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Scott Schnuck apologizes.

If you shopped at Schnucks between December and March and are still using the same credit card, you may want to get a new one. Or at the very least, watch your statements and notify your bank of suspicious charges.

So says Scott Schnuck, in yet another video apology for the massive security breach that exposed roughly 2.4 million credit and debit cards at a majority of their stores in the St. Louis metro region and beyond. This latest apology released on Friday comes in the wake of new lawsuits alleging that the local supermarket chain was negligent in their handling of this cyber attack -- and waited too long to alert customers.

And while Schnucks says it blocked access at the end of March and increased security on its payment system, cards used before that date, the company warns, are still vulnerable.

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Scott Schnuck.

Scott Schnuck, chairman and CEO of Schnucks, is really sorry about the massive credit-card security breach at his 79 stores -- and he took out a full-page advertisement in the Sunday Post-Dispatch to express his remorse.

"We realize that with the recent credit card issue we fell short of expectations. On behalf of my family and company, I sincerely apologize to you, our customers and teammates, for how this incident affected you, your friends and family," Schnuck writes in the ad. "I also want you to know what we are doing to ensure it never happens again."

His message also includes a response to one of the central questions raised in a new class-action lawsuit that we wrote about last week: Did Schnucks wait too long to spread the word that millions of customers' credit cards may have been compromised?

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Pinckney Bend Distillery.

One of the more intense fights at the Missouri legislature in the final weeks of the session centers on a proposal to reform government regulation of the alcohol industry; it's controversial enough that some lobbyists and lawmakers in Jefferson City now refer to it as the "liquor wars."

Critics say the legislation on the table would make it harder for suppliers to terminate their relationships with distributors -- with some small distillers opposing, arguing it could hurt their business and that it unfairly interferes with the free market.

Recently, Flotron & McIntosh, a Missouri lobbying firm that opposes the legislation, began communicating with Pinckney Bend Distillery in New Haven, a small company that opposes the legislation -- but it doesn't have the resources to pay for lobbyists.

How, then, can the two work together? Payments of booze -- sort of.

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Did Schnucks wait too long to inform millions of shoppers that they may have had their credit-card information compromised because of a large security breach?

That's the question one attorney and Illinois shopper are raising through a recently filed class-action lawsuit, on view below.

"The key is going to be to determine...when they knew there was a problem and what they did about it," attorney Jeff Millar tells Daily RFT. "If they knew there was a problem on December 10, why wait around until March 30?"

Schnucks officials, however, say the suit has no merit.

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Schnucks has been compromised.

If you shop at Schnucks, you may want to triple-check that your credit-card information was not stolen in what is looking like a fairly massive security breach.

Officials with Schnuck Markets announced today that 2.4 million credit and debit cards used at 79 of its 100 stores may have been compromised. You read that right: 2.4 million.

Yikes.

In a news release, on view below, officials say that credit cards may have been impacted from this "cyber attack" anywhere between December of last year and March 29 of this year. The company also offers a fairly handy FAQ section that addresses your panicky questions like "Will my identity be stolen?!?" and more.

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The alleged owner of the "foreign substance."

What's worse -- pee in your water cooler or a "foreign substance" in your soup?

In Missouri, you apparently can try both! After last week's news that a high school girls basketball team allegedly poured urine into a rival team's water cooler, we have another similar crime story that is potentially even grosser, depending on your fear of the unknown.

Manchester police officials say they are trying to track down a suspect whom witnesses observed "intentionally" placing a "foreign substance" into a soup container at the soup/salad bar of Dierbergs Market.

Did anyone purchase the soup? Video footage below.

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First Lady Michelle Obama has chosen a Walmart in Springfield, Missouri to promote her "Let's Move" anti-obesity campaign.

To what do we owe this honor?

It may not hurt that Missouri is on track to have incredibly high rates of obesity in the coming years, at least according to some studies. And the state's overweight-obesity level has increased nearly thirteen percent over the past fifteen years.

But why Walmart?

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If you deliver pizza in St. Louis, be on the lookout -- there is an epidemic of crime against pizza employees in this town.

At least it sure seems that way with today's news of yet another alleged robbery at gunpoint in which a guy in a Domino's uniform was the victim.

The St. Louis County Police Department reports that last night, an armed robber confronted a deliveryman heading back to his car.

The suspect didn't get much -- but he did get away.

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Screenshot of East St. Louis brawl. Video below.

Last week, a brawl that broke out in an Illinois food stamp office got a lot of attention -- in part, because the chaotic fight was caught in a blurry cell phone video that shows several women hitting each other and security guards struggling to keep the situation under control.

Daily RFT spoke with Michael Floore, the East St. Louis chief of police, who says the investigation into the matter would be further along if people involved in the incident would come forward and talk to the police.

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But in the meantime, he says, it is time for better security measures -- and next time, officials on site should make arrests.

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Don't throw a hotdog down a hallway, chuck it at an eye socket!

Good people of St. Louis, Daily RFT would like to submit for your pleasure the single greatest legal opinion ever written, in the case of John Coomer v. Kansas City Royals Baseball Corporation.

While the case does involve a very serious injury to poor Mr. Coomer, the rest of the details are a scream. It involves a mascot, a hot dog, and one burning philosophical question:

When a man enters a baseball stadium, is he not in essence resigning himself to the possibility of grievous bodily harm by hot dog?

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