20250908/league/usa.1
In golf – AT the Procore Championship in Napa, yesterday’s leader, Mackenzie Hughes has yet to tee off in today’s round two, which is currently a battle between Ben Griffin and Russell Henley at 13-under par. https://www.espn.com/golf/leaderboard
In racing – NASCAR Cup playoff racing this Sunday at Bristol Motor Speedway.
In local high school sports:
Bonsall – no scheduled games today
Great Oak – girls’ varsity tennis at a tournament at Poly in Riverside all day; boys’ water polo at Chino Hills at 2p today and all day tomorrow; field hockey hosting Huntington Beach at 3:30p; Tomorrow – girls’ JV volleyball at a tournament at Edison all day; girls’ flag football at Elsinore at 10a
Fallbrook – girls’ volleyball at High Tech at 3p; cross country at Kit Carson Park at 3p; football at Imperial at 5p; Tomorrow – girls’ varsity volleyball at a tournament at Mission Bay and field hockey at University City all day
Valley Center – cross country at Kit Carson Park at 4p; football hosting Westview at 4:30p; field hockey at Chaparral at 5p; Tomorrow – girls’ varsity volleyball at a tournament at Calvin Christian all day
BUSINE$$
As of midday trading on Wall Street, stocks were mixed. Coming off yesterday’s record high, the Dow fell four tenths of a percent. The S&P 500 was up a small fraction. The Nasdaq gained four tenths of a percent. Gold traded $14.20 higher on the Comex at $3,687.60 an ounce. West Texas Intermediate Crude oil futures were up 20 cents at $62.57 a barrel.
A major, but not-so-well-known bank that was a key provider of subprime auto loans has collapsed amid allegations of fraud. Tricolor Holdings also operates a chain of used car dealerships in the Southwest including Tricolor Auto, Ganas, and Ganas Ye. The company filed for bankruptcy yesterday. But unlike most companies that use the process to restructure and stay in business, Tricolor plans to liquidate. Tricolor is the second subprime auto lender in trouble in recent weeks. Automotive Credit Corp paused all new loans indefinitely just over a month ago. The parent company of Kelley Blue Book reports that currently just under 14% of auto loans nationwide go to subprime buyers. Almost all are used car loans. There’s concern that Tricolor’s bankruptcy could have ripple effects in the loan industry. Large banks often back smaller ones. JP Morgan Chase, Fifth Third Bankcorp and Barclays are among those who stand to lose hundreds of millions of dollars from loans tied to Tricolor. That, in turn will make all car loans harder to get moving forward. https://www.kbb.com/car-news/a-big-auto-lender-went-bankrupt-heres-what-it-means/
Stock in both Pfizer and Moderna fell on news that the Trump administration plans to link child deaths to Covid shots. https://www.cnbc.com/2025/09/12/pfizer-moderna-shares-fall-on-trump-child-covid-shot-report.html
Paramount Skydance is preparing a bid to acquire Warner Bros. Discovery, whose stock closed up more than 28% yesterday on the news. It was the stock’s best day ever. Paramount Skydance closed up 15%. The actual offer hasn’t yet been made, nor are details of it available. https://www.cnbc.com/2025/09/11/warner-bros-discovery-paramount-skydance-bid.html
LIFESTYLE / GREEN LIVING
Four wide releases this weekend at the movies, “Downton Abbey: The Grand Finale” is the third film in that franchise. “The Long Walk” is a thriller about a deadly contest. There’s also the 30th anniversary re-release of the original “Toy Story” animated adventure. And 41 years after the original “This is Spinal Tap”, there’s finally a sequel called “Spinal Tap II: The End Continues Movie”. It stars the original cast plus their 12th drummer and is once again directed by and co-stars Rob Reiner. Cameos include Paul McCartney and Elton John.
Among the rush of last-minute legislation in Sacramento before scheduled end of session tomorrow is SB 586, which was unanimously approved by the state Senate yesterday. The measure for the first time allows electric motorcycles to be registered as off-highway vehicles so they can legally and safely access OHV areas. Sponsored by Senate Minority Leader Brian Jones from San Diego, the bill was designed with the support of OHV enthusiasts who say the lack of registration protocols and rules for this new category of OHV has created worsening chaos as the popularity of eMotos has increased. SB 586 now goes to Gov. Newsom for his signature before becoming law on January 1. (Sen. Brian Jones media release)
State lawmakers have also passed a bill to ban masks that shield the identity of ICE agents making federal raids in California, and another that allows patients’ names to be left off of abortion pill bottles to protect health care providers who send pills to states with abortion bans and patients who fear being identified. Gov. Newsom is expected to sign the pill bottle identity bill, but has not indicated whether he will sign the ICE mask bill. www.NYTimes.com
One bill that’s still being considered is SB 682, which would ban so-called “forever chemicals”, or PFAS in cookware, cleaning products, dental floss, ski wax, food packaging and some children’s products. The term forever chemicals refers to their resistance to breaking down in the environment and eventual accumulation in people and animals. The best-known PFAS is “Teflon”. California and more than a dozen other states have already limited PFAS use. They’re currently banned in carpets, textiles and firefighting foam. High-profile chefs including Rachel Ray have come out against the bill, saying non-stick pans are safe when manufactured and used correctly and that banning them could make cooking more difficult and costlier for families, leading to poorer nutrition. The Cookware Sustainability Alliance notes that Teflon is a fluoropolymer, and that such PTFEs, though technically part of the PFAS family have been shown for decades to be inert and non-harmful. Environmentalists including actor Mark Rufallo, who starred in the 2019 film “Dark Waters” about forever chemical contamination support the bill. SB 682 has been passed by the Senate, but is still under consideration by the Assembly. https://www.cbsnews.com/news/california-bill-ban-forever-chemicals-cookware/
On this day in music history – September 12,
- In 1954, the first teen idol, Frank Sinatra was topping charts with “Three Coins in the Fountain”. It won an Oscar for Best Original Song for that year.
- In 1963, The Beatles – still several months from becoming known in the U.S. were at the top of the British charts for the second time with “She Loves You”. It became the biggest seller of the year in Britain and the best-selling of all the group’s singles there.
- In 1964, fighting back against the British music invasion, The Supremes, The Shangi-La’s, Marvin Gaye, Dusty Springfield, The Ronettes, Millie Small, The Temptations, The Miracles and Little Anthony and the Imperials all appeared together at The Fox Theater in Brooklyn.
- In 1966, NBC aired the first episode of the new sitcom, “The Monkees”. The show ran for two seasons and a total of 58 episodes.
- In 1967, filming continued for The Beatles’ “Magical Mystery Tour” movie. The project, with even less scripting than today’s “reality shows” called for filling a bus with interesting people, heading for various places with pre-arranged situations and just filming whatever happened. Not a lot did.
- In 1970, Smokey Robinson & The Miracles were at #1 with “The Tears of a Clown”, written by Stevie Wonder, who was discovered by Miracles member, Ronnie White.
- On the same day, Credence Clearwater Revival had the #1 album with “Cosmo’s Factory”. It remained #1 for nine weeks.
- In 1987, Michael Jackson kicked of his world tour supporting the album, “Bad” playing the first of three nights at a stadium in Tokyo. 123 shows later, more than 4m people had seen the show across 15 countries.
- In 1989, Aerosmith released their 10th studio album, “Pump”, including the hit singles “Love In An Elevator”, “The Other Side”, and “Jamie’s Got a Gun”.
- In 1990, Stevie Nicks and Christine McVie announced they were leaving Fleetwood Mac at the end of the current concert tour.
- In 1997, founder of the Polar Music record label and ABBA’s manager, Stig Anderson died of a heart attack. He’d co-written many of the group’s biggest hits including “Waterloo”, “Mamma Mia”, “S.O.S.”, “Fernando”, and “Dancing Queen”.
- In 2003, Johnny Cash died of respiratory failure at age 71.
- In 2007, the surviving members of Led Zeppelin announced they would reform with the late John Bonham’s son, Jason on drums in a memorial concert for Atlantic Records founder, Ahmet Ertegun at O2 Arena in London on November 26.
- In 2008, Kanye West was arrested for vandalism after a scuffle with a photographer at LA International Airport in which a $10k camera was broken.
Born on this day …
- In 1931, country singer George Jones, nicknamed “Possum”. His signature song was “He Stopped Loving Her Today”.
- In 1940, Tony Bellamy from Redbone, the first Native American group to have a #1 hit in the U.S. and internationally
- In 1943, Maria Muldaur, who had a Top Ten hit in 1974 with “Midnight at the Oasis”
- In 1944, Colin Young from the British band, The Foundations, who had hits in the late 1960s with “Build Me Up Buttercup” and “Baby, Now That I’ve Found You”.
- On the same day, soul singer & producer Barry White who had #1 hits with “You’re the First, the Last, My Everything” and “Can’t Get Enough of Your Love Baby”.
- In 1952, drummer for Rush, Neil Peart
- In 1956, Barry Andrews, keyboardist for XTC
- In 1981, Oscar winning actress and singer, Jennifer Hudson
- In 1994, RM – real name, Kim Nam-joon from the South Korean boy band, BTS
https://www.thisdayinmusic.com/search/?keyword=&date=12&month=9
Other celebrity anniversaries today …
- Actress Linda Gray was born in 1940
- Activist Leonard Peltier was born in 1944
- Actor Joe Pantoliano was born in 1951
- Actor Peter Scolari was born in 1955
- Actress Rachel Ward was born in 1957
- Basketball center Yao Ming was born in 1980
- Among those who’ve passed, star of the 1936 Berlin Olympics, American Jesse Owen was born in 1913
- Welsh actor Desmond Llewelyn, best known as Q in over a dozen James Bond movies was born in 1914
- Paul Walker from the Fast & Furious movie franchise was born in 1973
https://www.thefamouspeople.com/september-12th.php
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WEATHER
Pala Weather – sunny with a high of 80 this afternoon … 82 tomorrow … patchy morning low clouds and fog, clearing to sunny and 85 Sunday … 89 Monday … 92 Tuesday … 94 Wednesday … 92 with a slight chance of rain and thunderstorms Thursday … overnight lows, 52 tonight … 54 tomorrow night … 56 Sunday night … 58 Monday night … 62 Tuesday night … 64 Wednesday night
FIRE PERMITS
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