Police offer reward in coin theft
By BRENDA SOMMER bsommer@leader-news.com
      A cash reward is available for information on a burglary that cost an El Campo resident his coin collection. Police say the home at 614 Peach was broken into sometime between 12:01 a.m. Saturday, Jan. 5 and 8:30 a.m. Monday, Jan. 7.
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Not This Time
      As law enforcement and rescue officials had hoped, rescuers did not have to race to fatality accidents in Wharton County over the Christmas/New Year's holiday weekends, although a pedestrian was killed in Wharton on Dec. 21.
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COURT REPORTS
      Those pleading guilty to felony level crimes in Wharton County's 329th District Court and accepting punishment include: • Hubert Wayne Kemper, 50, of CR 243 in Wharton for burglary of a habitation and unlawful possession of a firearm. He was placed on three years deferred probation on the c...
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Police Blotter
      City Arrests Alcohol, drugs Raquel Almanzar, 34, of 1014 E. Calhoun was arrested at 2:34 a.m. Saturday, Jan. 5 on charges of driving while intoxicated - second offense and expired driver's license after allegedly hitting another vehicle while in the drive-through line of a fast-food restauran...
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Rewards still offered for 2007's unsolved fires
By SHANNON CRABTREE scrabtree@leader-news.com
      A county bridge destroyed in a deliberately set fire still has drivers detouring around one section of CR 418 and remains the El Campo Fire Department's greatest mystery of 2007. The Sept. 25 arson remains unsolved despite the best efforts of state and local investigators, but the fire burned se...
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