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Security guards at Clyde Academy.

Did a security officer at Clyde C. Miller Career Academy, a St. Louis high school, pepper spray students in an effort to break up some sort of a food fight?

That's the allegation of a KSDK (Channel 5) story, which says that, according to students leaving the building at dismissal, a guard decided to use mace to end a conflict yesterday.

Officials with St. Louis Public Schools tell Daily RFT that an incident did take place, but decline to offer any further details at this time or confirm whether an official did use pepper spray.

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Stan Musial's dining room, NBD.

What's it like to be one of the most beloved baseball players of all time? If you have $1.8 million, you can sort of find out!

That's right, folks. You can sleep where the late, great Stan Musial once slept in his Ladue home that is officially on sale, as of yesterday.

Live like the greatest Cardinal that ever lived lived! Agents with Laura McCarthy Real Estate tell Daily RFT they will begin showing the house as early as next week.

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Crime scene last night.

A young woman was killed inside a north-county home yesterday when someone fired bullets into a house from the driveway.

Patricia Singleton, who would have turned 22 years old today, was found dead just before midnight last night at a home on 2100 block of Chambers Road, near Halls Ferry Road. She lived nearby.

Was she the intended target?

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Brad Pitt, full of regret.

Brad Pitt wishes he did not drop out of the University of Missouri.

Why? Because who would do such a foolish thing? What kind of guy would just give up on academics?

Pitt, who grew up in Springfield -- where his parents still live -- opens up about his loneliness and his unfinished academic career in the upcoming issue of Esquire.

It's a must-read, Missouri!

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Soccer at Busch? Blasphemy!

Think soccer at Busch Stadium will be a hit? Not so fast, sissy boys!

This is the message of a handful of vocal, outraged haters, a.k.a., the Best Fans In Baseball, who are making their disdain for soccer at Busch very clear on the Facebook page of the Cardinals, which is prepping for the Manchester City v. Chelsea F.C. match tomorrow. To some, it's quite prestigious for St. Louis to host the Premier League's exhibition game, but to others, it's a tragedy of epic proportions. Like a destructive, un-American, sacrilegious, evil force that is going to permanently poison the holy grounds of Busch.

So as the stadium continues its soccer transformation, we present to you the Best Fans in Baseball who are also the Worst Fans in Soccer.

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Angela and Gerald Taylor.

Angela and Gerald Taylor might just be the most devoted Schnucks customers in the company's more than seven decades in business.

Early in their relationship, Gerald took Angela on a date to a Schnucks grocery store. Since then, they've had regular Friday date nights there. They've had birthday parties at the store. And this month, the couple had their wedding ceremony inside the Des Peres Schnucks. With Schnucks catering, of course.

"It's just a special place," Angela Taylor, 50, tells Daily RFT, adding of her wedding, "It was wonderful. We wouldn't change anything about it, absolutely nothing."

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Nicky Vigna.

On February 4, 2010, Gee Vigna and her husband discovered a horrible sight in the room of their seventeen-year-old daughter, Nicky.

"We had no idea she was using any drugs," Gee tells Daily RFT.

Nicky had overdosed on heroin. Doctors pointed to track marks on her arm.

"That was the beginning of what I would call the fight of our life," Gee says.

It's a fight that her family lost, despite their best efforts to help their daughter. On January 3, 2013, Nicky, at age twenty, overdosed again, and this time, she did not recover. Now, Gee is trying to raise awareness about the growing problem of what she says is "the silent killer" that's destroying families and communities across the country.

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Last night, three young teenage boys were shot in the Carr Square neighborhood and taken to a local hospital where they are all in serious condition.

Two of the shooting victims are fourteen years old, and the other is fifteen years old.

One of the victims told police he knew the suspect -- but only by his nickname.

They were not able to tell the police the suspect's real name or address, and the shooter remains at large.

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Students in Shearwater's first graduating class.

Shearwater High School, a public charter school geared toward dropouts and at-risk youth in St. Louis, is closing its doors after three years in operation, shedding light on the obstacles facing the most vulnerable students and the educators trying to help them graduate.

"Young people are continuing to hemorrhage out of our public-school system at an alarming rate," Stephanie Krauss, president and CEO of Shearwater Education Foundation, tells Daily RFT. "We have to figure this out."

Krauss, whose efforts RFT chronicled in a 2009 cover story on the dropout crisis in St. Louis, says that the model was just not working, and it is time to reevaluate.

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When police responded to calls for a shooting early this morning, they were already too late.

Jermaine Johnson, twenty, was lying unconscious at the corner of Darby Street and Natural Bridge Avenue, police say. He had suffered multiple gunshot wounds to his body -- and police pronounced him dead on the scene.

He is the 34th homicide victim this year in the city of St. Louis.

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