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The Senate voted 97-1 to stop shipping high-priced oil to the nation's emergency reserve.

Both Democrats and Republicans said such shipments make no sense when oil is costing more than $120 a barrel and could better be used to add supplies to a tight market and possibly lower prices.

"We are buying the most expensive crude oil in the history of the world and storing it," said Sen. Byron Dorgan, D-N.D. "When American consumers are burning at the stake by high energy prices, the government ought not be carrying the wood."

I was only paying half-attention to the waning moments of the Celtics-Cavaliers game last night when Lebron James

Denver police officers would be required to impound the cars of unlicensed drivers under a measure aimed at illegal immigrants that is likely to appear on the August ballot.

Daniel J. Chacon reports:

The City Council voted 9-3 on first reading Monday to refer the initiative to voters. It is up for a second reading next week.

The three who voted in opposition - Rick Garcia, Chris Nevitt and Judy Montero - violated the city charter in the process.

By charter, the council has only two options when dealing with a citizen's initiative: refer it to voters or adopt it by ordinance.

Montero said she couldn't vote any other way because the proposal goes against her moral conscience.

Assistant city attorney Dani Eliscu resigned after a Denver police officer admitted "fixing" a speeding ticket for the prosecutor's boyfriend.

Brian Maass of CBS4News reports:

"That is not OK, not acceptable and unethical to do anything like that," said Vince DiCroce, director of prosecution for the Denver City Attorney's Office.

Do you want Colorado's gambling landscape to look like this:

or this:

Jonathan M. Anderson, former chief counsel to Gov. Bill Owens, writes:

The Colorado Gaming Association has submitted a 2008 ballot initiative that would pave the way to raising existing bet limits by 475 percent, allow for 24-hour gambling operations, and add Vegas-style craps and roulette to the existing gaming options. Essentially, they want to turn Colorado's limited gaming towns into a Western-themed Atlantic City.

Former Georgia Congressman Bob Barr is running for the Libertarian Party's presidential nomination which will be determined at the party's national convention over the Memorial Day weekend at the Sheraton Denver Hotel.

His candidacy would be a wild card in the White House race and many believe it would hurt Republican Sen. John McCain.

Barr made the announcement Monday at a news conference. He first must win the Libertarian nomination at the party's national convention that begins May 22. Party officials consider him a front-runner thanks to the national profile he developed as a Georgia congressman from 1995 to 2003.

Hillary Clinton's assertion that Barack Obama's support was slipping among whites without college degrees, has been both rebuked and defended.

Clinton says she's staying in the race despite losing to Obama by a wide margin in North Carolina and barely winning in Indiana, which helped cement his status as the front-runner. She touts her overall electability in a general election and, pointing to demographics, recently told USA Today in an interview:

"There was just an AP article posted that found how Senator Obama's support among working - hardworking Americans, white Americans, is weakening again, and how the, you know, whites in both states who had not completed college were supporting me."