Pala Today News – 11/20/25
Written by John Fox on November 20, 2025
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LOCAL AND REGIONAL NEWS
Two suspects have been arrested in connection with more than a dozen commercial storage unit burglaries in North County resulting in millions of dollars of property loss including weapons, cash and valuable collectibles. 43-year old Kyle John Henely and 40-year old Veronica Merlo are alleged to have committed six break-ins in Escondido, five in Valley Center and two in Oceanside. Multiple search warrants resulted in the discovery of many of the stolen items. https://www.10news.com/news/local-news/2-suspect-arrested-in-north-county-multimillion-dollar-storage-unit-burglary-series
An off-duty Border Patrol agent has been arrested after pointing a gun at a teenager in a confrontation on Daybrook Terrace in Temecula around 10p November 10. Surveillance shows the teen, a Mexican-American U.S. citizen dropping off a friend when he was confronted by 45-year old Gerardo Rodriguez, also from Temecula. The teen complied with all commands and was eventually released to his parents, who filed a complaint with the Riverside County Sheriff’s Department. Agent Rodriguez faces charges of assault with a deadly weapon, child endangerment, and assault by a public officer. https://www.nbclosangeles.com/news/local/off-duty-federal-agent-arrest-temecula/3805911/?amp=1
An accident at around 9a on Old Highway 395 at Rainbow Valley Boulevard affected freeway on and off ramps, slowing today’s late morning commute on adjacent I-15. https://patch.com/california/murrieta/i-15-crashes-slow-morning-traffic-temecula-through-temescal-canyon
A fire Tuesday evening in the 23000 block of Matador Way has displaced a Murrieta couple. They escaped the flames safely. A neighbor rescued their dog and the family cat was discovered safe after crews doused the fire. https://patch.com/california/murrieta/couple-flee-pets-rescued-burning-murrieta-home
Thanks to funding from the San Diego Council on Literacy, the Scripps Howard Fund, and North Island Credit Union, ABC 10News brought Storytime to Vivian Banks Charter School recently. Every student at the Pala reservation school got to pick six free books. 10News anchor Jared Aaron spent the morning reading to students. https://www.10news.com/community/storytime/storytime-helps-students-in-pala-express-their-spirit-of-generosity-and-gratitude
Pala can expect up to another inch and a quarter of rain beginning this afternoon and lasting through Saturday from the last of four storms over the past week. There’s a Winter Storm Warning from the National Weather Service for the San Bernardino Mountains with the snow level at around 6k feet. Our local mountains might or might not see any snow. If they do, there won’t be any accumulation. Next week, we’ll get back to some beautiful fall weather. 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.
SPORTS
In the NFL – Week 12 begins tonight with Buffalo at Houston on Prime Video at 5p.
In college football – Week 13 Top 25 action begins Saturday at 9a with #1 Ohio State hosting Rutgers and #8 Oklahoma hosting #22 Missouri on ABC. #15 USC is at #7 Oregon at 12:30p on CBS. At 7:30, UCLA hosts Washington on NBC and San Diego State hosts San Jose State on FS1.
In the NBA – Nine games last night. The winners were Houston, Indiana, Toronto, Miami, Minnesota, Denver, Oklahoma City, Chicago and New York. Four games tonight including the Clippers at Orlando.
In college basketball – #3 UConn lost to visiting #4 Arizona 71-67. #11 Alabama upset #8 Illinois 90-86.
There’s a new #1 in the AP Top 25 basketball poll. Purdue trades places with former #1 Houston
In hockey – Among last night’s four games, Anaheim beat the visiting Bruins 4-3. It was Washington 7-4 over Edmonton, Calgary 6-2 over Buffalo, and Minnesota won a shootout over the visiting Hurricanes 4-3. Carolina still leads the Metropolitan Division with 28 points. Colorado leads all divisions with 31. Anaheim and Dallas are tied for third in the league at 27. Anaheim leads the Pacific Division by three points over Vegas. Detroit is fourth in the league and leading the Atlantic Division with 25 points. https://www.espn.com/nhl/standings
In the minors – Last night, the San Diego Gulls lost to San Jose 5-4 in overtime at Pechanga Arena. Their next game is tomorrow at Coachella.
In Major League Baseball – The league has announced new media rights deals with NBC, ESPN and Netflix. ESPN will sell and distribute MLB.TV and a new 30-game midweek package. MLB will get about half as much revenue as it used to from ESPN for Sunday Night Baseball, which will now be carried by NBC next year through 2028. Netflix will be the new home for the next three Home Run Derbies. https://www.cnbc.com/2025/11/19/mlb-media-rights-deals-nbc-espn-netflix.html
In Major League Soccer – The conference semifinals begin this Saturday with LAFC at Vancouver. San Diego hosts Minnesota on Monday.
In golf – The RSM Classic teed off today at Saint Simons Island, Georgia. With half the field still on the course, Davis Thompson and Rico Hoey were tied for the lead into the clubhouse at 10 under-par. Maverick McNealy is the defending champion. https://www.espn.com/golf/leaderboard
In local high school sports:
Bonsall – no scheduled games today
Great Oak – girls’ soccer hosting La Sierra at 3:30p; boys’ JV basketball hosting the Bob Goodbody Tournament today at 4:30p and tomorrow at 3p; girls’ water polo hosting Beaumont at 5p; boys’ varsity basketball at Ayala at 8p
Fallbrook – no schedule published
Valley Center – varsity boys’ basketball at Valhalla at 5:30p
BUSINE$$
As of midday trading on Wall Street, stocks were down after an opening bell surge led by Walmart, IBM and Nvidia. The Dow fell 4 tenths of a percent. The S&P 500 was off by 6 tenths. And the Nasdaq was down almost 9 tenths. Gold plunged another $37.40 on the Comex, trading at $4,045.40 an ounce. West Texas Intermediate Crude oil futures were down 28 cents at $59.16 a barrel.
Nvidia reported another quarter of soaring profits. The chipmaker’s quarterly report caused its stock to gain as much as 5% in early trading. But that fizzled as it and other stocks in the Dow Jones Industrial Average declined over AI stock valuation worries and the increasing likelihood that the Fed won’t lower interest rates next month. https://www.cnbc.com/2025/11/19/stock-market-today-live-updates.html
Today’s jobs report from the Labor Department shows the economy added an unexpectedly high 119k jobs in September with the unemployment rate remaining at 4.3%. But the August gain of 22k jobs was revised to a loss of 4k, and July’s gains were lowered by 7k. Despite September’s strong numbers, this year is still on pace for the weakest annual employment growth since the pandemic and second-weakest since the Great Recession. https://www.cnn.com/2025/11/20/economy/us-jobs-report-september-final
U.S. imports fell by about 5% in August, mainly due to tariffs. That helped cut the U.S. trade deficit by nearly 24% in August. But the overall trade deficit is still up 25% year-to-date to $713.6b. Voter dissatisfaction with the rising cost of living caused the President to drop added tariffs on many food staples last week. The August trade data and September unemployment numbers are only now becoming available because of the 43-day government shutdown. https://www.pbs.org/newshour/economy/u-s-trade-deficit-dropped-nearly-24-in-august-as-trumps-tariffs-reduce-imports
Former Treasury Secretary Larry Summers is stepping down from the board of OpenAI and going on leave from teaching at Harvard after documents released by Congress showed him corresponding with Jeffrey Epstein. https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-news/larry-summers-resigns-openai-board-jeffrey-epstein-emails-rcna244766
Home sales in Southern California are at a 3-year high as interest rates fall. Nationwide, existing home sales were up 1.7% in October compared with a year ago. The median price was up 2.1%. There had been some talk of a developing buyers’ market with a growing average age of listings since the interest rate average is now about 3 tenths of a percent lower than when those numbers were collected. But inventory is beginning to drop. And that’s why prices are still going up. https://www.cnbc.com/2025/11/20/october-existing-home-sales-supply.html
LIFESTYLE / GREEN LIVING
On your mark, get set, shop! Amazon’s Black Friday sale starts today.
Billionaire environmentalist Tom Steyer yesterday announced his candidacy to replace Gavin Newsom as governor of California. Newsom has already served the maximum number of terms allowed for the office. Steyer enters a crowded field of Democratic contenders. He’d previously attempted to run for President and joined an effort to impeach Donald Trump during his first administration. Steyer will run for governor with a focus on addressing California’s affordability problem. His platform includes lowering electric bills, building a million new homes in four years, making pre-school and community college free, and banning corporate political action committee money from state elections. Other Democratic candidates include: former Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa, former U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary Xavier Becerra, former Rep. Katie Porter, California State Superintendent of Public Instruction Tony Thurmond, California Democratic Party Vice Chair Betty Yee, and former California Assembly Majority Leader Ian Calderon. The two main Republican candidates are former Fox News commentator Steve Hilton and Riverside County Sheriff Chad Bianco. https://www.kcra.com/article/tom-steyer-2026-california-governor-campaign-race/69483967
FEMA’s acting chief, David Richardson resigned Monday after 6 months on the job. He said he’d agreed to be acting administrator during hurricane season, which ended November 1. Now he wants to return to private industry. During Richardson’s tenure, he’d been heavily criticized for slow response to catastrophic floods in Texas Hill Country that killed more than 130 people of July 4. He’ll be replaced by current FEMA chief of staff, Karen Evans beginning December 1. https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/politics-news/acting-fema-head-resigns-rcna244433
On this day in music history – November 20,
- 1955, Bo Diddley appeared on The Ed Sullivan Show. It had been requested that he perform his version of “Sixteen Tons”. But when he took to the live stage, instead he launched into his own hit song, “Bo Diddley” resulting in his being banned from future appearances on the show.
- In 1961, Bob Dylan began recording his debut album over two days at Columbia studios in New York City.
- In 1965, the Supremes hit #1 with their sixth chart-topping single, the Holland-Dozier-Holland written and produced song, “I Hear a Symphony”.
- Exactly one year later, the Supremes were again at #1, this time with “You Keep Me Hanging On”.
- In 1967, the LA-based psychedelic rock band Strawberry Alarm Clock were at #1 on the singles chart with “Incense and Peppermints”. The band disliked the song so much, they had a friend of the band, Greg Munford who was attending the recording session as a visitor sing the lead.
- In 1968, the Monkees movie, “Head” opened in six U.S. cities. Reviews were harsh and the movie bombed.
- In 1971, Isaac Hayes began the first of two weeks at #1 with “Theme from Shaft”. He won the Grammy for Best Original Film Score the following spring.
- In 1973, musical parody star Allan Sherman died of emphysema at the age of 48. Sherman was the Weird Al of his generation and had a #2 hit in 1963 with “Hello Muddah, Hello Fadduh”.
- In 1974, Keith Moon, drummer for The Who collapsed on stage after consuming a drink spiked with horse tranquilizer. 19-year old Scott Halpin from the audience replaced Moon for the final three numbers of the concert after Pete Townsend asked for a volunteer from the audience.
- In 1975, Paul Simon hosted Saturday Night Live where he performed with the week’s musical guest, George Harrison. Former bandmates Paul McCartney and John Lennon were together in New York watching the live show and briefly considered going to the studio to surprise George, but decided against it.
- In 1984, Michael Jackson got a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
- In 1995, The Beatles released “Anthology 1” with 60 tracks including the recently released single of a demo recorded by the late John Lennon 18 years earlier – “Free As a Bird”.
- In 2003, Michael Jackson flew to Santa Barbara to surrender to police on child molestation charges. He was freed on $3m bail.
- In 2015, Justin Bieber topped the British singles chart with “Sorry”. Eight tracks from his latest album were on the British chart at the time, breaking a record set in 1957 by Elvis Presley.
Born on this day …
- In 1941, Dr. John, the New Orleans-based singer who had a Top 10 hit in 1973 with “Right Place, Wrong Time”.
- In 1946, Duane Allman from the Allman Brothers
- In 1947, Joe Walsh from The James Gang and The Eagles
- In 1965, Mike D from the Beastie Boys
- In 1986, Jared Followill from Kings of Leon
Other celebrity anniversaries today …
- Actress Estelle Parsons from “Bonnie & Clyde” and TV’s “Roseanne” is 98
- Comedian, singer and variety show host Dick Smothers is 87
- Actor Richard Masur from movies “Risky Business” and “My Girl” is 77
- Comedian Joel McHale is 54
- Among those who’ve passed George Barris, creator of famous TV cars including the Munster Koach and the first Batmobile was born in 1925
- Actress, singer and comedienne Kay Ballard was born in 1925
- Actor and game show host Richard Dawson was born in 1932
- Actor, writer and comedian Bob Einstein was born in 1942
http://www.davesfunstuff.com/a-mb/2080-date1120.htm
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Pala seniors’ lunch menu for tomorrow (11/21) – Italian lemon chicken, mashed potatoes, vegetables and dessert
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WEATHER
Pala Weather – cloudy with a high of 62 and up to a quarter inch of rain 80% likely this afternoon … up to another ¾ of an inch tonight with possible wind gusts up to 25 miles an hour … mostly cloudy and 63 with up to another quarter inch of rain 60% likely tomorrow … a slight chance of rain Saturday morning, then partly sunny and 66 in the afternoon … sunny and 68 Sunday … 70 Monday … 71 Tuesday … 74 Wednesday … overnight lows, 45 tonight … 43 tomorrow through Sunday night … about 45 Monday and Tuesday night
FIRE PERMITS
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PALA
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