Pala Today News – 12/1/25
Written by John Fox on December 1, 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
There were a pair of traffic accidents on Highway 76 yesterday. Just before 2a, a two-vehicle wreck near East Vista Way knocked down a light pole blocking the eastbound lanes. One driver was taken into custody on suspicion of DUI. https://www.villagenews.com/story/2025/11/27/news/crash-knocks-down-pole-blocks-lanes-on-sr-76-woman-arrested-on-suspicion-of-dui/80561.html
At about the same time, a Toyota pickup rolled over, landing on its roof on Camino del Rey near Highway 76. No one was seriously injured and a man was arrested on suspicion of driving under the influence. https://www.villagenews.com/story/2025/11/27/news/no-injuries-in-camino-del-rey-rollover-man-arrested-on-suspicion-of-dui/80562.html
There was yet another DUI arrest in connection with a vehicle that went off Highway 76 at Rice Canyon Road just before 11p Saturday. No details on injuries and apparently there were no other vehicles involved. https://www.villagenews.com/story/2025/11/27/news/driver-arrested-on-suspicion-of-dui-after-vehicle-plunges-down-embankment-on-sr-76/80560.html
Escondido Police made an arrest Saturday in connection with the hit-and-run death of an 11-year old boy on East Washington Avenue in that city last week. 44-year old Hector Baldera Amador was charged with felony hit-and-run for the death of Aiden Antonio Torres De Paz, who was chasing a soccer ball in front of his house just after 5p on November 26. The boy later died a Rady Children’s Hospital. https://www.newsbreak.com/abc-10-news-kgtv-563645/4372518513140-escondido-police-arrest-man-for-hit-and-run-of-11-year-old-boy
Three immigrants detained multiple times by Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents in San Diego County have filed a proposed class action lawsuit accusing the Department of Homeland Security of violation of due process rights. The plaintiffs say they were released by Homeland Security after it was determined they were not flight risks or a danger to the community, but then detained again when appearing for “check-in” appointments at downtown San Diego ICE offices. An attorney for the case says “We will not stand by as the administration continues to lay arrest traps for immigrants doing exactly what the government has asked of them …”. https://thecoastnews.com/lawsuit-alleges-ice-detaining-immigrants-without-due-process-in-san-diego-county/
Oceanside Police are looking for 83-year old Manuel Rico, who suffers from memory loss and was last seen yesterday in Escondido. He’s described as 5 foot 8, Hispanic, weighing around 150 pounds. He was wearing a black cap, a black and yellow long-sleeved shirt, yellow pants and brown shoes. He is very familiar with local public transportation and was often seen at Oceanside Transit Center. Anyone with information should call Oceanside PD. 760 435 4900. https://www.newsbreak.com/fox-5-san-diego-1589916/4373937455540-missing-oceanside-police-looking-for-83-year-old-man-with-memory-issues
San Diego Sheriff’s Search and Rescue conducted a full-scale search of the Santa Margarita River area of De Luz on Saturday following the discovery last week of clothing that could belong to a missing or deceased person. About 50 people took part in the search which included volunteers on foot with dogs, others on horseback, and drones sweeping the area. Nothing was found. https://www.villagenews.com/story/2025/11/27/news/massive-search-for-missing-person-conducted-in-santa-margarita-river-valley/80522.html
Several hundred SDG&E customers in the San Luis Rey / Ocean Hills part of Oceanside lost power this morning just after 8a. It’s expected to be restored by 1:30p this afternoon. https://www.sdge.com/residential/customer-service/outage-center/outage-map
Pala will have beautiful fall weather with high temperatures in the low 70s for the next week. 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 – Bo Nix had a league-high 3231 yards passing in yesterday’s 27-26 overtime win by Denver over the Commanders in Washington DC. The Chargers topped the visiting Raiders 31-14. In that game, Los Angeles quarterback Justin Herbert suffered a break in his left hand that will require surgery today. He still expects to play in the Chargers next game a week from today against Philadelphia. Carolina edged the visiting Rams 31-28. Other winners yesterday included San Francisco, Jacksonville, Houston, Miami, Tampa Bay, Seattle, Buffalo and the Jets. On Thanksgiving, the winners were Green Bay, Dallas, and Cincinnati. Chicago topped the Eagles in Philadelphia 24-15 Friday. Week 13 wraps up tonight with New England hosting the Giants at 5p on ESPN. https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/47158915/justin-herbert-suffers-break-left-hand-chargers-win
In college football – A major upset on Friday with #16 Texas surprising #3 Texas A&M 27-17. #25 Arizona topped #20 Arizona State 23-7. San Diego State fell to New Mexico 23-17 in double overtime. No surprises among top-ranked teams on Saturday. #17 USC beat unranked UCLA 29-10.
In the NBA – Yesterday’s winners were Houston, Boston, New York, Atlanta, Oklahoma City, Minnesota, Memphis, and the Lakers over the visiting Saints 133-121. The Lakers, with their seventh straight win are still trying to catch up to first-place Oklahoma City, who’ve now won 12 in a row and only lost one game all season. The Clippers are 14 ½ games off the pace in 13th place. Detroit leads the East with a 16 and 4 record, 2 ½ games ahead of both New York and Toronto. https://www.espn.com/nba/standings
In college basketball – Yesterday, Long Beach State beat USD 76-72. Arizona lifted itself two places to #2 with a 98-61 win Saturday against Norfolk State.
In hockey – The Ducks fell to Chicago 5-3 yesterday. Other winners were Washington, Carolina, and Dallas. The Kings edged the Canucks in Vancouver 2-1 in overtime Saturday.
In the minors – The San Diego Gulls finished November with a 5-3 win at Tucson Wednesday and a 5-0 loss at home against Coachella Valley Friday. Their next game is Friday hosting Texas.
In Major League Baseball – Former Padres pitcher, free-agent Dylan Cease agreed to a 7-year $210m deal with Toronto last Wednesday. Cease has made at least 32 starts his past five seasons. He’s coming off a career-best strikeout rate season, though his win-loss record and ERA suffered a bit last season. Since becoming a starting pitcher, he’s led the majors in strikeouts, but also in walks and wild pitches. The 30-year old declined the Padres’ $22m qualifying offer last month. Because he signed with someone else, the Padres will get an extra draft pick after the fourth round. https://www.espn.com/mlb/story/_/id/47112453/sources-blue-jays-dylan-cease-reach-7-year-210m-deal
The Angels are in talks with third baseman Anthony Rendon to buy out the final year of his contract. He’s owed $38m in 2026. The 35-year old spent all of last season recovering from hip surgery. He’s expected to retire. https://www.espn.com/mlb/story/_/id/47110621/source-angels-talks-buy-final-year-anthony-rendon-deal
In Major League Soccer – San Diego FC fell 3-1 to the visiting Vancouver Whitecaps in the semi-finals Saturday at Snapdragon Stadium. That ends San Diego’s debut season. Vancouver will go on to meet the winner of the other semi-final Inter Miami this Saturday in Ft. Lauderdale.
In lacrosse – The San Diego Seals opened the season with a 16-13 win against the Black Bears in Ottawa. Their next game is the home opener Sunday, December 14 hosting Rochester.
In local high school sports:
Bonsall – no scheduled games today
Great Oak – boys’ soccer at Linfield Christian at 4:30p; boys’ JV basketball hosting a Temescal Canyon Tournament game; freshmen and varsity away at tournaments.
Fallbrook – boys’ basketball hosting St. Jones Academy at 5:30p; girls’ basketball at Chaparral at 5:30p
Valley Center – boys’ basketball hosting Army-Navy at 5:30p
BUSINE$$
As of midday trading on Wall Street, stocks were down. The Dow fell a half percent. The S&P 500 and Nasdaq were each down a quarter percent. Gold gained $8 on the Comex, trading at $4,262.90 an ounce. West Texas Intermediate Crude oil futures were up 73 cents to $59.28 a barrel.
After a record-setting Black Friday, today is Cyber Monday, the biggest online shopping day of the year. Initial sales figures will make headlines tomorrow along with earnings reports this week from major retailers including American Eagle, Dollar Tree, Five Below, Macy’s, Kroger, Ulta and Dollar General. www.morningbrew.com
Consumer Reports and other consumer advocates are warning consumers to watch out for marketing tactics that promise savings but could end up costing you. One is the sense of urgency. Retailers don’t want you to think too hard about the purchase. So, they use terms like “flash deal” or put a short time limit on the deal. It plays on your fear of missing out. Another is naming the original price. It makes you fixate on what the item is supposedly worth, making the sale price even more attractive. But in many cases, that never was the original price, or at least it hasn’t been for a long time. That tactic is related to inflating the base price, then offering a steep discount – sometimes half or more. Do a price comparison to see what this retailer and others have actually charged over time. You may find the current sale is the same or little-changed from normal pricing. Finally, retailers try to build a fantasy in your mind, like a picture-perfect holiday dinner with guests all connecting and nobody fighting. Hey, if their product actually did all that, it would be worth whatever they want to charge. https://www.npr.org/2025/11/26/nx-s1-5604808/4-marketing-tricks-to-not-fall-for-this-holiday-season
Just weeks after President Trump signed deals with Eli Lilly and Novo Nordisk to make their GLP-1 weight loss drugs more affordable, Eli Lilly has cut the price of its blockbuster drug Zepbound on its direct-to-consumer website by about 18%, or $50 per single dose vial. https://www.cnbc.com/2025/12/01/eli-lilly-prices-zepbound-weight-loss-drug-vials.html
LIFESTYLE / GREEN LIVING
Over the weekend at the movies, “Zootopia 2” dominated ticket sales. With $96.8m, it fell a little short of last week’s performance by “Wicked: For Good” which dropped to second place with $62.8m this weekend. But the total for this weekend’s top ten films slightly exceeded the Friday through Sunday total for last weekend – making it one of the best this year. And the full holiday weekend was exceeded only by the Memorial Day weekend. “Now You See Me: Now You Don’t” was 3rd with $7m, followed by “Predator: Badlands”, “The Running Man” and the debut of “Eternity” with $3.1m on just 1,300 screens. “Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery” opened on just 600 screens with a low $600k. https://www.boxofficemojo.com/weekend/2025W48/
With the nation’s air transportation still recovering from the government shutdown, Mother Nature took a hand in Thanksgiving holiday travel. FlightAware reported over 12k delays and almost 1k flight cancellations in or out of the U.S. yesterday due to a major winter storm over the Midwest, the western Great Lakes, and parts of the East Coast. Airlines for America had predicted a record-breaking 31m passengers would be flying for the Thanksgiving holiday. www.morningbrew.com
Are you living in poverty, or aren’t you? The Department of Health and Human Services defines the US poverty line as $32,150 for a family of four. The line was established as a metric in 1965 under President Lyndon Johnson’s “War on Poverty”. It originally measured the cost of feeding a household for a year and multiplied it by three. About 10% of American households currently fit the HHS definition of impoverished. But a recent Harris poll found that one third of six-figure earners feel financially stretched. That’s why chief strategist and portfolio manager for Simplify Asset Management, Michael Green published a report last week that has since gone viral, saying that the real poverty line is $136,500 annual household income. Believe it or not, food is relatively cheaper than it was 60 years ago, but other essential costs like healthcare and housing have increased dramatically, leading to Green’s claim of household poverty even at well over $100k income. He says less than that limits full participation in the economy. The median household income for US families with at least two children was $109,300 last year. www.morningbrew.com
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration had predicted above-normal hurricane activity in the U.S. for 2025. Between June and the official end of the season yesterday, the Atlantic basin produced 13 named storms and five hurricanes. But for the first time in ten years, none of them made landfall in the U.S. Other countries weren’t so lucky. Hurricane Melissa hit Jamaica as a Category 5 in October and after weakening a little, rolled over Cuba. Melissa was one of the top three strongest hurricanes ever to make landfall in the Atlantic basin. www.morningbrew.com
On this day in music history – December 1,
- 1957, Buddy Holly and the Crickets appeared on “The Ed Sullivan Show” performing “That’ll Be the Day” and “Peggy Sue”. Sam Cooke appeared on the same episode, singing “You Send Me”.
- In 1958, The Teddy Bears were at #1 with “To Know Him is to Love Him”.
- In 1964, The Who played the first of 22 consecutive nights at The Marquee Club in London for which they were paid less than $100 per night. But playing the Marquee was an important early step for up and coming 60s acts including Jimi Hendrix, David Bowie, Cream, Manfred Mann, The Nice, Yes, Pink Floyd, Jethro Tull and others who all played there before getting recording contracts.
- In 1967, The Jimi Hendrix Experience released their second album, “Axis: Bold as Love”. Hendrix was disappointed with the cover art which had an East Indian theme. He said it would have been more appropriate had it highlighted his American Indian heritage.
- That same night Hendrix opened his set at Central Hall in Chatham with the title track from The Beatles’ “Sgt Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band”. Also on the bill that night, Pink Floyd, The Move and three others
- In 1973, The Carpenters were on top of the singles chart with “Top of the World”, the second of their three #1 singles. Lynn Anderson had been at #2 on the country singles chart earlier that summer with her version of the song.
- In 1983, Geffen Records sued Neil Young because his new music for the label was “not commercial in nature and musically uncharacteristic of his previous albums”. His first album for Geffen was “Everybody’s Rockin’” featuring just 25 minutes of rockabilly songs, some of them cover versions. It was Young’s shortest album ever.
- In 1987 the U.S. Supreme Court denied a Kentucky teacher’s appeal of her firing for showing Pink Floyd’s film “The Wall” to her class. The court decided that the film was not suitable for minors due to bad language and sexual content.
- In 1989, Sly Stone was sentence to 55 days in jail after pleading guilty to driving under the influence of cocaine. Two weeks later he also pled guilty to possession and was sentenced to 9 to 14 months in rehab.
- In 1990, Vanilla Ice was at #1 with “Ice Ice Baby”, originally the B-side to his version of “Play That Funky Music”.
- In 1997, Kenny G set a new world record for holding a note on his saxophone for 45 minutes and 47 seconds though a technique known as circular breathing.
- In 2012, Shakira was sued for $100m by a former boyfriend who acted as her business manager for six years. Antonio de la Rua claimed his business plan led the singer to global superstardom and wanted his share of past and future partnership profits.
Born on this day …
- In 1934, soul singer Billy Paul who had the 1972 #1 hit “Me and Mrs. Jones”
- In 1936, Lou Rawls who released more than 60 albums with total sales of more than 40m. His biggest hit was the #2 1972 hit “You’ll Never Find Another Love Like Mine”.
- In 1944, Bette Midler, Blue Oyster Cult guitarist and singer Eric Boom, and Doors drummer John Densmore.
- In 1946, Gilbert O’Sullivan who had a #1 hit in 1972 with “Alone Again Naturally”
- In 1951, Jaco Pastorius, bass player with Weather Report
- In 1963, Sam Reid from Glass Tiger
- In 1977, Brad Delson from Linkin Park
Other celebrity anniversaries today …
- Actress Charlene Tilton who played Lucy Ewing on TV’s “Dallas” is 67
- Comedienne Sarah Silverman is 55
- Among those who’ve passed, actor and comedian Dick Shawn was born in 1923
- Richard Pryor was born this day in 1940
http://www.davesfunstuff.com/a-mb/2080-date1201.htm
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Pala seniors’ lunch menu for tomorrow (12/2/25) – stuffed bell peppers, vegetables, roll and dessert
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WEATHER
Pala Weather – sunny with a high of 74 this afternoon … mostly sunny and 72 tomorrow … cloudy in the morning, clearing to sunny and 68 Wednesday afternoon … sunny and 73 Thursday and Friday … 70 Saturday … 73 Sunday … overnight lows, 43 tonight and tomorrow night … about 41 Wednesday and Thursday night … about 44 Friday and Saturday 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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SHOWS
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RESOURCES
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