Canton News

By KENNETH DEAN Staff Writer CANTON - A Van Zandt County jail inmate who escaped earlier today has been captured near Interstate 20 south of Will's Point at around 2:30 p.m., officials confirmed.

Gilmer Gilmer will hold its Yamboree Fireworks at Gilmer High School's Stadium the night of July 3rd.

If you See It you can Snap It and then Send It to KLTV. Traffic on Interstate 20 has now been shut down about five miles west of Canton in Van Zandt County because of a four vehicle accident involving an 18 ...

Col. Roger Q. Mills 2466, UDC Col. Roger Q. Mills 2466, United Daughters of the Confederacy, met March 31 at Two Doors Down Coffee Shop, 106 W. Sixth Ave., with 12 members and one guest present.

The last school bell has sounded and the sounds of waves crashing upon the shores of sandy beaches and children laughing while at animated amusement parks creates a pleasant melody for families that anticipate ...

Charlie Lee Farmer, a U.S. Navy Corpsman, and his son, Mark, 4, attend a welcome home party held in his honor on Monday in Canton.

A Van Zandt County woman got an unexpected surprise Wednesday night when she went outside of her home and found an eight foot alligator under a car in her driveway.

A few times each month, Karen Marks stands among the volunteers greeting the troops who land daily at Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport, all on two weeks' leave from Iraq or Afghanistan.

Photo by Terry Britt Adam Goodson, co-owner of Goodson Family Market in Canton, sets out some fresh Texas tomatoes.

Swimmers at the Old City Lake are asked to be more cautious after a 16-year-old reported seeing a six-foot alligator at the lake located off Old Kaufman Road in Canton on Friday.

Admission: Ticket prices are $35 Thursday, which includes the Ray Price concert.

The U.S. Department of Agriculture Rural Development offices in Henderson and Canton will stay open, despite previous plans to close and consolidate them in Tyler.

For all three of these years, the largest Tour of the season has been the Vintage Air Tour.

BREAKING NEWS: Canton man dies on Hwy. 19 wreck A Canton man was killed in a single-vehicle wreck on State Highway 19 north Saturday morning.

Marianne Martinez VAN ZANDT CO. A Van Zandt County teen is found severely injured on the side of a country road in the middle of the night.

The Van Zandt County Sheriff's Department on Wednesday appealed for help in an investigation of a man found in roadway this week.

The Van Zandt County Sheriff's Department today issued a public appeal for help in an investigation of a man in roadway this week.

By KENNETH DEAN Staff Writer CANTON - Van Zandt County Sheriff's detectives are trying to identify a man who died shortly after he was found in the middle of a highway early Monday morning.

WHATCHA GOT COOKIN'?: Donece Corey, of Canton, stirs a pot of mashed potatoes during the Chuck Wagon Cookoff, part of the Gladewater Round-Up Rodeo, on Saturday in Gladewater.

Tragically, the senior class at Canton High School is graduation tonight without one of their own.