Pala News

Spokesman Doug Elmets said the tribal council vote was taken Wednesday and concerned the "blood quantum" requirement that tribal members have at least 1/16th native blood to be members.

The North County Times says the expulsions were approved Wednesday by the tribal council of the Pala Band of Mission Indians.

The man who stabbed his fiancee to death while trapping her in a van at The Promenade mall, after raping her and taking her virginity will spend the rest of his life behind bars.

A 27-year-old Pala man was sentenced this morning to life in prison without the possibility of parole for the 2009 murder of his fiancee at the mall in Temecula.

Valley View, as well as Sycuan and Pala, created enclosed smoke-free areas in their casinos.

Assembly candidate Michele Martinez todayA blasted a reporter who overheard her phone call on a train to Northern California as "creepy" in an emailed statement to the Orange County Register .A Califorinia Watch investigative journalist Bob Salladay , a senior editor, tweeted fromA his train seatA acrossA Martinez this morning from Southern ... (more)

Cell phone technology has evolved to the point where the speaker no longer needs to shout into it to be heard, which is a lesson everyone should learn .A In a series of Tweets from Bob Salladay , a senior editor of investigative reporting for California Watch,A who is currently on a train from Southern California to Oakland, the reporter is ... (more)