New Safeway locations joined UFCW Local 7's strike efforts on Monday, bringing the total to six locations across the state with more expected in the coming days.Among the hundreds of union workers already on strike is Castle Rock store clerk Tanner Vonstein.

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

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 ...