Suspect a He or She?
Suspected Planned Parenthood shooter Robert L. Dear was listed as a woman on his Colorado voter registration form, a detail that fueled speculation he may have identified as transgender by some right wing media sources.
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Rash of Burglaries strike Salida Restaurants
Large amounts of cash were stolen when four Salida restaurants were burglarized between June 21 and July 17. The latest victim was the Patio Pancake restaurant on U.S. 50 in which an unknown sum of cash was taken during the night of July 17.
Three earlier burglaries occurred during the FIBArk festival weekend when three area restaurants experienced late-night break-ins resulting in the theft of large quantities of cash. Thieves struck The Boathouse Cantiña, Bongo’s Salida Café and The Windmill Restaurant between about 10 p.m., June 21 and 7 a.m. June 22, making off with more then $65,000 in cash.
Brief by Ed Quillen
News Roundup – September 2003 – Colorado Central Magazine
Deadly Skeeters
Colorado leads the nation in West Nile virus infections, and the disease has spread into the mountains, with one human case and two horses reported in Chaffee County during the first week of August. One of the horses’ cases was fatal.