Altercation leads to 2 wounded in shooting outside Walgreens in Old Colorado City

PLUS | 2 injured after small plane lands alongside I-25 near Larkspur and more. [View in browser]( [Share with a friend]( Springs PM Update Good evening! Today is Sunday, June 16, 2024. Catch up on everything going on in Colorado in 5 minutes. [Altercation leads to 2 wounded in shooting outside Walgreens in Old Colorado City]( A fight between two people escalated to gunfire outside of a business in Old Colorado City on Sunday, leaving both hospitalized with gunshot wounds, according to the Colorado Springs Police Department. [Read More]( [[SPONSORED] Reading Helps Four-time Paralympic Gold Medalist Unwind]( Develop a love or reading – like Paralympic Gold Medalist Kendall Gretsch – when you register for PPLD's Summer Adventure. Win prizes for reading, creating and exploring during the program's 50th anniversary year! [Read More]( [Broncos cornerback Pat Surtain seeks 'greatness' after saying play wasn't 'up to par' in 2023]( Broncos cornerback Pat Surtain II wants to be a perennial All-Pro selection. He hopes to one day be inducted into the team’s Ring of Fame. With that in mind, Surtain doesn’t believe he was good enough last season. He did make a second straight Pro Bowl but wasn’t All-Pro like he had been in 2022. [Read More]( [Nine nominations for Colorado Springs theater companies]( Four Colorado Springs theater companies were represented when the Colorado Theatre Guild’s always celebratory, always controversial Henry Awards nominations were announced Sunday morning. But the nine overall nominations between them seems hardly representative of the swath of excellent work produced by those companies over the past year. [Read More]( [Rocky Ford melon farmers hopeful to see a 'comeback' in this season's crop]( Following a rough farming season in Colorado over the summer of 2023 due to unprecedented rain and hailstorms, Michael Hirakata of Hirakata farms said he hopes his Rocky Ford cantaloupe and watermelon crop will have a better time of it this season. [Read More]( [[SPONSORED] IT'S RODEO TIME! Get your tickets to the NFR Open at the Pikes Peak or Bust Rodeo TODAY!]( See the best ProRodeo cowboys and cowgirls riding to win more than $1 million in payouts! Read More [The Gazette's 2024 Primary Election Voter Guide]( Ballots for the June 25 primary election went out to voters in El Paso and Teller counties last week. [Read More]( [EDITORIAL: Enhance equity with legal e-bikes on trails]( The pandemic changed society, for the better and worse. On the positive side, it helped people discover camping, hiking, boating, fishing and most of all — bicycling. No longer is biking to work, to do errands, to exercise or just have fun enjoyed only by children and Lycra-clad young adults in good health. Today, we see people in their 80s and 90s enjoying long rides on the city’s 100-plus miles of combined pedestrian and biking trails. [Read More]( [2 injured after small plane lands alongside I-25 near Larkspur]( Two people were injured early Sunday after a small plane landed alongside Interstate 25, according to the Colorado State Patrol. Multiple state and local agencies responded after a 7:45 a.m. call came in about an aircraft that had landed near Larkspur, a CSP spokesman said. The airplane, which was found east of the interstate, had two occupants. Both were out of the plane, alive but injured, when responders arrived. [Read More]( [Facebook]( [Twitter]( [Instagram]( [LinkedIn]( [YouTube]( Was this email forwarded to you? Sign up [here.]( Engage in the conversation in [today's eEdition]( Interested in podcasts? Check out ours [here]( Manage your email preferences or unsubscribe [here.]( 30 East Pikes Peak Avenue, Suite 100 Colorado Springs, CO 80903