Canton News

Share + Feb 4, 2010 7:57 pm US/Central By Jane Slater WILLS POINT Investigators said there had been no church fires since January 20th, when a tornado touched down in Canton, but Thursday morning a Wills Point church burned to the ground.

Abby Rike has quite a story to tell, and she will be at First Baptist Church in Jacksonville to do just that.

A lockdown and drug search at Wills Point High School resulted in two arrests on Tuesday, according to principal Jim Lamb and resource officer Nicole Griffin.

The National Weather Service is out with a post-mortem on last week's tornadoes and they were tornadoes - three in all.

National Weather Service crews from Fort Worth were in Van Zandt County Thursday morning to assess damages made by storms that came through the area Wednesday night, and said it was in fact an EF2 Tornado with winds of up to 120 miles an hour that touched down.

County and state emergency officers were searching the Silver Lake area Thursday after a tornado inflicted major damage throughout Van Zandt County on Wednesday.

Share + Jan 21, 2010 10:38 pm US/Central Reporting Garry Seith Many North Texans east of the Metroplex experienced their first bout of severe weather this year on Wednesday as severe storms dropped as many as five tornadoes in three North Texas Counties.A The National Weather Service sent out two damage assessment teams to assess damage from the ...

We were ont he front porch watching the weather blow thru Canton. As the wind began to howl, I grabbed my camera, shot these two pictures and thewn took cover.

A possible tornado ripped down trees, knocked out power and damaged several homes Wednesday evening in Van Zandt County east of Dallas.

A powerful storm packing high winds moved through Canton in Van Zandt County just before 5 p.m. Wednesday.

By DAYNA WORCHEL Staff Writer A series of eight church fires that began in East Texas on Jan.

DALLAS) - The National Weather Service has confirmed that at least five tornadoes damaged parts of east Texas.

Van Zandt County suffered major damage in Canton near part of the city where first monday trade days are held.

It was a busy day for folks in the path of yesterday's storms. "They told us to get all the chainsaws and backhoes and go to the Wynne Community in Canton," says Ken Wigginton , Van Zandt County Road Crew.

DALLAS a 'Powerful thunderstorms caused widespread damage Wednesday in East Texas, but no serious injuries were reported.

Officials in Canton and Van Zandt County are confirming tonight that there is damage in the Canton and Silver Lake areas.

A possible tornado left a trail of damage near the intersection of Interstate 20 and Highway 19 near Canton Wednesday afternoon.

A Canton woman died Thursday morning after the vehicle she was driving was hit by a van at the intersection of State Highway 19 and Farm-to-Market 1256, near the China Grove Community.

January 1, 2010 is a day Reverend Bill Parr and Little Hope Baptist Church members will not soon forget.

It became official as the clock struck midnight on January 1. South Van Zandt Volunteer Fire Department was on duty as first responders to the 80 square miles of unincorporated area outside the city limits of Canton.