Stores in Colorado Springs, Fort Collins, Greeley and Longmont will hold strike-authorization votes tonight and tomorrow morning.

Safeway employees at a Denver store walked out Monday, expanding a strike that started this weekend. The strike started small with workers at three stores in Estes Park, Fountain and Pueblo, and a Denver distribution center.

The U.S. Open at Oakmont Country Club put a number of the best players in the world in a bad place through two days of competition. Major champion Shane Lowry was among those who failed to make the cut after the course got the better of him. "I let it sort of do what I said I wouldn't do, but ...