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Pala Today News – 12/8/25

Written by John Fox on December 8, 2025

by John Fox – 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 and worldwide online … click here to listen live. Listen on a smart speaker by asking it to “play KPRI”. Some portions of today’s newscast are only available in the live broadcast and not included in this transcript which is also available an hour or two after broadcast at www.RezRadio.FM . In any emergency, knowledge is power. Use our resources to leverage your family’s safety. Email 91.3@palatribe.com to subscribe to our daily M-F e-newsletter. Follow us at www.facebook.com/rezradio and www.twitter.com/rezradioFM . Additional resources at Palatribe.com

LOCAL AND REGIONAL NEWS

About 400 rolled bales of hay caught fire in a field on Old Milky Way in the San Pasqual Valley south of Escondido late Saturday night just before midnight. Multiple fire engine crews worked on the fire, which was still putting out heavy smoke by sunrise yesterday morning. There were no injuries and no structural damage.

A 14-year old was stabbed at an apartment on Alturas Road in Fallbrook yesterday evening around 6:45p. Suspects fled the scene before Sheriff’s deputies responded to the call of “assault with a deadly weapon”. The victim received non-life-threatening injuries. No one has been arrested yet as the investigation continues. https://www.villagenews.com/story/2025/12/04/news/14-year-old-male-transported-after-stabbing-in-apartment-complex/80620.html

A man died in Lake Perris yesterday after keeping his 7-year old son above water until rescuers arrived. It happened after their kayak capsized on the lake yesterday afternoon. https://www.pressenterprise.com/

Meetings will be held this Wednesday and Saturday from 10a to noon for residents of Pala living south of the San Luis Rey River about the planning for a sewer network there. The meetings will be at the Pala Admin building. Lunch and snacks will be provided. (Pala Environmental Department flyer)

There was a 3.1 magnitude earthquake about three miles south of San Clemente yesterday afternoon at 12:36p. It was lightly felt throughout North County. https://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/map/?currentFeatureId=ci41134895&extent=-7.1881,-137.02148&extent=66.68778,-52.91016

We’ll have sunny, warm weather in Pala with highs in the 80s all this 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 – The Rams demolished Arizona 45-17. Other winners yesterday included Seattle, Buffalo, Tennessee, Minnesota, Miami, New Orleans, Jacksonville, Pittsburgh, Denver, Green Bay and Houston. The Chargers host Philadelphia tonight at 5p on ABC. https://www.espn.com/nfl/schedule

In college football – #2 Indiana upset #1 Ohio State in the final game of the season Saturday. That puts Indiana in the #1 spot for the College Football Championship series. Ohio State drops to #2. The rest of the top nine remained the same as last week with Georgia at #3 and Texas Tech at #4. Miami moved up two places to #10.

36 bowl games have been scheduled in addition to the 11 games of the College Football Playoffs. The bowl season begins with the Cricket Bowl in Atlanta on the 13^th.

In the NBA – The Lakers topped the 76ers in Philadelphia yesterday 112-108 with LeBron James scoring a season-high 29 points. Luca Doncic had 31. Other winners were New York, Boston, Denver, Memphis, Golden State and Oklahoma City who’ve now won 15 in a row and still only had one loss this season. https://www.espn.com/nba/standings

In hockey – The Kings shut out Chicago 6-0 Saturday. The Blackhawks got beat up again yesterday in Anaheim with the Ducks winning 7-1. Yesterday’s other winners were Colorado, Florida, San Jose, Dallas, St. Louis, Vegas, and Washington. Five games tonight including the Kings at Utah.

In the minors – The San Diego Gulls lost 3-2 in overtime to the Texas Stars Friday at Pechanga Arena, then beat them 5-1 in Sunday’s rematch. Their next game is Wednesday at San Jose.

In Major League Baseball – Jack Kent, who holds the record for home runs by a second baseman was elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame yesterday. The 57-year old Kent got 14 of 16 ballots – two more than needed. Those who didn’t get enough support for induction included Barry Bonds, Roger Clemens, Don Mattingly, Dale Murphy and Gary Sheffield. Bonds, Clemens and Sheffield didn’t get the five ballots needed for them to again be considered next year. https://www.espn.com/mlb/story/_/id/47242582/jeff-kent-elected-baseball-hall-fame-contemporary-era-committee-no-barry-bonds-roger-clemens

In Major League Soccer – Inter Miami CF beat Vancouver 3-1 on Saturday in Ft. Lauderdale to win the MLS championship.

In lacrosse – The San Diego Seals next game is the home opener Sunday, December 14 hosting Rochester.

In golf – At the Hero World Challenge in the Bahamas, Hideki Matsuyama was the winner in the first hole of sudden death. He and Alex Noren both finished the four-round tournament at 22 under par 266. https://www.espn.com/golf/leaderboard

In local high school sports: The Valley Center Jaguars won their first-ever state championship playoff game against a school from Moreno Valley Friday night at Valley Center. They now face the Northern California playoff winner in a game this Friday at Cal State Fullerton.

Bonsall – girls’ basketball hosting Liberty Charter at 4:30p

Great Oak – girls’ water polo hosting Heritage at 4p; boys’ soccer hosting Palm Desert at 4p; boys’ basketball hosting Sage Hill at 5p

Fallbrook – no schedule published

Valley Center – girls’ soccer hosting Sage Creek at 4p; boys’ basketball at Granite Hills at 5:30p

BUSINE$$

As of midday trading on Wall Street, stocks were down. The Dow fell four tenths of a percent. The S&P 500 was down 3 tenths. And the Nasdaq was off by a tenth. Comex gold futures were down $19.60 to $4,223.40 an ounce. The benchmark West Texas Intermediate Crude oil futures were off by $1 at $59.08 a barrel.

The Federal Reserve’s final interest rate decision of 2025 will be announced at noon Wednesday.

As expected, Paramount has launched a hostile takeover bid for Warner Bros. Discovery after Netflix prevailed in the bidding war for Warner Bros. film studios and HBO Max streaming from WBD. Paramount contends that keeping the company whole is in the best interests of its shareholders, who are being directly presented with a cash offer of $30 per share. That sets WBD’s value at $108.4b. The offer is backed up by equity financing from Paramount Skydance CEO David Ellison and his family, private equity firm RedBird Capital, several major banks, and several Middle Eastern financing partners. And finally, a portion of the money will come from Affinity Partners, the firm headed by President Trump’s son-in-law, Jared Kushner. The President has said he views the Netflix deal with “heavy skepticism”, indicating it may have trouble getting approved. Netlfix already claims 46% of mobile app monthly active users in streaming worldwide, according to data from Sensor Tower, who says that share would increase to 56% when combined with HBO Max. The film industry fears additional job losses and theater closures due to the acquisition. There are bound to be anti-trust considerations in the regulatory approval process. https://www.cnbc.com/2025/12/08/paramount-skydance-hostile-bid-wbd-netflix.html

The President also says he’ll sign an executive order blocking states from setting their own AI regulations. www.cnn.com

In spite of tariffs imposed by its main trading partner, the U.S., China’s trade surplus has surpassed $1 trillion – the biggest excess of exports to imports ever by any country. www.NYTimes.com

McDonald’s will begin assessing franchisees on their pricing as the chain tries to win back cash-strapped diners. New pricing standards will go into effect the first of the year. About 95% of McDonald’s restaurants worldwide are owned and run by franchisees. But that entails operating under standards set by corporate … and McDonald’s are some of the strictest in the business. The head office says this isn’t a one-size-fits-all mandate. Rather, it’s a way to ensure appropriate pricing for the local market to further the success of restaurants at both the local and corporate level. To that end, owner/operators will still set their own prices, but with the assistance of third-party pricing consultants and other tools provided by corporate. https://www.cnbc.com/2025/12/08/mcdonalds-value-franchising-standards.html

LIFESTYLE / GREEN LIVING

Over the weekend at the movie box office, the horror mystery thriller “Five Nights at Freddy’s 2” opened in first place, selling $63m worth of tickets. Last week’s top movie, “Zootopia 2” dropped by more than half, with $43m in sales on 600 more screens than Freddy – good for second place. “Wicked: For Good” was third with $16.7m in its third week in theaters. “Jujutsu Kaisen” Execution” debuted in 4^th on half as many screens as the others. “Kill Bill: The Whole Bloody Affair” – the reformatted and combined re-release of vols. 1 and 2 from 20 years ago opened in 6^th place, selling $3.2m in tickets on 1,200 screens. The total attendance at this week’s top ten films was down 20% from last week, but still better than average for this year. https://www.boxofficemojo.com/weekend/2025W49/

The U.S. Supreme Court today begins looking at overturning a unanimous 90-year old ruling that limits the power of the President. The move by the high court’s conservative majority is being led by former President George H.W. Bush appointee, Justice John Roberts. www.apnews.com

About eleven months after the devastating Pacific Palisades fire, the first rebuilt home is ready to be occupied – except that it won’t be. A developer, Thomas James Homes bought the property for $3.4m two months before the fire. They’d planned to demolish it. The fire did that. Now the new house will serve as an open-house model for the 100 additional homes the company hopes to build in Pacific Palisades in 2026. www.morningbrew.com

President Trump and the First Lady hosted the Kennedy Center Honors yesterday. CBS and Paramount+ will air the ceremonies December 23. This year’s honorees include Sylvester Stallone, Gloria Gaynor, George Strait, Kiss, and Broadway star Michael Crawford. www.morningbrew.com

On this day in music history – December 8,

1961, The Beach Boys first single, “Surfin’” was released on Candix Records, a small LA-based label. Popularity of the song in Southern California led Capitol Records to sign the group. All Beach Boys songs from then on were released by Capitol.
In 1963, Frank Sinatra Jr. was kidnapped at gunpoint from a hotel in Lake Tahoe. He was released two days later after his father paid the $240k ransom demand. The kidnappers were later captured and sentenced to long prison terms. In order to communicate with the abductors on pay phones, Frank Sr. carried around a roll of dimes which then became a lifetime habit. He is said to have been buried with a roll of dimes.
In 1966, Paul McCartney did overdubs for his song, “When I’m Sixty-Four” after which The Beatles got to work on a new John Lennon song, “Strawberry Fields Forever”.
In 1968, Graham Nash left The Hollies to begin working with David Crosby and Stephen Stills as Crosby, Stills & Nash.
In 1969 at a trial in Canada on drug possession charges, Jimi Hendrix told the jury he had only smoked pot four times, snorted cocaine twice and taken LSD five times in his life. He said he had “outgrown drugs”. They found Hendrix not guilty. He was intoxicated with barbiturates at the time of his death nine months later.
In 1976, The Eagles released their “Hotel California” album – the first with Joe Walsh in the group, replacing founding member Bernie Leadon. It topped the charts for eight weeks and won a Grammy at the 20^th annual awards.
In 1979, Styx were at #1 with “Babe”, their only chart-topping single.
In 1980, John Lennon was shot and killed outside his apartment building in New York City by 25-year old Mark Chapman, who’d been waiting outside the Dakota apartments since mid-morning. He’d asked for and received an autograph from Lennon earlier in the day. Shot five times, Lennon was pronounced dead due to massive blood loss at 11:30p at a New York hospital. Chapman said he wanted to “steal” Lennon’s fame. He also revealed that he planned the killing for three months and considered murdering other celebrities including David Bowie and Johnny Carson whom he thought were “phonies”. Sentenced to 20 years to life for the killing, Chapman is still in prison. He was again denied parole in September 2025. His next hearing is in 2027. Lennon’s widow, Yoko Ono has argued steadfastly against Chapman’s release, saying she fears for her safety and that of Lennon’s two sons, Julian and Sean. She’s also concerned about retribution towards Chapman by angry Beatles fans if he were ever to be released. At a previous parole hearing, the board once said they wouldn’t release Chapman out of concern that someone would kill him for notoriety – the same reason he justified killing Lennon.
In 1982, country singing star Marty Robbins died at age 57 of complications from heart surgery. He had the first #1 song of the 1960s with “El Paso”.
In 1984, Vince Neil from Motley Crue was involved in a car accident in Redondo Beach in which a member of Hanoi Rocks was killed and two others injured. He spent 15 days in jail, five years’ probation and paid $2.6m restitution.
In 2013, Metallica played a show in Antarctica, making them the first band ever to play on all seven continents.
In 2016, Mick Jagger became a father for the eighth time at age 73 when his 29-year old girlfriend, Melanie Hamrick gave birth to a boy.

Born on this day …

In 1925, Sammy Davis Jr.
In 1939, Jerry Butler, formerly with The Impressions. He also had a #4 solo hit in 1969 with “Only the Strong Survive”.
In 1942, Toots Hibbert from Toots and the Maytals
Also in 1942, Bobby Elliott, drummer for The Hollies
In 1943, Jim Morrison, singer and lyricist for The Doors
In 1944, Mike Botts, drummer for Bread
In 1947, Gregg Allman from The Allman Brothers and Geoff Daking from The Blues Magoos
In 1957, Phil Collen, guitarist with Del Leppard
In 1959, Paul Rutherford, vocalist with Frankie Goes to Hollywood
In 1966, Sinead O’Connor

https://www.thisdayinmusic.com/search/?keyword=&date=8&month=12

Other celebrity anniversaries today …

Actress Kim Basinger is 72
Actress Teri Hatcher is 61
Among those who’ve passed, Frank Faylen, character actor in dozens of movies and TV father of Dobie Gillis was born in 1905.
Comedian Flip Wilson was born in 1933
Comedian Sam Kinison was born in 1953

http://www.davesfunstuff.com/a-mb/2080-date1208.htm

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WEATHER

Pala Weather – sunny with a high of 84 this afternoon … Santa Ana winds gusting up to 20 miles an hour tonight … 87 tomorrow … 86 Wednesday … 84 Thursday … 83 Friday … 80 Saturday … 77 Sunday … overnight lows, about 53 tonight and tomorrow night … about 51 Wednesday and Thursday night … about 49 Friday and Saturday night

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