A Pulaski County man died yesterday after he ran his car into a tree. 45-year old Billy Ray Harrison was driving south on route 100 in Pulaski shortly after six when he drove off the side of the road and struck a tree. Officials say Harrison died at the scene. No one else was injured. Salem State Police say in its region over the holiday weekend seven people died on Virginia roads.
State police say they have joined a nationwide effort to bring the accident rate down.
Prison life for some inmates at Bland Correctional Center includes working on a farm. It's something the medium-security state prison has been doing for 50 years. Marya Jones has the story. He does it all inside the confines of Bland County's medium-security state prison. In his ninth year of a 28-year sentence for burglarizing doctors' offices and stealing drugs, Worrell says working with the dairy cows is his salvation.