For a second straight year, Michelle Wie will not be playing in the Safeway International due to an injury to her left wrist that is more serious than first diagnosed.

When the final round of the LPGA Safeway International gets down to the nitty-gritty today, expect the risky but often rewarding 18th hole at Superstition Mountain to play a key role.

Keeping up with Annika has become the theme of the LPGA, and it also will be the storyline this weekend at the Safeway International.

Safeway plans to expand its in-store banking service starting this fall through a new partnership with U.S. Bancorp.

Can Annika Sorenstam hang on?

After she shot a course-record 62 in the first round, Angela Stanford held no expectations of more record scores. She was wrong.

The two leaders both started and finished their rounds. Lorena Ochoa was just a little stronger.

Most everybody who plays golf has had “one of those days.’’ The drives boom 20 yards farther than usual or the irons seem to have radar or the cup looks as large as a manhole cover.

Michelle Wie withdrew from the Safeway International on Friday after tweaking an injury to her left wrist during practice last week.

A robber forced an employee on a cigarette break to empty cash registers at a Safeway on Saturday.

First-round leader Angela Stanford still held the lead early Friday afternoon at the LPGA Safeway International, but Lorena Ochoa, Jee Young Lee and Annika Sorenstam made charges with rounds of 67.

Shots left over from the Safeway International, where 45-yearold Hall of Famer Juli Inkster proved she’s not done yet: Sunday’s final round had a bizarre conclusion, somewhere between the “Battle at Bighorn’’ and “The Legend of Bagger Vance.’’

Even though Annika Sorenstam was slightly upstaged by another former University of Arizona star in Thursday’s opening round of the Safeway International, the sweet-swinging Swede still was in perfect position to defend her title.

This is not your mother’s LPGA, although "Mom" still might recognize a few familiar faces this week at the Safeway International.

Safeway cut 80 Arizona jobs Tuesday in the company’s Tempe and northwest Phoenix operations.

Safeway’s 550 Tempe distribution center workers and truck drivers in Arizona are on the brink of a walkout, as both sides continue efforts to forge a new contract.

Gilbert police are asking for the public’s help in identifying and locating a female robbery suspect that officers say robbed a Safeway grocery store about two weeks ago.