Kansas City gas prices: A wild wide in the month of May

KANSAS CITY, Mo. - Gas prices went down almost two cents in Kansas City, Mo., Friday, a 12th consecutive drop, but still marked the end to a wild month of painful trips to the pump for millions of drivers here and across the country.

When viewed through the nozzle of your ride to work and school, the first day of the month seems like a long time ago.

A gallon of regular unleaded gasoline cost $3.2634 on the Missouri side of the metro on May 1, according to the AAA Daily Fuel Gauge Report. Drivers in Kansas City, Kan., as always, were paying a little more, $3.363o. Both were a considerable amount under the pace of the national average of $3.5221.

Justin Bieber delights Travis Barker's daughter with special visit

Pop star JUSTIN BIEBER is under police investigation for allegedly driving his sports car at dangerously fast speeds inside the confines of his private gated community over the last few days.

Police responded to two separate calls from residents of the exclusive The Oaks compound in Calabasas, California claiming the Baby hitmaker was driving his Ferrari at breakneck speeds in the vicinity of at least one child playing.

Los Angeles Country Sheriff spokesman Steve Whitmore tells TMZ.com the callers reported Bieber was driving at a "startling high rate of speed" and the singer refused to speak to the cops who went to the star's house to investigate.

Will Smith staged 'reality check' dinner for Tyrese Gibson

TRANSFORMERS director MICHAEL BAY called in pal WILL SMITH to share a few words of wisdom with his star TYRESE GIBSON after the actor/singer made a series of errors on the set of his blockbuster.

Gibson refuses to go into detail about what he did to upset the moviemaker, but it led to a tense dinner table showdown with Smith, during which the Men in Black star lectured his protege on how to make it Hollywood.

The Fast & the Furious 6 star tells news show Access Hollywood, "The first dinner that me and Will had, I called it the reality check dinner... I probably ran from the dinner table about 15 times during this conversation because he was dropping such heavy jewels (of wisdom) on me. It was crazy.

Zach Galifianakis skips Sugarloaf Mountain press conference over fear of heights

THE HANGOVER star ZACH GALIFIANAKIS pulled out of a press conference in Brazil after he found out the event would take place at a venue on the ascent to the country's famous Sugarloaf Mountain.

The funnyman was due to join his castmates, including Bradley Cooper and Ed Helms, for a junket to promote the third installment in the comedy franchise in Rio de Janeiro this week (beg27May13).

However, Galifianakis decided to skip the event after he found out the Morro da Urca site, where the press conference was held, is 220 metres (722 feet) above ground on the ascent to Sugarloaf Mountain and can only be reached by cable car.

Mermaids do NOT exist, agency assures Americans after TV show prompts questions from viewers

The question as to whether mermaids are real or not was recently put to rest as a U.S. scientific agency confirmed the sea creatures do not exist.

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration have confirmed that there is no evidence that the half-human, half-fish beings are a genuine living species.

The agency made a statement last week clarifying that the sea species is not real after they received a few calls following a fictional Animal Planet show called Mermaids: The Body Found that confused some viewers as fact.

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