ICYMI | Discount retailer Big Lots to close all three of its Colorado Springs stores

PLUS | Democrats confident they can keep Colorado House supermajority, GOP sees opportunity and more. [View in browser]( [Share with a friend]( Springs PM Update Good evening! Today is Tuesday, August 6, 2024. Catch up on everything going on in Colorado in 5 minutes. [Discount retailer Big Lots to close all three of its Colorado Springs stores]( Big Lots is getting smaller. The national discount retailer that sells furniture, home décor, kitchenware and other items, will close its three Colorado Springs stores and five more in Colorado as part of the financially troubled chain's decision to shutter more than 300 locations nationwide. [Read More]( [Blue Angels deliver sellout crowd ahead of Pikes Peak Regional Airshow]( The Pikes Peak Regional Airshow is right around the corner, and tickets are going fast, according to show officials. With less than two weeks before the show, which features the Navy’s Blue Angels for the first time, general admission for Saturday, Aug. 17, is sold out and there are fewer than 2,500 tickets left for the Sunday show. [Read More]( [Colorado wildfire updates: All mandatory evacuations lifted in Jefferson County]( Those rushed out of their homes over the past week due to the raging fire near Deer Creek Canyon Road can finally breathe a sigh of relief. The Jefferson County Sherriff's Office announced Tuesday morning that all impacted by the mandatory evacuations in the Ken Caryl area can officially return home as of 10 a.m. [Read More]( [Spirit Halloween around Colorado: Here's where 2024's stores are]( It might be only August, but the largest Halloween retailer in the country, Spirit Halloween, has announced its Colorado locations for 2024, according to the company's website. [Read More]( [Denver Broncos re-sign ex-Air Force ILB Alec Mock, waive OLB Ronnie Perkins]( When former Air Force inside linebacker Alec Mock was waived by the Broncos in June, he said there was a chance he could return to the team. That's what happened Tuesday. [Read More]( [Fentanyl smuggling attempts at the El Paso County jail foiled: Sheriff's Office]( El Paso County sheriff’s deputies recently stopped two separate attempts to smuggle fentanyl into the jail, officials said in a Tuesday news release. Samantha Peterson and Domenic Dangelo face charges related to the illegal introduction of contraband into the jail, punishable by up to six years in prison, the Sheriff’s Office said. [Read More]( [Democrats confident they can keep Colorado House supermajority, GOP sees opportunity]( Much like Congress, the Colorado Legislature's leadership has varied over the past few decades. Throughout the 1990s and 2000s, Republicans controlled both chambers of the State Legislature, but the governor was a Democrat. This changed when Bill Owens was elected in 2003, but the governorship returned to the Democrats the following election. [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