Depending on who was looking, Samuel Aaron Brabson was either a wheelchair-dependent accident victim in terrible pain or an iron-willed mountain climber who'd made a remarkable recovery.

 

CHARLOTTESVILLE -- The juvenile charged with the Interstate 64 shootings pleaded guilty to five counts and acknowledged a role in all 15 charges against him in court yesterday.

 

Far Southwest Virginia

Far Southwest Virginia boasts some of the state's most rugged and beautiful woodlands, but up until this week it has never had a patch of forest specifically protected by the state. That's set to change tomorrow when Virginia forestry officials, along with legislators and sundry other dignitaries, plan to gather to declare more than 4,800 acres of mountainous Washington and Russell counties the Channels State Forest.