RICHMOND, VA. (WWBT) - Dozens of homes in the Peter Paul area of Church Hill will see a major make over on Saturday. More than  1,500 volunteers will be in the neighborhood to fix all types of problems.

Melvin Washington is a U.S. Marine who served in Vietnam. But that's not where his struggles began. He was shot at work back in 1970. "I'm a spinal cord patient. I still have a bullet in my back and at times I can't walk."

He's confined to a wheelchair. But not just one wheelchair. He has several. "It's very hard because I can't get my wheelchair through here. It's not wide enough."

So that's where Amy King and her team at Rebuilding Together Richmond stepped in.

RICHMOND, VA (WWBT) - A Federal judge denied an ACLU bid today to waive a fee for a Richmond parade.

Organizers wanted to throw a parade around Monroe Park this Sunday for May Day.

Police denied the parade permit unless the group paid $294 for off-duty officers to serve as escorts.

In his ruling, Henry Hudson wrote, that the group failed to show Richmond Police denied the parade permit based on anything other than reasonable public safety concerns.

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RICHMOND, VA (WWBT) - Some VCU fans got a little rowdy after the team's loss in the Final Four.

Six people were arrested during the chaos afterward and today several of them faced a judge for the first time. 

Dozens of people were detained but only six were arrested and charged with disorderly conduct.

Today those facing charges from that night say they were just at the wrong place, at the wrong time.

VCU's improbable run to the Final Four ended with a bang after police used tear gas to disperse rowdy fans.

After the smoke cleared, six people were arrested, including Joel Torreyson and Tom Paxman.

Neither one of them are VCU students but drove from Northern Virginia to watch the game with a friend.

They left Richmond with disorderly conduct charges.