Parents urged to take Internet offensive
By BRENDA SOMMER bsommer@leader-news.com
      The Texas Attorney General's Cyber Crimes Investigation Unit wants parents to remember that Internet predators are still a threat to children. Awareness of the dangers has grown in the last few years, and although parents tend to take more precautions than they used to, there's still dangers of w...
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Police Blotter
      City Arrests Property Anselmo Guajardo Jr., 46, of 1425 Flora was arrested Monday, April 7 at 9:25 a.m. on a warrant for issuance of a bad check as well as five warrants for no insurance and one warrant for expired driver's license, no seat belt and expired registration while already in the Wh...
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Out Of Control
      El Campo volunteer firefighters raced to the scene of a grass fire on CR 414 at Hwy. 71 last weekend. The small fire had raged out of control and had spread to a stack of discarded tires before firefighters were called to the scene. Even though the county is not under a burn ban, residents are urg...
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Scholarship effort to honor fallen game warden
By SHANNON CRABTREE scrabtree@leader-news.com
      With the goal of honoring a fallen Texas Game Warden, the Justin Hurst Celebrity Waterfowl Hunt is in the planning process. And the organization is going to need help, said President Troy Albrecht who is also a Wharton County Sheriff's Deputy.
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COURTHOUSE NEWS
Court records returning to paper
      After disappearing from the pages of the El Campo Leader-News, Wharton Journal-Spectator and East Bernard Express for more than a year, and after several requests for its return, your newspapers will again offer as a regular feature a listing of Wharton County marriage licenses filed for, a...
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