Pala Today News – 9/15/26
Written by John Fox on September 15, 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.
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LOCAL AND REGIONAL NEWS
One person was transported to a local hospital with unknown injuries last evening following a collision at West Kalmia Street and North Pico Avenue in Fallbrook. The San Diego County Sheriff’s Department initially received the report at 7:27 p.m. and transferred the call to the local fire department due to the nature of the crash. The collision involved three vehicles – one was a Tesla. One vehicle was parked at the time. https://www.villagenews.com/story/2026/09/10/news/three-vehicle-collision-involving-parked-car-sends-one-to-hospital-in-fallbrook/82797.html
A 73-year-old man was struck and killed by a passing vehicle after getting out of his vehicle to render aid at a multi-vehicle crash on northbound I-5 in Encinitas on Saturday. Berhane Woldemicael, of San Diego, was struck about 3:05a just north of Leucadia Boulevard. He was pronounced dead at the scene according to the medical examiner’s office. https://thecoastnews.com/man-73-killed-after-stopping-to-help-at-encinitas-freeway-crash/
Authorities say that a 52-year old Wildomar man was arrested in connection with the death of his 74-year old mother more than a year ago. Justin Tyler Scott was taken into custody on Friday and booked into French Valley jail on suspicion of murder and elder abuse. https://www.pressenterprise.com/2026/09/12/wildomar-man-arrested-on-suspicion-of-killing-his-mother/
San Diego County is mailing defaulted tax bills to more than 32,000 property owners who have unpaid 2025-26 taxes. https://patch.com/california/san-diego/property-tax-bills-default-over-32k-san-diego-county-owners
Dolly Parton’s life and legacy will be celebrated in Old Town Temecula at the first annual “Dolly Day” Friday, September 25. Attendees are encouraged to wear a Dolly Parton-inspired look, “spread kindness,” and support businesses in Old Town https://patch.com/california/temecula/dolly-partons-legacy-be-celebrated-during-first-annual-dolly-day-temecula-sept
Some SDG&E equipment was damaged this morning after 9a near Pala Mesa Resort. Power is out for a few customers in the area. No word on how soon it will be back on as of 10:30a. https://outage.sdge.com/
The weather in Pala is going to stay pretty even for the next week with highs mostly in the mid-80s and overnight lows in the mid-50s. The full forecast is coming up. (below)
SPORTS
In Major League Baseball – The Padres edged the Rockies in Denver 8-7. Machado and Tatis homered in the Padres eighth straight win. Same score for Arizona over Miami. The Dodgers beat the Reds 4-1. It clinched for the Dodgers and eliminated the Reds from playoff contention. The Angels beat the Mariners 6-4 in Anaheim. Aaron Judge’s first homer since May helped the Yankees clinch their 61st postseason berth and ninth in the last ten years as the Yankees stomped the Twins 8-2 in Minnesota. Those series all continue today. https://www.espn.com/mlb/story/_/id/49945881/aaron-judge-hits-first-home-run-yankees-clinch-record-61st-postseason-berth
It took two hours of rain delay to get the game started Sunday between the Red Sox and the visiting Royals. But the top of the first inning brought something fairly rare and not that well-known – an immaculate inning pitched by Boston starting pitcher Payton Tolle. He didn’t even know it was a thing until told about it later. It’s striking out the side on the minimum possible nine pitches. The only two that weren’t a swing and a miss Sunday were a called third strike to the leadoff batter and foul ball strike against the final batter. It was the fifth immaculate inning in the majors this season, and only the eighth in Red Sox history. Tolle ended up pitching six scoreless innings in the 4-1 win over Kansas City. https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/7591269/2026/09/13/immaculate-inning-payton-tolle/
In the Minors – The Lake Elsinore Storm won Game One of the California League championship. The best-two-out-of-three series moves to San Jose tonight with Game 3, if needed tomorrow.
In the NFL – Kansas City whupped the visiting Broncos 31-10. Patrick Mahomes passes for 184 yards with Travis Kelce receiving for 71 of them. Kenneth Walker III rushed for 173 yards. Week 2 begins Thursday with Detroit at Buffalo.
The five largest professional sports leagues and their players unions, led by the NFL are urging state regulators to crack down on sports bettors for their escalating harassment and violent threats against players. They collectively sent a letter to 35 states and the District of Columbia today proposing a lifetime ban from legal sportsbooks for individuals who harass or threaten professional or amateur athletes, coaches, officials, team personnel or their families. https://www.espn.com/betting/sports/story/_/id/49949715/nfl-nba-mlb-nhl-mls-urge-action-threats-bettors
In college football – Due to Ohio State’s loss Saturday, Texas moved up three places to #1 on the AP Top 25. Ohio State fell to #6, allowing Indiana to become #4 and Miami to move up two to #5. Oregon’s upset hurt them even worse. They fell 15 places to #21. Oklahoma plunged 13 to #24. https://www.espn.com/college-football/rankings
In Major League Soccer – This Saturday, LAFC is at San Jose and Minnesota United hosts the Galaxy. San Diego FC is at Inter Miami on Sunday.
In the NBA – Following the months-long delay due to the league investigation into the Clippers salary cap circumvention, the trade of Kawhi Leonard to Toronto has become official. The deal was first agreed to on June 30. The original terms of the deal still apply. Leonard waived the trade kicker of $7.45m to keep the Raptors above the first apron cap. In exchange, the Clippers get Brandon Ingram, Gradey Dick, Two unprotected first round picks, one first round pick swap and two second rounders. https://www.espn.com/nba/story/_/id/49941983/clippers-raptors-complete-kawhi-leonard-trade-sources-say
In the WNBA – Games resume Thursday.
In the NHL – The Minnesota Wild have signed head coach John Hynes to a multi-year extension. Since putting Hynes in charge after he replaced Dean Evason partway through the 2023-24 season, the Wild have been 125-78- and 24. They advance to the second round of the playoffs last seaon for the first time in over ten years. https://www.espn.com/nhl/story/_/id/49949878/wild-sign-head-coach-john-hynes-multiyear-extension
In lacrosse – The San Diego Seals
Local high school sports –
Bonsall – girls’ volleyball hosting Guajome Park Academy at 5p
Great Oak – girls’ golf at Vista Murrieta at 3p; flag football at Palm Springs at 6p
Fallbrook – no schedule available
Valley Center – JV girls’ tennis against Oceanside at 3:30p, JV hosting, varsity away; girls’ golf against Mt. Carmel at Rancho Bernardo at 3:30p; varsity boys’ water polo at Escondido at 4p; girls’ varsity volleyball at Grossmont at 5p; flag football at Grossmont at 6p
BUSINE$$
As of midday trading on Wall Street, stocks were down again today. The Dow fell almost 9 tenths of a percent. The S&P 500 was down a half percent. And the Nasdaq was off by 8 tenths. Gold fell another $16 to $4,335.90 an ounce. West Texas Intermediate Crude oil futures gained another $5.07 to $106.46 a barrel.
The Federal Reserve is widely expected to raise interest rates for the first time in three years to fight stubbornly high inflation. According to “Futures Prices”, there is a 90% probability the Fed will increase interest rated a quarter percent tomorrow. But nobody is really certain because new Fed chairman Kevin Warsh doesn’t provide signals of upcoming moves the way his predecessors did. The closest he’s come was a comment at the recent Fed meeting in Jackson Hole, Wyoming that the Fed had not yet achieved its goal of putting inflation in check. The President is still pushing for a rate cut. Earlier this year, at least one cut this year had been expected. But that was before the Iran war got out of hand with recent flare-ups, causing oil and gas prices to soar. https://apnews.com/article/federal-reserve-kevin-warsh-interest-rates-ffd60cca8bb045bb9b1c389f5f1b73af
Abbott Laboratories will pay $385m to settle claims tied to an investigation of contaminated baby formula at its Sturgis, Michigan factory, which led to supply shortages in 2022. The plant, which is the largest baby formula plant in the country, was closed for four months, leading the Biden administration to ease import rules for foreign manufacturers, airlifting formula from Europe and invoking federal emergency rules to avoid a shortage. The Justice Department has closed its criminal investigation and Abbott says the settlement does not represent any finding of fault or liability. https://apnews.com/article/abbott-infant-formula-justice-michigan-recall-23b355c26f6347a7e07565aba76d0e4f
Automotive analyst John Murphy has released his latest outlook for the U.S. auto market. He expects the demand for gas-electric hybrids to surge over the next four years and account for more than one third of new vehicles by 2030. He also thinks it’s unlikely that U.S. lawmakers will allow a flood of cheap Chinese vehicles to enter the U.S. market because of the damage it would do to domestic manufacturers. Vehicles built in China and imported into the U.S. currently face a 100% tariff, which has effectively kept them off the market here. Chinese automakers BYD and Geely are expected to begin selling vehicles in Canada this fall. Starting next year, the Commerce Department will ban automakers from importing and selling vehicles in the U.S. that contain technology developed or manufactured by Chinese companies. Thanks to competition from Chinese vehicles sold worldwide, it’s expected that between five and ten auto brands currently sold in the U.S. will disappear over the next decade. There are currently 38 auto brands sold in the U.S. Maserati, Alfa Romeo, Jaguar, Fiat and Polestar are the most likely to go. https://www.cnbc.com/2026/09/15/us-auto-market-predictions-2030-john-murphy.html
LIFESTYLE / GREEN LIVING
President Trump’s approval rating improved from an all-time low of 33% to 35% following the Republican Midterm Convention in Dallas last week. Yet 63% of Americans polled disapprove of his promise to pay everybody $5k if the Republicans win in November. If that same poll is correct, he might not have to make good on the promise anyway. 44% of respondents show a preference for the Democratic party compared with 37% for Republicans. That’s the widest gap since Trump returned to office. His boast that “overall numbers for the convention beat the NFL” was a little off as well. According to Nielsen ratings, 25m viewers watched this year’s NFL season opener. 2.5m watched the convention. https://www.forth.news/stories/Cf4EC7e4vtmGsdyExjwJ6
While gasoline and diesel prices are rising, motor oil prices are soaring. And Costco is putting a limit on the amount of motor oil customers can buy to prevent a run by those hoping to stock up before prices get even worse. Kirkland-brand 5-quart two-packs are now going for about $58. Just last year, they were about $30. And there’s now a limit of two boxes per week. It’s also selling six-pack quarts of Mobil 1 full synthetic for $44 with a limit of five. Synthetic motor oils are heavily dependent on Group III base oils which are mostly made from refining crude oil that is 40% imported from the Middle East. The international benchmark for crude oil, the Brent Crude index has risen from $72 in July to about $104 a barrel today. https://apnews.com/article/costco-motor-oil-diesel-iran-amazon-kirkland-f5fafbcc6f6befe718b61f7cdf3d3e38
On this day in music history – September 15,
- 1956, Elvis Presley began the first of five weeks at #1 with “Don’t Be Cruel”, which ended up being the biggest-selling single of his career, helped along by the B-side being “Hound Dog”.
- In 1961, The Pendletones had their first professional recording session at Hite Morgan’s studio in LA. They recorded a song called “Surfin’” and in keeping with the theme, changed their name to The Beach Boys.
- In 1962, The Four Seasons were at #1 for the first of five weeks with “Sherry”.
- In 1965, still unknown outside R&B circles, Otis Redding released his third studio album, “Otis Blue”. It was mostly cover songs by more popular R&B and Soul artists.
- On the same day, the Ford Motor Company became the first carmaker to offer an 8-track tape player as an option across its entire line of vehicles. The tapes were initially only available at auto parts stores.
- In 1967, filming continues on The Beatles’ “Magical Mystery Tour” with impromptu lunch at a Taunton, Somerset fish & chips shop being filmed and later included in the movie.
- In 1968, The Doors had to perform as a trio at a concert in Amsterdam after Jim Morrison collapsed while dancing during Jefferson Airplane’s lead-in performance.
- In 1970, U.S. Vice President Spiro Agnew said that the youth of America were being “brainwashed into a drug culture” by rock music, movies, books and underground newspapers.
- In 1975, Pink Floyd released their 9th album, “Wish You Were Here” exploring the themes of absence, the music business and the mental decline of former band-mate Syd Barrett. It went to #1 and spent a total of 84 weeks on the chart
- In 1979, Led Zeppelin began the first of 7 weeks at #1 with their final album of new material, “In Through the Out Door”.
- In 1990, Steve Miller’s “The Joker” hit #1 in the UK 16 years after its original release when it went to #1 in the U.S. It holds the record for longest gap between transatlantic chart toppings. Its late success in Britain was due to its use in a Levi’s ad.
- On the same day in the U.S., Wilson Phillips had their second #1 single with “Release Me”.
- In 1997, a 34-year old man was awarded about $35k from a French court after losing his hearing from standing too close to loudspeakers at a U2 concert four years earlier.
- In 2004, Ramones guitarist Johnny Ramone (real name John Cummings) died after a five-year battle with prostate cancer.
- In 2008, Pink Floyd keyboardist and founding member Richard Wright died of cancer at age 65. Wright, Syd Barrett, Roger Waters and Nick Mason were the lineup on the group’s first album “Piper at the Gates of Dawn” in 1968. David Gilmour joined the band just after its recording and ended up replacing the unstable Barrett.
- In 2019, Ric Ocasek, former lead singer with The Cars was found dead in his apartment at the age of 75. Ocasek went solo in the late 80s and produced albums for others including Weezer and No Doubt.
Born on this day …
- In 1941, Signe Anderson, original lead singer for Jefferson Airplane. She was replaced by Grace Slick before the group’s second album.
- In 1946, Ola Brunkert, drummer for ABBA.
- In 1960, Michel Dorge, drummer for Crash Test Dummies.
https://www.thisdayinmusic.com/search/?keyword=&date=15&month=9
Other celebrity anniversaries today …
- Actor Tommy Lee Jones is 79
- Among those who’ve passed, humorist, writer, actor and member of the Algonquin Round Table, Robert Benchley was born this day in 1889
- Country singer Roy Acuff was born in 1903
- Actress Penny Singleton who played the title role in the “Blondie” movie series and was the voice of cartoon character Jane Jetson was born in 1908
- Actor, director Jackie Cooper was born in 1922
- Comedian Norm Crosby, famous for his mangling of the English language was born in 1927
- character actress Wendie Jo Sperber from TV’s “Bosom Buddies”, and movies including “Private Benjamin” and “1941” was born in 1958
http://www.davesfunstuff.com/a-dd/2080-date0915.htm
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WEATHER
Pala Weather – sunny with a high of 84 and winds gusting up to 20 miles an hour … cloudy in the morning, clearing to mostly sunny and 82 tomorrow … 84 Thursday … 86 Friday … 87 Saturday … 86 Sunday … 85 Monday … overnight lows, 55 tonight … 53 tomorrow night … about 55 Thursday through Sunday night
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