{"id":1327434,"date":"2024-06-04T10:37:15","date_gmt":"2024-06-04T15:37:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=1327434"},"modified":"2024-06-05T16:51:35","modified_gmt":"2024-06-05T21:51:35","slug":"van-zandt-county-commissioner-dies-after-tree-falls-onto-car","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=1327434","title":{"rendered":"Van Zandt County commissioner dies after tree falls onto car"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"VAN ZANDT COUNTY \u00e2\u20ac\u201c Longtime Van Zandt County Precinct 2 Commissioner Virgil Melton Jr. is dead after a tree fell onto his car while he was driving Monday night. According to our news partner KETK, a initial DPS reports the 76-year-old Melton Jr. was driving on FM 279 near Edom around 8 p.m., when a tree fell onto the car. He was pronounced dead at the scene. Melton’s wife Janice, was taken to a Tyler hospital for treatment. Officials say the investigation into the incident is continuing. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

VAN ZANDT COUNTY \u00e2\u20ac\u201c Longtime Van Zandt County Precinct 2 Commissioner Virgil Melton Jr. is dead after a tree fell onto his car while he was driving Monday night. According to our news partner KETK, a initial DPS reports the 76-year-old Melton Jr. was driving on FM 279 near Edom around 8 p.m., when a … Continue reading Van Zandt County commissioner dies after tree falls onto car<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":65,"featured_media":1327442,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2024\/06\/PCT2Comm-200x200.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"Van Zandt County commissioner dies after tree falls onto car","footnotes":""},"categories":[177],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1327434","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news-archive-archives"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-12 09:27:58","action":"change-status","newStatus":"trash","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2024\/06\/PCT2Comm-200x200.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"Van Zandt County commissioner dies after tree falls onto car","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1327434","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/65"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1327434"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1327434\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1327443,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1327434\/revisions\/1327443"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1327442"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1327434"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1327434"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1327434"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}