Pala Today News – 10/28/26
Written by John Fox on October 28, 2026
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LOCAL AND REGIONAL NEWS
Homicide investigators are asking for public help to identify a woman’s remains discovered last week in Anza. The discovery was in the area of Bautista Canyon Road and Willis Road the afternoon of October 23. The adult woman was wearing a red shirt and purple pants. Investigators are asking if anyone fitting the description went missing since about October 9 – especially in the Hemet and Anza areas. Lead investigator is Dan DiMaggio at 951 955 2777. https://patch.com/california/temecula/womans-body-found-anza-authorities-seek-publics-help-identifying-her
Acting on an executive order from Mayor Todd Gloria, the San Diego City Council yesterday unanimously approved an ordinance to place a 45-day moratorium on the development of new data centers within the city. The council has the power to extend the suspension for another 10 months and 15 days. The city of Poway also currently prohibits new data centers and Escondido extended an active moratorium in that city through August 2027. The County is working through research phases to evaluate rules for data centers in unincorporated areas. The San Diego city moratorium will not affect plans by Manchester Financial Group for a data center on Naval Base Point Loma’s Old Town Campus because that’s federal property and outside of local jurisdiction. https://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/2026/10/27/san-diego-city-council-passes-a-temporary-moratorium-on-data-centers/
A Vista jury convicted Jose Ulices Luna of second-degree murder and other charges related to the July 2024 shooting that killed 19-year old Antonio Junior Calderon Mendiola and wounded three other teens near Civic Center Drive in Vista. Mendiola died at the hospital. Now-22-year old Luna was arrested about a month after the shooting after leading police on a chase in a stolen vehicle. He’d been held on bail ever since. Sentencing will be February 8. https://thecoastnews.com/suspect-in-fatal-vista-carjacking-convicted-of-murder/
Archaeology Day, celebrating the heritage of Native Americans in the Anza-Borrego desert is coming up November 7. There’ll be a day full of guided tours, art demonstrations, educational displays and storytelling at the Anza Borrego Desert State Park Visitor Center at 200 Palm Canyon Drive and nearby Begole Archaeology Research Center, which is normally not open to the public. The day begins with Cahuilla and Kumeyaay birdsingers at 9:15a. Preregistration is required for tours. Here’s the link. https://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/2026/10/27/archaeology-day-celebrates-heritage-of-native-americans-who-lived-in-the-anza-borrego-desert/
Pala will have two more really nice days before a storm begins to move in Thursday night. Rain likely Saturday night and Sunday. The full forecast is coming up. (below)
SPORTS
In Major League Baseball – The Milwaukee Brewers win streak was broken – probably by their own fielding errors. In a four-hour 12-inning game, Tampa managed its first win of the series 4-3. Just three outs from winning the series, Milwaukee manager Pat Murphy pulled left-hander Aaron Ashby who’d retired all seven batters he faced and broke the record for scoreless innings by a reliever in a single postseason. Two pitching changes and a throwing error later, reliever Shane Drohan loaded the bases and pinch hitter Ben Williamson drove home the winning run. Game 5 is tonight at 5p on Fox. If needed, Game 6 will be Friday in Milwaukee. No team has ever come back from being down three games to none to win a World Series. Only the Red Sox have done it to win a pennant series.
Without marquee teams playing this year, ratings for World Series broadcasts were expected to be down this year. But, so far, they’ve at least exceeded expectations. The audience for the first two games was down only 6% compared with last year’s series between the Dodgers and Blue Jays. But they’ve still been the most-watched shows in their time slots with an average per game of 11.05m viewers. That’s 20% more than two years ago with the series between the Texas Rangers and Arizona Diamondbacks. This proves that Milwaukee has a steady fan base in the Midwest that’s grown over the past several strong seasons for the team. https://www.espn.com/mlb/story/_/id/50302397/world-series-ratings-6-first-2-games-rays-brewers
In the NFL –Week 8 begins tomorrow with Carolina at Green Bay.
In college football – Miami is still #1, but everyone else has a new place on the AP Top 25 this week. BYU fell six places to #8 after an upset loss Saturday. Ohio State, Georgia and Indiana are the new #2, 3 and 4. Notre Dame dropped one place to #5. Texas vaulted up 8 places to #11. Iowa and USC dropped out of the Top 25.
In the NBA – Yesterday’s winners were New York, San Antonio, Boston over Brooklyn 125-124 in overtime, and the visiting Trail Blazers over the Lakers 136-129. Twelve games tonight including the Clippers hosting the Lakers.
In college basketball – The season begins Sunday with Notre Dame vs. Villanova in Rome, Italy.
In the WNBA finals – Game 6 of the WNBA championship series will be tomorrow in Atlanta at 9:30a our time. Golden State leads the series three games to two.
In the NHL – Yesterday’s winners were Columbus, Carolina, Chicago over the Kings 2-1, Montreal, New Jersey, Florida, Minnesota, Vegas, Buffalo, the New York Islanders, and Vancouver over the Ducks 6-5 in overtime after Anaheim blew a three goal lead.
In Major League Soccer – San Diego FC is at Vancouver tonight. They’ll need a win if they want to make the playoffs.
In women’s soccer – The San Diego Wave play their final game of the regular season at Bay City this Saturday. https://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/2026/10/25/wave-frustrated-after-playing-to-a-tie-in-final-regular-season-home-game-of-2026/
Local high school sports
Bonsall – girls’ varsity volleyball at Warner Springs at 6p
Great Oak – girls’ golf hosting Individual Regionals all day; JV and freshman football at Corona at 4:15p
Fallbrook – no schedule published
Valley Center – girls’ tennis hosting El Camino at 2:30p; girls’ volleyball hosting Horizon Prep at 6p; field hockey hosting Chaparral at 6:30p
BUSINE$$
As of midday trading on Wall Street, stocks were up. The Dow gained a quarter percent. The S&P 500 rose two tenths. And the Nasdaq was up a small fraction. Gold fell $20.10 on the Comex to $4,054.50 an ounce. West Texas Intermediate Crude oil futures rose $3.20 to $103.10 a barrel.
The Federal Reserve announced today that it will keep rates in the 3.75% to 4% range.
Shares in Wendy’s jumped 15% at today’s opening bell in response to noted investor Nelson Peltz and several partners making an offer to buy the fast food chain for $7.35 per share. That’s 19% more than yesterday’s closing price. Shares in Wendy’s are down 26% so far this year. Founded by Dave Thomas in 1969, the company went public in 1976, becoming competitive with McDonald’s and Burger King. With expansion of In-N-Out, Five Guys and others, Wendy’s share of the market has declined. Wendy’s had 5,969 U.S. restaurants and 1,428 in 38 other countries as of the end of last year. Its market share has declined from 11.5% in 2019 to 10.4% last year and the company has said it will close 358 underperforming locations this year. https://apnews.com/article/wendys-peltz-trian-buyout-8f9ab7443eee801608c8058e4a77e862
Ford Motor Company will announce its third quarter earnings after the market closes today. Economists are expecting revenue to be down 2% compared with one year ago and an 11% decrease in adjusted earnings per share to 40 cents. https://www.cnbc.com/2026/10/28/ford-motor-f-earnings-q3-2026.html
San Diego biotech company, Artiva Biotherapeutics is laying off almost all of its workforce and cancelling its lead immunotherapy treatment for rheumatoid arthritis after it failed its Phase 2 trial and two patients involved in trials died. Neither death appeared to be related to the trial of AlloNK. Early results were promising, but the long-term durability did not meet the threshold for continued development. This comes just five months after the company raided about $300m from investors. https://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/2026/10/27/san-diego-biotech-lays-off-nearly-all-its-staff-after-drug-trial-failure-and-2-patient-deaths/
The cost of flying is soaring higher than the planes you’re riding in. The nation’s largest budget carrier, Frontier Airlines reported a 71% increase in fares for the third quarter. Yet it still lost money due to the high cost of fuel. In spite of rising fares, customers kept booking. Passenger count was up 18% to 9.8m in the third quarter. That’s up 1.5m from one year ago. Other airlines are reporting similar trends. https://www.cnbc.com/2026/10/28/frontier-airlines-airfare-plane-tickets.html
LIFESTYLE / GREEN LIVING
Influential labor leader Dolores Huerta has died at the age of 96. She was a noted civil rights leader and co-founder of United Farmworkers. Family reports the cause of death was cancer.
The New York Times published some interesting statistics today in an article titled “A.I. by the Numbers”. With Anthropic poised to go public in the hopes of raising the company’s valuation to as much as $2 trillion:
- Workers who reported using AI as part of their jobs in 2023: 30%
- Workers who reported using AI as part of their jobs in 2025: 70%
- Estimated number of American workers exposed to A.I. who may need to transition to new jobs: 11 million
- Slowdown since 2023 in real wage growth for jobs highly exposed to A.I., compared with ones that are not: 7 percent
- Amount of money Amazon, Google, Microsoft and Meta are projected to spend on A.I. infrastructure this year: $700 billion
- Amount of debt taken on by hyperscalers, chipmakers, neoclouds and other companies providing data centers and electricity for the A.I. build out: at least $3 trillion
- Share of projected S&P 500 earnings gains for this year driven directly by tech companies spending heavily on A.I.: two-thirds
- Share of the world’s electricity that data centers currently consume: 5 percent
- Share of the world’s electricity generated by Germany: also 5 percent
- Amount of money that campaigns and political action groups have spent on ads generated by A.I. for the U.S. midterm elections: $137 million
- Share of those campaign ads that were produced by Republican campaigns or Republican-aligned political action committees: more than 80 percent
- Number of federal laws passed to regulate the development of A.I. technology: 0
On this day in music history – October 28,
- 1957, Elvis Presley was told by LAPD after his show that night at the Pan Pacific Auditorium that he was not allowed to wiggle his hips onstage. At the following night’s concert, the Vice Squad filmed the entire show to study his performance.
- In 1958, Buddy Holly appeared on American Bandstand to lip sync “It’s So Easy” and “Heartbeat”. It was Holly’s last major TV appearance before his untimely death.
- In 1961, a music fan entered Liverpool’s NEMS Record store looking to buy a Beatles record that had been released in Germany. Shop manager Brian Epstein promised to investigate the record and group, which he’d never heard of.
- In 1964, it was the first of two nights billed as the “TAMI Show” at the Santa Monica Civic Auditorium with Smokey Robinson & The Miracles, The Beach Boys, Chuck Berry, Marvin Gaye, The Supremes, and The Rolling Stones.
- In 1967, “Diana Ross and The Supremes Greatest Hits” began the first of five weeks at #1 on the Billboard Hot 200 albums chart. Although Florence Ballard was pictured on the cover, she’d been fired and replaced by Cindy Birdsong before the album was released.
- In 1972, Stevie Wonder released his 15th album, “Talking Book”. The first track, “You Are the Sunshine of My Life” hit #1 and earned him his first Grammy. It also featured Jeff Beck playing guitar on the track “Superstition”.
- In 1978, a live action movie just in time for Halloween was shown on NBC television. “KISS Meets the Phantom of the Park” featured the four group members dealing with a mad scientist who went crazy in an amusement park. KISS had just released their four individual solo albums.
- On the same day, Nick Gilder was at #1 with “Hot Child in the City”.
- In 1989, Janet Jackson began the first of four weeks at #1 on the album chart with “Rhythm Nation”. It was one of only three albums ever to produce seven top ten hits. The others were brother Michael’s “Thriller” and Bruce Springsteen’s “Born in the USA”.
- In 1997, drummer Bill Berry announced he was leaving R.E.M. to become a farmer
- In 2007, country music star Porter Wagner died in Nashville at the age of 80. He’d had a TV show for 21 years and helped launch the career of Dolly Parton.
- In 2013, New Zealand singer Lorde topped the charts with her debut single, “Royals”. She was 16 at the time and had been under contract to Universal Records since age 13.
Born on this day …
- In 1936, Charlie Daniels
- In 1940, Wayne Fontana from the group, The Mindbenders who had chart topping hits with “Game of Love” and “Groovy Kind of Love” in 1965 and 66.
- In 1948, Telma Hopkins from Tony Orlando’s backing group, Dawn.
https://www.thisdayinmusic.com/search/?keyword=&date=28&month=10
Other celebrity anniversaries today …
- Actress Daphne Zuniga is 64
- Actress Jamie Gertz is 61
- Conan O’Brien’s talk show sidekick, Andy Richter is 60
- Among those who’ve passed, actress and comedienne Dody Goodman from TV’s “Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman” and “Diff’rent Strokes” was born this day in 1914.
http://www.davesfunstuff.com/a-mb/2080-date1028.htm
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WEATHER
Pala Weather – Me she miyaxwe tamit? Mostly sunny with a high of 78 today … increasing clouds with a high of 77 tomorrow … 20% chance of showers Thursday night into Friday morning, then mostly cloudy and 74 Friday afternoon … mostly cloudy and 73 Saturday … up to a half inch of rain likely Saturday night and Sunday when it will be mostly cloudy and 72 … mostly sunny and 77 Monday … 79 Tuesday … overnight lows, 51 tonight … 54 tomorrow night … 51 Friday night … 54 Saturday night … about 52 Sunday and Monday night
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