News Staff After 84 years of life, Grace Glaze died last Monday. Glaze – or Gran to the people that knew her – spent the past 30 years organizing, volunteering and supporting Wharton County’s youngest at the Wharton County Youth Fair. According to the people who knew her, she was the first to treat everyone like family … Read more
Louise trustees are set to review the findings of the district’s annual audit today. The district added 3 percent, or $114,700 more to their assets this year over the 2020-21 school year from $4.11 million in 2020-21 to $4,23 million in 2021-22. This runs in line with the district’s plans, and legal requirements, for districts … Read more
A smoke alarm helped save lives and foil an arsonist in El Campo last week. Now police are on the hunt for whoever may be responsible. The attack came in the 600 block of Fahrenthold via burning paper towel on a window sill. No one was harmed in the incident and damage to the home … Read more
A Rockport man will spend eight years behind prison bars after pleading guilty to an El Campo gunpoint robbery in March 2020. 35-year-old Gilbert Ray Cavazos pleaded guilty to two counts of aggravated robbery and a single count of unauthorized use of a motor vehicle. Judge Hardin sentenced him to eight years in prison while … Read more
Smoke shops and those doing automotive repairs may be more limited on where they can locate and how they interact with the public if the El Campo City Council approves new regulations today. The Planning & Zoning Commission is recommending these businesses be required to have a special use permit before opening shop in commercial … Read more
Wharton County Sheriff’s Office Patrol Captain Bill Hedges assisted with an arrest last weekend while shopping at Tractor Supply Company in El Campo. He saw a male subject open a DeWalt box at TSC. He recognized the man as 64-year-old El Campo resident Domingo Aldape from previous law enforcement encounters. Hedges identified himself as a … Read more
A stay in the case State of Texas v. Robert Allen Satterfield, to be tried in District Court of Wharton County, was imposed Friday by the 13th Court of Appeals in Corpus Christi to give the defense team time to obtain additional DNA and ballistics testing. Satterfield is accused of murdering an Angleton couple and … Read more
El Campo senior RB and five-star recruit Rueben Owens, the country’s top running back prospect in the Class of 2023, announced his decommitment from Louisville late Wednesday afternoon. Owens has officially reopened his recruitment. Owens, who originally committed to the Louisville Cardinals in late July, is regarded as the No. 1 running back nationally and … Read more
Parents are outraged after an aide who’s supposed to help kids with special needs in the Wharton Independent School District was arrested for hitting students, some of whom are non-verbal. CPS has been investigating this for months, but once the school district found out about what was going, it launched its own investigation and fired … Read more
The man Victoria police had a Thursday night standoff with was arrested last Friday on 21 charges. 37 year old Mark Anthony Garcia Jr. of Victoria, was arrested on suspicion of six counts of aggravated assault against a public servant and on a single count of manufacture or delivery of a controlled substance less than … Read more