Pala Today News – 9/23/25
Written by John Fox on September 23, 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 man walking on I-5 near Basilone Road on Camp Pendleton was struck and killed early Monday morning. CHP responded to reports of a pedestrian walking on northbound I-5, south of Basilone Road, shortly before at 12:30a. As the pedestrian crossed the northbound lanes and entered the southbound side of the freeway, a southbound Ford Mustang driven by a 21-year-old Fontana man struck the unidentified pedestrian, who died at the scene. Multiple lanes of the freeway were closed for up to five hours. https://www.nbcsandiego.com/news/local/deadly-crash-closes-interstate-5-near-camp-pendleton-creating-traffic-delays/3904519/
One of two SUV’s rolled over in a crash this morning at the intersection of South Mission Road and Stagecoach Lane adjacent to Fallbrook High School. It happened at about 7a. One person was reported to be self-transporting to a hospital. https://www.villagenews.com/story/2025/09/18/news/span-classbrnwsbreaking-news-spanvehicle-overturns-in-crash-near-fallbrook-high-school/79926.html
A motorcyclist was injured yesterday afternoon after colliding with a Chevrolet sedan on East Mission Road near Knoll Park Lane just after 4p. EMTs treated the downed rider, whose injuries were not disclosed. https://www.villagenews.com/story/2025/09/18/news/motorcyclist-injured-in-fallbrook-crash-on-east-mission-road/79925.html
A 71-year-old woman who was struck and killed by a vehicle while walking in a crosswalk in Hemet Saturday has been identified as a resident of that city. The Riverside County Sheriff’s Department Coroner’s Bureau identified Debra Dean as having died from injuries sustained shortly before 11:15p that night. A vehicle traveling eastbound on State Route 74 and Columbia Street struck Dean while she was crossing the street. https://patch.com/california/banning-beaumont/coroner-ids-hemet-woman-killed-hit-run
Legoland Carlsbad announced yesterday it will open its new space-themed indoor roller coaster called the Galacticoaster early next year. It’s the park’s first new coaster in 20 years. It’s already been under construction for more than a year. https://www.10news.com/lifestyle/exploring-san-diego/legoland-california-to-launch-galacticoaster-in-2026-first-new-roller-coaster-in-over-20-years
Pala will have one more day with high temperatures in the 90s, then slow slide to the upper 70s by this weekend. 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 beat the visiting Brewers 5-4 in 11 innings. Freddy Fermin singled in automatic runner Bryce Johnson for the walk-off win. Relief pitcher Bradgley Rodriguez got the win – his first of the season as the Padres clinched their fourth playoff berth in the past six seasons. The rest of the NL West had the day off. The Padres-Brewers series continues today. The Dodgers are at Arizona. San Francisco hosts St. Louis. And the Angels host Kansas City.
Major League Baseball’s competition committee yesterday approved the use of the Automated Ball/Strike system last seen at this year’s All-Star Game for use in regular season games next year. Human umpires will still call balls and strikes. But teams can challenge two calls per game with an extra appeal in extra innings. Only a pitcher, catcher or batter can make the challenge, which the team retains if it is successful. Reviews will be shown as digital graphics on outfield videoboards. The adoption of this challenge system is expected to cut down on player and coach ejections, over 60% of which involve pitch call disputes. https://www.espn.com/mlb/story/_/id/46357017/mlb-approves-robot-umpires-2026-part-challenge-system
In the NFL – Detroit beat Baltimore in Monday Night Football, 38-30. Lamar Jackson passed for 288 Raven yards and two touchdowns in spite of getting sacked 7 times.
In college football – In this week’s AP Top 25, Ohio State remains the overwhelming choice to stay at #1. Miami movies up two places to #2. Penn State and LSU each fell one place to #3 and #4. Oklahoma was up four places to #7. Indiana shot up 8 places to #11. Texas Tech gained 5 places to #12. Illinois plunged 14 places to #23 after being routed by Indiana. New to this week’s list is TCU at #24 and BYU at #25.
In the NBA – The preseason begins a week from Thursday on October 2.
In the WNBA playoffs – no games yesterday. Phoenix and Indiana head into tonight’s semi-final Game 2 leading one game to none over Minnesota and Las Vegas respectively. Game 3 will be Friday.
In hockey – Buffalo, Montreal, Tampa Bay, and Anaheim won last night’s preseason games. Among 11 games tonight, the Kings are at Vegas.
In Major League Soccer – This Saturday, LAFC is at St. Louis, the Galaxy host Sporting Kansas City in Carson, and San Diego FC hosts San Jose at Snapdragon Stadium.
In local high school sports:
Bonsall – no scheduled games
Great Oak – girls’ golf hosting Temecula Valley at 3p; girls’ tennis against Chaparral at 3:15p, JV hosting, varsity away; boys’ water polo hosting Vista Murrieta at 5p; girls’ volleyball hosting Murrieta Mesa at 5p
Fallbrook – girls’ golf hosting San Pasqual at Pala Mesa at 3:30p; girls’ tennis against San Pasqual at 3:30p, JV hosting, varsity away; boys’ water polo hosting Ramona at 4p; girls’ volleyball hosting Rancho Buena Vista at 4:30p
Valley Center – girls’ tennis against Rancho Buena Vista at 3:30p, JV hosting, varsity away; varsity girls’ golf hosting Ramona at Native Oaks at 3:30p; girls’ volleyball hosting El Camino at 4:30p; boy’s water polo at Mt. Miguel at 4:30p
BUSINE$$
As of midday trading on Wall Street, stocks were down. The Dow Jones Industrial Average fell a small fraction. The S&P 500 dropped a third of a percent. And the Nasdaq was down just over a half percent. Gold continued to hit new record highs, up $39.10 an ounce, trading at $3,814.20 on the Comex. Oil futures had their biggest one-day gain in a while, up $1.12 at $63.40 a barrel.
H-1B work visas are the latest thing to come under attack from the White House. The H-1B program was created in 1990 to employ foreign workers in specialty occupations including engineering and medical research for three to six years, and only after efforts have been made to fill those jobs with American workers. The program offers 65k visas annually and another 20k for workers with advanced degrees. The fees for those visas was typically $2k to $5k depending on the size of the company and other factors. On Friday, President Trump imposed an additional $100k fee on H-1B visas and barred the workers from entering the U.S. until the employer pays it. The issue will now go to court since federal law only allows Immigration Services, which processes visas to collect fees in an amount necessary to cover costs of administering the program. Because that fee structure was authorized by Congress, it is the opinion of legal scholars that the President does not have the power to separately impose additional fees, especially when their intent appears to be economic and not a national security emergency. https://www.reuters.com/legal/government/can-trumps-100000-fee-h-1b-visas-withstand-legal-challenges-2025-09-23/
Amazon announced today that it is closing all 19 of its Fresh grocery stores in the UK. The first of them had opened in London just a year after Amazon’s first Fresh concept store in Woodland Hills in 2020. Five of the UK locations are expected to become Whole Foods stores. Amazon maintains 500 Whole Foods locations. The company’s adjustment in its grocery operations has already included slower expansion of its Fresh chain and Go cashier-less stores in the U.S. Amazon sees more potential in online delivery. https://www.cnbc.com/2025/09/23/amazon-closing-fresh-grocery-stores-uk.html
Morgan Stanley is just a few months away from offering crypto trading to retail customers through its E-Trade division. The investment firm is partnering with startup, Zerohash, in which Morgan Stanley now has an investment stake, for liquidity, custody and settlement in crypto trading. The federal government’s stance on crypto trading completely reversed with the election of Donald Trump in 2024. Trump has issued his own crypto-currency. Zerohash just received a round of $104m in funding from firms including Morgan Stanley and SoFi. The company provides banks and financial tech firms the ability to offer clients blockchain-based products in the areas of crypto-trading, stablecoins and tokenization.https://www.cnbc.com/2025/09/23/morgan-stanley-crypto-trading-e-trade-next-year.html https://www.cnbc.com/2025/09/23/startup-zerohash-raises-104million-morgan-stanley-sofi-apollo.html
LIFESTYLE / GREEN LIVING
Although Jimmy Kimmel and his network, Disney-owned ABC have agreed on terms for Kimmel’s late-night talk show to return to the air tonight, Nexstar and Sinclair, the two television chains who started the show suspension furor over comments Kimmel made about MAGA on his September 15 show plan to boycott tonight’s broadcast. Together, the two companies own 20% of all ABC affiliate stations. Nexstar is currently seeking to merge with another television chain, Tegna, whose stations include KFMB, Channel 8 in San Diego. Nexstar already owns KTLA, Channel 5 in Los Angeles. That deal requires FCC approval. The Kimmel show was suspended last Tuesday after ABC received threats from FCC Chairman Brendan Carr. Sinclair has also been exploring a major transaction and is lobbying for ownership limit changes to allow it. While the battle over Kimmel appears to be over for now, larger issues are still unresolved. https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/business-news/sinclair-preempt-jimmy-kimmel-live-return-abc-1236377475/
The Trump administration, as expected yesterday claimed an unproven link between autism and the use of acetaminophen by pregnant women. That drug is the active ingredient in one of the world’s most common over-the-counter pain relievers, Tylenol. Trump said the FDA will issue a physician’s notice about the risk of patients using acetaminophen during pregnancy unless they have a fever. The bulk of scientific literature says there is no link between autism and exposure to acetaminophen in the womb. Stock in Kenvue, the maker of Tylenol plunged about 17% on the news. It has since regained about half the loss. https://www.cnbc.com/2025/09/22/trump-autism-tylenol-acetaminophen-pregnancy.html
On this day in music history – September 23,
- 1957, The Crickets were #1 with “That’ll Be the Day” whose title was taken from a line by John Wayne in the movie “The Searchers”.
- In 1965, The Walker Brothers were at #1 in England with the Burt Bacharach song, “Make It Easy on Yourself”. Three years earlier, Jerry Butler’s version had peaked at #20 on the U.S. Hot 100. The Walker Brothers exceeded that, peaking at #16 on the Hot 100.
- In 1967, The Box Tops were at #1 for the first of four weeks with “The Letter”, a song that would also become a top ten hit for Joe Cocker three years later.
- In 1969, the school paper at Northern Illinois University ran a story claiming Paul McCartney had died in a car crash in 1966 and been replaced with a look alike. By late October, the story had gone viral to the point that McCartney came out of seclusion at his Scottish farm to personally deny it, saying “Do I look dead?”.
- In 1974, Robbie McIntosh from Average White Band died of a heroin overdose at a Hollywood party. He inhaled what he thought was cocaine but was actually pure heroin.
- In 1980, Bob Marley collapsed on stage at the Stanley Theater in Pittsburgh. He’d collapsed two days prior while jogging in New York’s Central Park and had been advised to immediately cancel his concert tour, but flew to Pittsburgh for one final performance. It was the last time he ever performed on stage. He died of cancer in May of ’81.
- In 1989 Milli Vanilli began the first of two weeks at #1 with “Girl I’m Gonna Miss You”. The group was later discredited for not having had anything to do with the actual singing of their songs.
- In 2002, musical winners at the Emmys included Sting who won Best Musical Performance for “Sting in Tuscany”. Best reality TV show went to The Osbournes.
- In 2003, Hollywood Boulevard was shut down for a 15-song concert given by Paul McCartney on the roof the El Capitan Theater. A crowd of 10k watched from the street. The performance followed his appearance that day on Jimmy Kimmel Live.
- In 2019, Grateful Dead lyricist Robert Hunter died at the age of 78. His songs included Uncle John’s Band and Dark Star.
Born on this day …
- In 1930, Ray Charles.
- In 1939, guitarist Jerry Cole – a member of The Champs along with Glen Campbell. The Champs had the hit “Tequilla” in 1958 when Cole was 19. Cole and Campbell were both part of the studio musician collective known as The Wrecking Crew. Cole went on to work with Elvis, Jerry Lee Lewis, Roy Orbison, Aretha Franklin, The Righteous Brothers, Little Richard, Ray Charles, Gregg Allman, Blood Sweat & Tears, Neil Diamond, Isaac Hayes and Steely Dan.
- In 1943, Julio Iglesias.
- In 1949, Bruce Springsteen.
https://www.thisdayinmusic.com/search/?keyword=&date=23&month=9
Other celebrity anniversaries today
- Actor Paul Peterson from The Donna Reed Show is 80
- Actress, scriptwriter Mary Kay Place is 78
- Actor Jason Alexander is 66
- Among those who’ve passed, Mickey Rooney was born in 1920
http://www.davesfunstuff.com/a-dd/2080-date0923.htm
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Pala seniors’ lunch menu for tomorrow (9/24) – orange chicken, egg roll, rice, vegetables and dessert
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WEATHER
Pala Weather – mostly sunny with a high of 93 this afternoon … patchy morning low clouds and fog, clearing to sunny and 87 Wednesday … 82 Thursday … 79 Friday … 82 with a slight chance of rain in the afternoon Saturday … 85 Sunday … 87 Monday … overnight lows, 61 tonight … 57 tomorrow through Friday night … about 59 Saturday and 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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