Pala Today News – 9/16/25
Written by John Fox on September 16, 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.
LOCAL AND REGIONAL NEWS
A SigAlert was issued for southbound I-15 at the Rainbow truck scales due to police activity around 11a this morning. Traffic was backed up into Temecula. It was still slow and go as of 11:45a. No details released as to the cause. https://patch.com/california/temecula/sigalert-issued-15-freeway-traffic-backed-temecula
A solo vehicle crash was reported Monday morning at 6:22a on Highway 76 on the first hairpin turn east of the freeway. A Jeep ran off the road, hitting a fence. Just one person on board, who was not seriously injured. The incident briefly closed at least one lane of Highway 76. https://www.villagenews.com/story/2025/09/11/news/span-classbrnwsbreaking-news-spanjeep-goes-over-the-side-of-the-road/79868.html
38-year old Brian Rivas of Lake Elsinore was shot and killed Sunday evening in the 28000 block of Wells Fargo Road, just east of the 15 freeway in Lake Elsinore. Deputies had responded to an assault with a deadly weapon call. Riverside homicide investigators are working the case but haven’t released any details. They’re asking for anyone with information to contact Riverside Sheriffs or Crime Stoppers. https://www.pressenterprise.com/2025/09/15/man-fatally-shot-in-lake-elsinore/
Utah prosecutors have formally charged 22-year old Tyler Robinson for the murder of political activist Charlie Kirk last Wednesday and plan to seek the death penalty for Robinson. https://apnews.com/article/charlie-kirk-tyler-robinson-court-death-penalty-f541df08a936e06497ee2342296bc398
UC Davis, which tracks mountain lions in Southern California through the use of radio-transmitter collars on the cats reports that a 3-year old female, known as F390 was found dead on Highway 74 (Ortega Highway) near San Juan Hills in Orange County on September 4. She was raising two cubs who are now 14 months old. There is no information on their whereabouts since they are not collared. UC Davis reports that 5% of all California mountain lions are killed by vehicle collisions each year. https://www.pressenterprise.com/2025/09/15/mountain-lions-death-on-highway-74-leads-to-push-for-more-protection/
An application on behalf of Habitat for Humanity Inland Valley has been filed and will be reviewed tonight at 6p by the Temecula Planning Commission. It calls for the construction of six affordable, for-sale homes and two multiple-family buildings about 200 feet north of First and Pujol Streets in Old Town Temecula. It’s directly north of an existing Habitat for Humanity single family homes neighborhood on the west side of Pujol Street. To be eligible to own one of the Habitat homes, a buyer must be low-income and invest “sweat equity hours” helping build their own and other future Habitat homes. https://patch.com/california/temecula/low-income-housing-coming-old-town-temecula
Camp Pendleton is notifying North County, Orange County and Southwest Riverside County that live ammunition booming may be heard now through Sunday any time of the day or night. Under the right atmospheric conditions, munitions fire can be heard as far as 50 miles away from the base. https://patch.com/california/temecula/camp-pendleton-sounds-freedom-may-rattle-your-temecula-home
The entertainment lineup has been for Coachella 2026. Headliners include Sabrina Carpenter, Justin Bieber, Teddy Swimms, and Gen-X favorites Devo, David Byrne and Iggy Pop. Next year’s event at Indio Polo Grounds will be the weekends of April 10-12 and 17-19. Tickets begin at $649 for the first weekend and $549 for the second and go on sale this Friday at 11a at www.Coachella.com https://patch.com/california/palmdesert/coachella-lineup-announced-2026-shows-sabrina-carpenter-justin-bieber-karol-g
Pala will be hot today – back into the 80s tomorrow with rain likely by Thursday. 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 had yesterday off. Philadelphia clinched their division by beating the Dodgers 6-5 in ten innings. Arizona routed San Francisco 8-1. That leaves the Dodgers still in the lead in the NL West, but now by just two games over the Padres. Arizona takes over third place, 8 ½ games behind LA, with the Giants in 4th place a half game behind Arizona. Yesterday’s series continue today. The Padres begin a series in New York against the Mets. The Angels, who’ve already been eliminated from playoff contention are at Milwaukee.
In the NFL – The Chargers beat the Raiders 20-9 last night in Las Vegas. The Chargers had 50% more total yardage and 2 fewer turnovers. In the other Monday Night game, Tampa Bay rallied to edge Texas 20-19 with a touchdown at six seconds left on the 4th quarter clock. Week 3 begins Thursday with Miami at Buffalo.
In college football – The Top three teams in the AP rankings remain the same this week. Miami and Georgia each move up one to #4 and #5 as Oregon falls two places to #6. Florida State rose three places to #7. Texas A&M jumped six places to #10 with their upset win. Notre Dame plunged 16 places to #24 with the loss. USC entered the list at #25. https://www.espn.com/college-football/rankings
In the WNBA playoffs – Atlanta is at Indiana tonight with a 1 game to none lead. Las Vegas is at Seattle, leading one game to none.
In hockey – The NHL preseason begins Saturday.
In Major League Soccer – LAFC is in Utah to play Real Salt Lake tomorrow. They host Real Salt Lake on Sunday at BMO Stadium. This Saturday, San Diego FC plays in Atlanta and the Galaxy host FC Cincinnati in Carson.
In local high school sports:
Bonsall – girls’ volleyball hosting Bostonia Global at 5:30p
Great Oak – girls’ golf hosting Vista Murrieta at 3p; girls’ varsity tennis hosting Liberty/Winchester at 3p; girls’ volleyball at Chaparral at 5p
Fallbrook – girls’ golf hosting Ramona at Pala Mesa at 3:30p; girls’ tennis against San Dieguito Academy at 3:30p, varsity hosting, JV away; boys’ water polo at Pacific Ridge at 7p
Valley Center – girls’ golf at Mt. Carmel at 3:15p; boys’ water polo hosting Escondido at 3:30p; girls’ tennis hosting Oceanside at 3:30p; girls’ volleyball hosting Oceanside at 4:30p
BUSINE$$
As of midday trading on Wall Street, stocks were mixed. The Dow fell a quarter percent. The S&P 500 was down a small fraction. The Nasdaq gained a small fraction. Gold gained $7.20 on the Comex, trading at $3,726.20 an ounce. The benchmark West Texas Intermediate Crude oil futures were up $1.29 to $64.59 a barrel.
An appeals court ruled yesterday that Federal Reserve governor, Lisa Cook can remain in her job in spite of President Trump’s executive order firing her. This is the first time a President has attempted such an action since the founding of the independent central bank 112 years ago. Cook is an appointee of the Biden administration. The White House, which has accused Cook of mortgage fraud has said it will appeal yesterday’s decision by the D.C. circuit court to the Supreme Court. But it only has hours to do so and still accomplish its original intent of ousting Cook before the Fed votes on interest rates. The Fed meeting has already begun. https://www.reuters.com/legal/government/us-appeals-court-rejects-trump-bid-oust-feds-lisa-cook-2025-09-16/
The Trump administration is ordering Delta Airlines to unwind its joint venture with Aeromexico by January 1. The Transportation Department called the nearly ten-year old venture anticompetitive in that it allows the two airlines to coordinate schedules and prices for flights between the U.S. and Mexico. The executive order does not undo Delta’s 20% minority equity stake in Aeromexico. https://www.cnbc.com/2025/09/16/trump-administration-orders-delta-aeromexico-to-unwind-joint-venture-by-jan-1.html
President Trump has filed a $15b defamation lawsuit against the New York Times and four of its writers, accusing them of harming his business and personal reputation. The suit alleges that articles and a book published by the Times make the case that he built his fortune and reputation in part through fraud. The suit mentions an interview by the Times in which retired Marine Corp Gen. John F. Kelly who served as Trump’s chief of staff during his first administration warned that he believed Trump met the definition of a fascist. Trump’s lawyers also say the paper wrongly credited Mark Burnett, the producer of the TV reality show “The Apprentice” with its success, rather than Trump, who served as the show’s host and star. Legal experts point out that proving defamation in court has a high bar for public figures. They must prove the defendants knew what they were publishing was false, or that they had serious doubts about the truth in their statements. https://www.npr.org/2025/09/16/nx-s1-5543030/donald-trump-nytimes-lawsuit
LIFESTYLE / GREEN LIVING
Movie star, film industry visionary and founder of the Sundance Institute, Robert Redford has died. He was in more than 80 movies, was an activist for multiple causes, and changed the course of independent filmmaking through his Sundance Institute. As a fairly misbehaved schoolboy in a less-than-affluent part of Los Angeles, he dreamed of being an artist and attended the University of Colorado at Boulder on a baseball scholarship. He worked on an oil rig to make money to study painting in Europe for a year. Back at art school in New York, Redford came to theater acting through an interest in set design and was soon starring on Broadway in Neil Simon’s hit play, “Barefoot in the Park”. He reprised the role in the 1967 movie version co-starring Jane Fonda. He guest starred in a number of high-profile mid-1960s TV shows, but got his big break alongside Paul Newman in “Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid” – the most successful film of 1969. That led to a string of hits including “The Sting”, “The Way We Were”, “The Great Gatsby”, “All the President’s Men”, and “Jeremiah Johnson”. His first directing role was in 1980 with “Ordinary People” which won best picture and best director. But he never won an Oscar for acting. The following year, Redford founded Sundance, which became a launch pad for independent directors including Quentin Tarantino, Steven Soderbergh, and Kevin Smith. Redford cared about the environment and indigenous rights. He died in his sleep this morning at his home in Utah at the age of 89. https://www.npr.org/2025/09/16/1068370058/robert-redford-obituary
A poll by Associated Press and the NORC Center for Public Affairs Research says sports fans are unhappy with the trouble and expense it takes to watch their favorite teams, and sports in general on multiple media platforms. About 4 out of 10 people who follow sports “extremely” or “closely” use cable or satellite along with a sports-only streaming platform. Two out of ten casual sports fans do so. If you want to watch out-of-market teams or catch every game, you just about have to do it on multiple platforms. Activate an NFL package in August. Cancel it after the Super Bowl. Keep paying your cable bill because it’s the only way to get all games for the local baseball team. Then add a subscription to the new ESPN direct streaming service for NCAA. In addition to the complexity, sports fans are not fans of the total cost of doing all that, with many foregoing at least one team or sport they’d like to follow because it’s just too expensive, which in turn leads to less interest in that sport or team. The poll also found that sports fans are a little old fashioned in that they’re less likely to be cord-cutters, with a higher percentage still subscribing to cable or satellite than the general population. https://apnews.com/article/sports-streaming-cable-tv-poll-52a4d826a8baf05d46e71b1aa6a6fc80
Ed McMahon is rolling in his grave. Although Publishers Clearing House filed for bankruptcy back in April, it’s only just coming to light that lifetime prize winners were never made aware of the company’s difficulties, and now they’ve been cut off. In its reorganization, the company listed liabilities between $50m and $100m, including promised prizes. As part of that reorganization, PCH was sold to ARB Interactive. But there was no agreement in the sale to continue paying PCH’s “forever” prize winners. Bottom line, the winners’ annual prize payments have stopped and that’s causing grief for those who counted on the income. https://www.mensjournal.com/news/metal-detectorist-pleads-guilty-lying
On this day in music history – September 16,
- 1963, “She Loves You” by The Beatles was released in the U.S. on Swan Records. Although at #1 in Britain, it was ignored here until the following year, several months after the group’s U.S. breakthrough with “I Wanna Hold Your Hand” in late December of ’63.
- In 1966, a Member of Parliament asked Britain’s House of Commons to officially “deplore” the action of a magistrate who’d earlier called The Rolling Stones “complete morons … who wear filthy clothes”.
- In 1967, Jimi Hendrix debut album, “Are You Experienced?” entered the Hot 200 album chart where it remained for 106 weeks including 77 weeks in the Top 40 of albums. Rolling Stone magazine later named it #15 on their 500 Greatest Albums of All Time.
- In 1970, Led Zeppelin dethroned The Beatles as “best group” in the Melody Makers readers’ poll. The Beatles had won the previous eight annual polls but had officially split up six months before the poll.
- In 1970 Jimi Hendrix joined Eric Burdon on stage for what would become his last public appearance.
- In 1977, T Rex lead singer Marc Bolan was killed when a car driven by his girlfriend hit a tree in Barnes, London.
- In 1979, Sugarhill Gang’s “Rapper’s Delight” was released. It is considered to be the song that first popularized hip hop style.
- In 1996, Pearl Jam played the first night of the “No Code” tour at Key Arena in Seattle. Many venues on the tour were out of the way because of the band’s refusal to play arenas controlled by Ticketmaster.
- In 2006, Bob Dylan was at #2 on the album chart with “Modern Times”. It was his first album since “Desire” 30 years earlier to enter the chart at #1. At age 65, he was also the oldest living musician to ever top the chart. That record was broken in 2011 by 85-year old Tony Bennett.
- In 2008, Motown songwriter and producer Norman Whitfield died of complications from diabetes. He’d collaborated with Barret Strong on songs including “I Heard It Through the Grapevine”, “(I Know) I’m Losing You”, “Cloud Nine”, “War”, and “Pala Was a Rolling Stone”.
- In 2009, Mary Travers from Peter, Paul and Mary passed away after battling leukemia for several years.
- In 2014, Ariana Grande was at #1 with her second studio album, “My Everything”.
Born on this day …
- In 1925, B.B. King
- In 1941, Joe Butler from The Lovin Spoonful
- In 1942, Hollies bass player Bernie Calvert
- In 1944, Betty Kelly from Martha and the Vandellas
- In 1948, Kenny Jones, drummer for Small Faces, the Faces, and later The Who.
- In 1952, Ron Blair from Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers
- In 1963, singer songwriter Richard Marx
- In 1964, Dave Sabo from Skid Row.
- In 1992, Nick Jonas from The Jonas Brothers
https://www.thisdayinmusic.com/search/?keyword=&date=16&month=9
Other celebrity anniversaries today …
- Actor Ed Begley Jr. is 76
- Actor Kurt Fuller is 72
- Actress Jennifer Tilly is 67
- Comedienne Molly Shannon from Saturday Night Live is 61
- Actress and comedienne Amy Poehler also an alumna from SNL is 54
- Among those who’ve passed, Candid Camera creator Allen Funt was born this day in 1914
http://www.davesfunstuff.com/a-dd/2080-date0916.htm
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Pala seniors’ lunch menu for tomorrow (9/17) – beef & green beans, vegetables, roll and dessert
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WEATHER
Pala Weather – sunny with a high of 96 this afternoon … partly sunny and 89 tomorrow with a slight chance of rain and thunderstorms in the afternoon … chance of rain increasing to 50% overnight into Thursday when it’ll be mostly cloudy and 85 with up to a half inch of rain 60% likely … partly sunny and 84 Friday with a 30% chance of more rain and thunderstorms … patchy morning low clouds and fog, clearing to mostly sunny and 86 Saturday … 88 Sunday … 91 Monday … overnight lows, about 66 tonight and tomorrow night … 63 Thursday night … 60 Friday and Saturday night … 62 Sunday night
PROGRAMMING
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FIRE PERMITS
Call the Pala Fire Department at (760) 742-1632 before starting any open fires to get the day’s Cal Fire and APCD recommendations. Fire Department permits are required for any burning on Pala tribal land.
PALA
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COMMUNITY CALENDAR
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RESOURCES
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