Pete Grigsby did his last broadcast at KMBC-TV on July 5. Bryan Busby surprised him with a
Pete Grigsby did his last broadcast at KMBC-TV on July 5. Bryan Busby surprised him with a special gift from the station.
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Experts are tracking an alarming decline in the number of honebyees, which are needed to p
Experts are tracking an alarming decline in the number of honebyees, which are needed to pollinate many crops. KMBC's Maria Antonia reports.
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A local car dealer is holding a controversial promotion involving guns.
Max Motors in B
A local car dealer is holding a controversial promotion involving guns.
Max Motors in Butler is offering anyone who buys a car the choice of $250 in gas or a free semi-automatic handgun.
"Like I say, it's a choice -- protection or gas," said Walter Moore with Max Motors.
Moore said he came up with the gas or guns promotion.
"We got high gas prices, theft, carjackings, innocent people getting hurt," Moore told KMBC's Chris Nagus.
So far, the handgun is a more popular choice.
"Right now were running 80 percent toward the gun," Moore said.
"Love guns, we all need to have guns," said Jerry Hertzog, who was buying a new truck. "Guns or gas or fuel, I'll take the gun anytime."
But the idea isn't popular with everyone. One viewer told KMBC that he believes the promotion is dangerous.
"I don't understand what's the bad idea. Telling people they have a right to protect themselves," Moore said.
Moore said most of his customers already own weapons.
"I get in a vehicle to bid a trade, there are guns in the seats, guns in the back windows. Everybody has a gun -- there's no backlash," Moore said.
Moore said the dealership will hand the customer a certificate to get the gun, but you must pass a background check.
The local police chief said he is OK with the promotion as long as the weapons aren't handed out at the dealership.
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A new type of vandalism has homeowners fuming and police searching for the culprits who us
A new type of vandalism has homeowners fuming and police searching for the culprits who use their bodies to do serious damage.
Police said they have received nearly 20 reports of garage doors being damaged, likely from what is known as body vandalism.
It's when someone hurls his or her body into an object with the goal of doing damage.
"It's senseless. It's kind of like a burglary. You do feel violated," said Kathy Campbell, whose neighbor had a garage door damaged this month. Police said they suspect it was a case of body vandalism.
"Well, I'm sure they think it's funny," Don Campbell told KMBC's Marcus Moore.
Police said much of the vandalism has been committed at night.
One resident said the body vandals caused more than $1,000 in damage.
"Just to damage someone's property, that's not a good situation," Kathy Campbell said. "If it happened to your parents or your home, how would you feel?"
Police said no arrests have been made, but they have some leads in the case.
"We all kind of look out for each other, try to. But you can't stay up all night, watching the neighborhood," Don Campbell said.
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What if swallowing a pill could save your life?
Modern medicine is offering that hope i
What if swallowing a pill could save your life?
Modern medicine is offering that hope in a pillcam that detects diseases in the small intestines.
"We can make diagnosis of bleeding, lesions, early tumors, some malignant, and narrowing of other types of diseases," said Dr. Marc Taormina with Midwest Gastroenterology Center.
Taormina said one of the most common problems the pillcam detects is Crohn's disease.
KMBC's Lara Moritz wanted to experience the pillcam, so she swallowed one and was hooked up to computer sensors.
Mortiz wore the sensor pack for eight hours while the camera captured more than 55,000 images.
"The capsule is disposable. Once the capsule has reached its battery life, it stops transmitting and leaves the body through a normal bowel movement," Taormina said.
Taormina examined the pictures from Moritz's intestines.
"You can see there's a little red spot. It does look a little abnormal," Taormina said.
Taormina thought the spot indicated acid reflux, which Moritz admitted she has. It's nothing serious, but it could turn into something serious if not detected early.
Doctors believe the Food and Drug Administration will soon approve a colon pill, which will be a less invasive procedure than the standard colonoscopy.
Taormina said the thinks the colon pill will eventually detect polyps before they become cancerous.
He said he expects the FDA to approve the colon pill by the end of 2008.
Taormina said he thinks it's a procedure that won't be as off-putting as a traditional colonoscopy.
"What it will do is it will allow more patients who are eligible to be screened for colon cancer to actually be screened," Taormina said.
Moritz said the only inconvenient part of the pillcam is the preparation. The patient has to drink half of a jug filled with liquid that will clean you out the day before you ingest the pill.
Moritz reported that some insurance companies cover the pillcam. If you have to pay out of pocket, it will cost about $800.
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KMBC's Martin Augustine talks with the Randle family. Both parents and two children are gr
KMBC's Martin Augustine talks with the Randle family. Both parents and two children are graduating this weekend.
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In 2001, Uniontown, Kan. students first met Irena Sendler, a Polish social worker who save
In 2001, Uniontown, Kan. students first met Irena Sendler, a Polish social worker who saved 2500 Jewish children from the Nazis during the holocaust. Few in the world knew about Sendler's work until the Kansas students wrote the play "Life in a Jar". Sendler died on May 12, 2008, at the age of 98.
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It takes less than 45 seconds and three kicks to break into many suburban Kansas City home
It takes less than 45 seconds and three kicks to break into many suburban Kansas City homes, KMBC's Bev Chapman reported.
But there are nine things you can do to help protect your home from criminals.
One of them is a motion-sensitive light. It will deter someone from entering your home under cover of darkness.
Chapman reported that as much as we may fear break-ins at night, the majority of break-ins happen in broad daylight.
"This door can typically be kicked in by a 14-year-old with one kick," said Dave Allen of Edward Wayne Industries. "There's no way to run a long screw through this door system to secure it."
In this case, it is what is called a side-lighted door. There is glass on one side, door on the other. You can find them in homes all over town, Chapman reported.
"The dead bolt that locks into the center mold is only an inch and a half," Allen said.
Once the door is open, the damage is all on the inside. People passing the home would never know someone's inside burglarizing it.
"Secure your doors, create the illusion of occupancy. That's the biggest deterrent to most burglaries," said Officer Mike Betten of the Overland Park, Kan., Police Department.
Betten got involved in the business of busting down doors after a series of home invasions. Four women were sexually assaulted in 1996 by men who kicked in their doors.
"We reinforced the frame with a product we call a JambBrace," Allen said.
Allen and his partner, Ron Olberding, are builders police approached to take a look at the problem. The answer was a small piece of aluminum in the frame. The plates that hold the bolt lock are attached with thread-cutting screws.
"Look, we get a little hairline crack there, but that's about it," Olberding said. "They're not coming through that."
Next they installed laminated glass.
Betten recommends that homeowners invite police in for a safety survey, especially if you're remodeling. Something like a shock alarm is simple to add and will let you know someone's trying to break in before they actually do. Sometimes it is as simple as replacing a dead-bolt lock or closing a door.
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How would you like to save one-third or even one-half on some of the grocery items you buy
How would you like to save one-third or even one-half on some of the grocery items you buy?
You can do it, but you have to know where to look.
KMBC's Jim Flink put some local stores to the test to see if he could buy items cheaper just by shopping around.
Flink tested three different kind of stores -- Price Chopper, ALDI and Wal-Mart.
His shopping list was simple: oat cereal, a can of corn, a box of macaroni and cheese, eggs, ravioli, bananas, bread and bacon.
Flink only bought off-brands and always bought the cheapest item available. He did not use any in-store discounts or coupons.
In some cases, the price difference was remarkable.
For example, macaroni and cheese was 63 cents at Price Chopper, 50 cents at Wal-Mart and 33 cents at ALDI.
Flink reported that ALDI was the low price leader on every item purchased. ALDI sold oat cereal for $1.49, at a savings of 35 cents. Canned corn sold at 39 cents, versus a high of 63 cents.
And ALDI also sold a dozen eggs for $1.39 versus a high of $1.78 at Wal-Mart.
The smallest savings found was for a can of ravioli, there was only an 11-cent differential.
The greatest savings difference was in bacon, although the sizes and quality were clearly different between the ALDI bacon, which sold for $1.79, and the bacon from Price Chopper that rang in at $4.28, Flink reported.
In total, Flink spent $13.62 at Price Chopper, $11.59 at Wal-Mart and $9.11 at ALDI.
Some more tips to cut your grocery bill are to stockpile. Stores discount most items only once per 10 to 12 weeks, so if the item won't go bad, buy it while it's on sale.
Also, shop on Sundays -- that's when the coupons and circulars come out, and Consumer Reports found that families can save more than $600 a year by utilizing them.
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