Henrico man guilty in shooting death of father’s girlfriend A Henrico County man who readily told investigators last year that he shot and killed his elderly, disabled father’s girlfriend wasn’t quite as ready to admit his crime before a judge. After balking at a guilty plea last week at a hurriedly called court appearance, James A. Walker Sr., 49, told Judge Daniel T. Balfour of Henrico Circuit Court yesterday that he is guilty of the first-degree murder of 49-year-old Susan D. Fitzpatrick.

DEMOGRAPHIC DISASTER? If you thought America’s culture wars, foreign policy debates, and presidential campaigns generated heated rhetoric, you ain’t seen nothin’ yet. The looming conflict between the generations over entitlements for the graying population could shape up as the most bruising domestic issue since the Civil Rights movement. Indeed the generation gap—or, rather, the gap between the entitlements we think we deserve and those we can afford—could soon supplant race, class, and gender as the most divisive force in American politics. Won’t that be fun?

It was a big story in the gossip journals last November: Marian Robinson, Michelle Obama’s 71-year-old mother, was moving into the White House with the first family.