Uniden makes all of Radio Shack's scanners, so you might get a better deal if they have a sale going on.
Grab all the freqs you need online, since I'm in CT, I use
http://www.fordyce.org/scanning/
You hear everything with the right frequencies. Police, fire, ambulance, school bus, military aircraft, Verizon Voicemail (pretend you didn't hear that.)
If you're not sure that you're going to be keeping up with it, and don't want to blow a few hundred on a toy that you'll throw back into the toybox after a few weeks, try a yard sale, if someone has one, it'll already have freqs in it, and you won't empty your pockets