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The federal government sued Denny's restaurants, alleging that a manager who had a leg amputated was wrongly fired because her superiors believed she posed a safety risk. The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission filed the class-action suit accusing Denny's of discriminating against a manager at a restaurant in the Baltimore suburb of Fullerton and other, unnamed employees. The suit seeks a court order requiring Denny's Inc.

Doctors recommend against eating more than 2,300 milligrams of sodium a day. Order a Denny's double cheeseburger and you'll consume 3,880 milligrams in one sitting, almost double the suggested daily allowance of salt. Denny's meals "are dangerously high in sodium," according to a lawsuit filed Thursday by a New Jersey man with the support of the Center for Science in the Public Interest, a nonprofit group active in nutrition and food safety issues.

This city's historic landmarks include the majestic St. James Cathedral, the elegant Paramount Theatre and, best-known of all, the towering syringe known as the Space Needle. Soon this list may include a Denny's. This month, a city board opened the way to give historic landmark status to a recently closed Denny's restaurant in northwest Seattle, a decision that has left some questioning the city's selection process.

An 18-year-old man was killed and another man wounded in a shootout early Friday outside a Denny's restaurant in Anaheim, marking the third fatal shooting in as many days at one of the chain's restaurants in California. On Wednesday, a transient went on a shooting spree in a Pismo Beach Denny's, killing two and wounding a couple before turning the gun on himself. On Friday, authorities were still investigating a motive.

Denny's Corp., a chain of more than 1,500 family restaurants worldwide, said it planned to eliminate trans fats from its menu items as early as the first half of 2007. The plan includes changing frying oil and margarine used in food preparation, and working with food manufacturers, the Spartanburg, S.C.-based company said. Restaurants including Taco Bell Corp. and KFC, both units of Yum Brands Inc., have said they would eliminate trans fats. Burger King Holdings Inc.

Denny's Corp., a restaurant chain targeted in racial discrimination lawsuits in recent years, named former PepsiCo Inc. executive Louis Laguardia to the new position of vice president for talent acquisition and diversity. Laguardia was vice president of staffing and diversity for PepsiCo's Frito-Lay North America. He has more than 25 years of experience in human resources, diversity and general management, Spartanburg, S.C.-based Denny's said in a statement.

Denny's Corp. said Tuesday that it had agreed to pay $7.75 million to former California employees to settle a lawsuit that alleged that the restaurant chain failed to pay them for unused vacation time. The company, based in Spartanburg, S.C., was sued by the California Department of Industrial Relations in September 2002 over alleged violations of state law regarding payment of accrued vacation upon termination of employment. Denny's will pay installments of $3.5 million on Nov. 30 and about $4.

Denny's restaurants suspended the manager of an outlet in Miami on Wednesday after a group of six black and three white prison officers said he refused to serve them and told them: "You guys don't look right together." The restaurant chain said the manager will be fired if an independent investigation finds him guilty of racial discrimination.

Four years after settling a discrimination lawsuit for $46 million, Denny's apologized to 40 black sixth-graders and their chaperons who said they were denied service at a Florida restaurant. The group from Baltimore was on a field trip to Disney World when they stopped at the Denny's in Ocoee, Fla. They said they were not greeted or seated.

Five black customers have filed a discrimination lawsuit against a Denny's restaurant, saying they were seated behind a partition and ignored by waitresses. The restaurant chain denied any wrongdoing. The five filed the lawsuit in U.S. District Court in Orlando, WESH-TV reported. The black customers said they were ignored while several customers came in and were served. When the black customers were finally served, their waitress got their order wrong.