A grand view of shots

The heartland.  Rolling fields of grain.  Rolling gun battles too.  Welcome to Grandview, MO. 
There were shots fired today at the Grandview Alternative School during a fight in the parking lot.  According to those in the know, the shots were most likely fired by a former student of the school.  This is funny in a odd [...]

The recovery road

Today was a good day.  A full day, but a good one.  Well, it was typical “must be Monday” madness at work, but I managed to wrap it up doing some good work for my grandfather. 
He finally came home today, a few weeks after his surgery.  He was extremely glad to be back home.  The [...]

Almost on camera!!!

There was a pretty bad automobile accident on 23rd and Montgall tonight.  What’s the problem?  No one saw the wreck.  Had this happened one block south, it would have been caught on the new city spy cams.  That’s for the 24th St corridor. 
Well, there’s a chance that the cameras haven’t been installed.  Translation…it sucks to [...]

Old crooks can’t run from cops

Grandview police are laughing this morning when they recount how two guys were trying to load an ATM machine onto a flatbed truck.  The cops responded to an alarm and caught the guys with a backhoe trying to get away with the cash machine.  The crooks saw the cops and took off.  Well, they caught one [...]

Just a matter of preference

As blacks rob local 7-Eleven’s, whites have decided to stick up QuikTrip’s.  The QuikTrip on 131st and Holmes was held up at gunpoint on yesterday. 
Moral of the story….I’m sure it was a quick trip.  (Please..please….I’ll be here all week)