Pala Today News – 10/26/26
Written by John Fox on October 26, 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 injured in a mobile home fire in Oceanside this morning. It was reported around 7a in the 200 block of North El Camino Real. Fire crews managed to prevent flames from spreading to neighboring homes. One resident was treated for smoke inhalation. No firefighters were injured. https://patch.com/california/oceanside-camppendleton/1-injured-oceanside-mobile-home-fire
San Diego Sheriff’s deputies arrested 50-year old Alejandro Delgado on Saturday at his home on Stoneridge Place for the stabbing of a 70-year old victim in San Marcos around 10:20p Friday night. It happened in the 100 block of Woodland Parkway. Paramedics treated the victim, who was transported to a local hospital. That person’s identity and condition have not been made public. Delgado is being held for attempted murder in Vista jail. https://www.newsbreak.com/fox-5-san-diego-1589916/4966395812891-man-arrested-for-attempted-murder-of-70-year-old-in-san-marcos
An Amber Alert issued around 3a last night was cancelled a couple of hours later. 6-year old Joseph Garcia had allegedly been taken by his grandfather in the city of Orange late yesterday afternoon. 47-year old Frank Ramirez was located by authorities, but no other details were released. https://abc7.com/post/amber-alert-issued-6-year-old-boy-taken-grandfather-orange-county-chp-says/19980569/
A truck caught fire inside Fallbrook Car Wash at 221 E. Alvarado Street yesterday. The fire began in the engine compartment and was quickly put out. There were no injuries and damage was limited to the vehicle. https://www.villagenews.com/story/2026/10/22/news/truck-catches-fire-at-fallbrook-car-wash-no-injuries-reported/83107.html
Metrolink is suspending service on the coastal rail line between Oceanside and Laguna Niguel/Mission Viejo through Friday because of anticipated high tides. Television news has been showing videos of waves crashing against passing trains. Amtrak and freight service will continue all this week with the possibility of delays due to high tides. https://patch.com/california/oceanside-camppendleton/metrolink-suspends-oceanside-service-5-days-due-high-tides
Expect delays on the north side of the College Boulevard Bridge in Oceanside to continue while a developer waits for a key federal permit to keep construction moving. The privately funded widening will eventually add lanes and cantilevered sidewalks. But for now pedestrians and cyclists must stick to the reopened south side as the city works with Lennar and the Army Corps to resolve permitting issues. https://patch.com/california/oceanside-camppendleton/patch-am-why-oceanside-s-college-bridge-expansion-nodx-20261025
Pala will have seasonable and sunny weather through Thursday with rain developing into this weekend. The full forecast is coming up. (below)
SPORTS
In Major League Baseball – The Milwaukee Brewers head to Tampa for Game Three of this year’s World Series having won both of the first two games in their home stadium. Saturday’s game saw the Brewers rally to win 5-4, ending with a double celebration when the first part of a game-ending double play was challenged and it was found that Tampa’s runner was safe at second base. That allowed the Rays one more chance. But the final strike out of the next batter let the celebration in Milwaukee resume. Game Three is today at 5p on Fox.
In the NFL – The Chargers are still winless – only because they didn’t play this weekend. The Rams beat the Raiders in Las Vegas 35-21. Other winners yesterday included Pittsburgh, Atlanta, Cleveland, Minnesota, Miami, Tampa Bay, Cincinnati, Denver, Detroit, Seattle, and the Giants over the Texans in Houston 27-21 in overtime. Tonight’s have is Dallas at Philadelphia tonight at 5p on ABC.
In Major League Soccer – San Diego and Seattle tied at two all at Snapdragon Stadium on Saturday. LAFC and the Galaxy tied at 2 Sunday at BMO stadium.
In the NBA – The Lakers beat the Jazz 132-123 yesterday with Luka Doncic scoring a league-wide season-high 52 points. They beat crosstown rivals, The Clippers 125-117 on Friday. Yesterday’s other winners were Indiana, Orlando, Minnesota, Oklahoma City, Detroit and Memphis.
In the WNBA finals – Golden State tied the series at two game apiece Saturday with a 67-62 win at Atlanta. The series moves to the Bay Area tonight at 5p for Game Five. Game 6 will be Thursday in Atlanta.
In the NHL – Yesterday’s winners were Florida, Dallas, Montreal, Nashville, and Minnesota. Three games today including the Kings at the New York Rangers.
In golf – At the Butterfield Bermuda Championship, after finishing in a tie with Seamus Power through three rounds at 16 under par, 197, Austin Smotherman won on the third hole of sudden death. https://www.espn.com/golf/leaderboard
In racing – Kimi Antonelli won the US Grand Prix yesterday at Circuit of the Americas. Kyle Larson won yesterday’s NASCAR Cup race at Talladega.
Local high school sports
Bonsall – flag football at Calvin Christian at 5p
Great Oak – girls’ golf at regional playoffs at 10a
Fallbrook – no schedule published
Valley Center – field hockey at Mission Vista at 4p
BUSINE$$
As of midday trading on Wall Street, stocks were up. The Dow gained 2 tenths of a percent. The S&P 500 rose two thirds of a percent. And the Nasdaq was up 8 tenths. Gold gained $23.70 on the Comex, trading at $4,031.60 an ounce. West Texas Intermediate Crude oil futures fell 38 cents to $102.89 a barrel.
Artificial intelligence company Anthropic has filed for what may be the biggest initial public offering of stock ever, making the five-year old startup one of the world’s most valuable companies. Next month’s Wall Street debut could eclipse the $86b raised when SpaceX went public in June and will make CEO, Dario Amodei and his sister and co-founder, Daniela additional billions. Currently valued at just under $1 trillion by private investors, the IPO could double that. All this from a company that reported a net loss of $80.7b for the first half of 2026. OpenAI is expected to follow with its own IPO. Anthropic’s IPO comes at a time when Dario Amodei is warning that advanced AI could pose an existential threat to humanity. https://apnews.com/article/anthropic-ipo-shares-public-ca2f4c282bef3201a392e59e3df2300c
Microsoft has offered 60k employees, or about 27% of its global workforce voluntary buyouts in the face of increased use of AI. Shares in Microsoft recently hit an all-time high and were up 1% today. https://apnews.com/article/microsoft-buyout-ai-layoff-xbox-c5a639f53615be198db1799adf6837e1
Last week, the Trump administration announced it was suspending Microsoft and several other firms from a program allowing foreign workers to apply for green cards, alleging fraud. https://apnews.com/article/h1b-visa-program-vance-microsoft-e7b3a407f822702b269ee277d21343ea
American Express announced it is cutting 5% of its workforce as it prepares for AI. Amex had about 77k employees as of the end of last year. https://www.cnbc.com/2026/10/23/american-express-job-cuts.html
They’ve only been on the market since Friday, but some purchasers of the new $2k iPhone Duo, Apple’s first foldable phone are reporting cracks in the screen where it folds. Apple said today that it is aware of the issue, which it says is only affecting a “small number” of phones and that they will be repaired under warranty. That’s a repair job that will cost just shy of $1k once the phone is out of warranty. Breaking screens have been an issue with foldable phones since their debut in 2019. It’s been one of the major roadblocks to widespread adoption of the technology. https://www.cnbc.com/2026/10/26/apple-responds-to-user-reports-of-broken-iphone-duo-screens.html
LIFESTYLE / GREEN LIVING
Over the weekend at the movie box office, the sci-fi horror thriller “Clayface” opened with the weekend’s best ticket sales – $24m. “You Can See Everything” remained in second place and increased to $19.5m this weekend after being added to an additional 1,800 screens. “Wildwood” debuted in third place with $11.6m on just under 3k screens. “Street Fighter” dropped from first to fourth with $8.6m. “Wicker” opened in fifth with $5.7m. The total for this weekend’s top ten films was only slightly less than last week and better than average for the year. https://www.boxofficemojo.com/weekend/2026W43/
Actor Walter Koenig, best remembered at Ensign Chekov on the original Star Trek TV series and movies has died at his North Hollywood home. Koenig joined Star Trek in its second season and appeared in seven Star Trek films. He also played a villainous cop in the sci-fi series “Babylon 5”. He was also a writer and a teacher. Walter Koenig was 90. https://patch.com/california/los-angeles/iconic-star-trek-actor-dies-90
Halloween candy isn’t selling like it used to. Sales were down 6.7% this month so far compared with last Halloween. That’s better than the 11.7% year-over-year decline last month. US candy prices have been climbing faster than inflation for several years. Aldi is currently advertising a bag of Mars chocolate candies for trick or treaters that’s about half the size of one five years ago for almost the same price as the one five years ago – almost $20. Between consumers pressed by the high cost of fuel and the price for raw ingredients of chocolate skyrocketing, a decline in sales was predictable. But even non-chocolate candies aren’t selling well – and their cost is about 3% lower than last year. Watch out, Charlie Brown. You may actually be getting a rock in your trick or treat bag this year. https://apnews.com/article/halloween-candy-sales-chocolate-prices-treats-0b1126f30969a21710ba995416c5b905
On this day in music history – October 26,
- 1958, Bill Haley and his Comets played the first-ever rock ‘n’ roll concert in Germany. 7k fans turned it into a riot
- In 1962, The Rollin’ Stones (they hadn’t earned their “g” yet) with a lineup of Keith Richards, Mick Jagger, Brian Jones, Ian Stewart on keyboards, and Tony Chapman on drums recorded their first demo tape in London. It consisted of three songs – Jimmy Reed’s “Close Together”, Bo Diddley’s “You Can’t Judge a Book By The Cover”, and Muddy Waters’ “Soon Forgotten”.
- In 1965, the four members of The Beatles received MBE’s from Queen Elizabeth II at Buckingham Palace. Many former recipients gave theirs back in protest. To which John Lennon responded “Lots of people … received theirs for heroism in the war, for killing people. We received ours for entertaining other people. I’d say we deserve ours more.”
- In 1968, The San Francisco Pop Festival was held at Alameda County Fairgrounds. The event featured The Animals, Procol Harum, Iron Butterfly, Jose Feliciano, Deep Purple, Creedence Clearwater Revival and Canned Heat.
- In 1970, a wake was held at The Lion’s Share in San Anselmo, California to celebrate the life of Janis Joplin. She’d left $2,500 in her will to throw a wake in the event of her death.
- In 1991, rock promoter Bill Graham, his girlfriend and the pilot were killed when the helicopter they were in struck a PG&E transmission tower near Sears Point and exploded. Graham founded the Fillmore Theaters in San Francisco and New York and was a major early supporter of bands including The Who, Jimi Hendrix Experience, Janis Joplin, The Band, J. Geils, The Allman Brothers and The Rolling Stones.
- In 1999, singer, songwriter and actor Hoyt Axton died of a heart attack at the age of 61. His most well-known song was “Joy to the World”, a hit for Three Dog Night. His mother, Mae Boren Axton wrote the Elvis Presley hit, “Heartbreak Hotel”.
- In 2007, 1,730 guitarists in northeastern India made a bid to break a world record by all playing Bob Dylan’s “Knocking On Heaven’s Door”.
- In 2011, a coroner’s report said Amy Winehouse’s death was the result of “misadventure”. Her blood alcohol level was five times the legal limit.
- In 2019, Paul Barrere from Little Feat died at the age of 71.
Born this day …
- In 1911, gospel singer Mahalia Jackson – possibly the world’s most influential gospel singer who recorded over 30 albums
- In 1936, Al Casey, guitarist with the LA session band, the Wrecking Crew who played on hits by dozens of artists in the 1950s, 60s, and 70s.
- In 1946, Keith Hopwood from Herman’s Hermits
- In 1951, musician/singer/songwriter Bootsy Collins who played in James Brown’s band, Parliament, Funkadelic and Bootsy’s Rubber Band
- In 1953, Keith Strickland from the B-52s
- In 1963, Natalie Merchant, singer songwriter for 10,000 Maniacs and later as a solo artist
- In 1967, country music star from Australia, Keith Urban
https://www.thisdayinmusic.com/search/?keyword=&date=26&month=10
Other celebrity anniversaries today …
- Former “Wheel of Fortune” host, Pat Sajak is 80
- Hillary Clinton is 79
- James Pickens Jr. from TV’s Grey’s Anatomy is 74
- Rita Wilson is 70
- Dylan McDermott is 65
- Cary Elwes from “The Princess Bride” is 64
- Seth MacFarlane from TV’s “Family Guy”, “The Cleveland Show” and “American Dad!” is 53
- Olympic figure skater Sasha Cohen is 42
- Among those who’ve passed, actor Bob Hoskins was born in 1942
- Jackie Coogan, best remembered as Uncle Fester in TV’s “The Addams Family” was born in 1914
https://www.famousbirthdays.com/october26.html
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WEATHER
Pala Weather – Me she miyaxwe tamit? Sunny with a high of 83 and winds gusting up to 20 miles an hour this afternoon … 80 tomorrow … patchy morning low clouds and fog clearing to sunny and 78 Wednesday … 75 Thursday … mostly sunny and 73 with a slight chance of rain Friday … 71 with continued slight chance of rain Saturday … 69 with rain likely Sunday … overnight lows, 52 tonight … 50 tomorrow and Wednesday night … 53 Thursday night … 51 Friday and Saturday night
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