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A gunman opened fire during a thwarted robbery at a McDonald's restaurant Monday, killing a 9-year-old girl before an off-duty police officer mortally wounded him, authorities said. The gunman entered the restaurant through the employees entrance about 3 p.m. and handed a note to the manager, who then told employees they were being robbed, police said. An off-duty Barstow officer eating in the restaurant tried to confront the gunman, who opened fire, Police Lt.

McDonald's Corp. has finally selected a new trans-fat-free oil for cooking its famous french fries after years of testing, the fast-food chain said last week. While it has developed a healthier new oil, the company is not saying when it will be used in all 13,700 U.S. restaurants. Spokesman Walt Riker said the oil is in more than 1,200 U.S. restaurants after extensive testing. He said the new oil is canola-based and has corn and soy oils.

A French appeals court upheld a radical farmer's three-month prison sentence for ransacking a McDonald's to protest unchecked globalization. Jose Bove, a 47-year-old sheep farmer, has become a symbol of anti-globalization activists in France and abroad since he led an attack on a McDonald's restaurant under construction in the southern town of Millau in August 1999.

For better and for worse -- mostly worse -- McDonald's has had a profound effect on the American landscape. Its golden (actually yellow) arches, it's said, are a brand icon more recognized than the Christian cross. Its cookie-cutter buildings have turned vast stretches of suburbia into seas of asphalt. Its very name has become synonymous with garish design, which is why we call those bloated houses that cram far too much square footage onto tiny suburban lots "McMansions."

A children's "playland" consisting of slides and mazes will soon be built at the McDonald's restaurant on Valley View Street. The City Council this week unanimously agreed to give McDonald's the go-ahead for the addition though it will force the fast-food restaurant to decrease parking. Six parking spaces will be lost but officials said that since the restaurant is on the edge of a shopping center at Ball Road and Valley View Street, there's plenty of parking nearby.

A fast-food chain said Monday it has agreed to use a Spanish mission-style architecture to redesign a proposed McDonald's restaurant at Lankershim Boulevard and Riverside Drive, following the requests of nearby residents. After meeting with the Studio City Residents Assn., which had several reservations about the restaurant, McDonald's Corp. officials also agreed to do the following: * Improve proposed landscaping around the restaurant and plant trees in the parking lot.

McTired? McHarried? McRushed? The folks who gave the world Shamrock Shakes and Big Macs think that they have the answer: McCurb. At a McDonald's restaurant in Studio City, waiters and waitresses hustle out to parked cars to jot down orders and deliver Big Macs. "It reminds people of years ago when they had carhops," store manager Miazel Harris said. "The only thing we're missing are the skates."

Two McDonald's workers who led the nation's first strike against the hamburger chain went to the National Labor Relations Board on Monday to try to unionize their local restaurant. The workers joined leaders of Teamsters Local 416 and presented 21 union sign-up cards at the board's Cleveland office. They believe the cards are enough to force a representation vote among the approximately 40 non-management workers at the suburban Macedonia, Ohio, restaurant.

Two Los Angeles families filed a lawsuit against a McDonald's restaurant in Colton, alleging that it refused to serve them because they are black. The McDonald's manager told the three adults and nine children that the restaurant had had "problems with black people lately," according to the complaint filed this week in San Bernardino County Superior Court. Karen Garcia, a spokeswoman for McDonald's, said she could not comment because she has not seen the lawsuit.

An important part of fast-food history is in the process of being preserved. The nation's oldest surviving McDonald's restaurant--at Lakewood Boulevard and Florence Avenue in Downey--is going to reopen. The move is bound to delight McDonald's aficionados around the country who were upset when the restaurant closed. The restaurant is slated to open for business again Dec. 15.

Shattered plate glass windows and spray-painted slogans on a McDonald's restaurant in Torrance appeared to be the latest in a string of attacks by militant animal rights activists, police said Monday. Officers responding to a burglar alarm Sunday morning found "McMurder Killers" and "ALF" painted on a window of the restaurant at Crenshaw Boulevard and Skypark Drive.

Morgan Spurlock stands at the corner of Beverly and Rampart boulevards at the site of the Original Tommy's hamburger stand, and he's got something surprising to say: "A chili cheeseburger and chili cheese fries, please." The 33-year-old New Yorker's order may not sound unusual in a nation where one in four people dines at a fast-food restaurant every day.

Oprah Winfrey's personal trainer Bob Greene can't remember the last time he visited a McDonald's. Nor is he a particular fan of burgers. But he is now a key part of McDonald's huge marketing campaign to persuade customers that it is serious about offering healthier products. Enlisting the fitness guru is McDonald's latest salvo in the ongoing battle among fast-food giants which traditionally have tried to win customers through price wars.

The wink on Speedee's smiling face said it all Monday as the 50th anniversary of the world's oldest McDonald's restaurant was celebrated in Downey. The 60-foot-high burger chef sign has survived company buyouts, economic slumps and a devastating earthquake to remain standing outside the hamburger stand said to be responsible for the "Golden Arches" known to fast-food fans everywhere.

It's a McDonald's vision of the future: an automated fryer cooks and bags French fries while a vertical grill machine removes patties from the freezer and prepares them -- no burger flipper needed. Out front, customers choose between speedy counter lines and self-service kiosks that send orders straight to the tables of harried moms and their kids. And everywhere hover friendly staffers, computer-trained in McDonald's hospitality.

After a three-hour public hearing, a planning official said Tuesday he may decide in several weeks on a plan to build a McDonald's restaurant in Glassell Park, but gave no hint about how he might rule. "I have no idea what I'll do," city zoning administrator Albert Landini said after supporters and opponents argued the merits of the outlet proposed for the 3900 block of Eagle Rock Boulevard.

After a three-hour public hearing, a planning official said Tuesday he may decide in several weeks on a plan to build a McDonald's restaurant in Glassell Park, but gave no hint about how he might rule. "I have no idea what I'll do," city zoning administrator Albert Landini said after supporters and opponents argued the merits of the outlet proposed for the 3900 block of Eagle Rock Boulevard.

A small bomb exploded in a McDonald's restaurant in the Beirut suburb of Dora, wounding five people and highlighting the rising anti-American sentiment in Lebanon due to the Iraq war. The blast also damaged the restaurant, officials said. Police said they later found a car in the restaurant's parking lot that contained 121 pounds of TNT but had not exploded because the detonator failed. There have been several pro-Iraq demonstrations in front of the U.S.

A small bomb exploded in a McDonald's restaurant in the Beirut suburb of Dora, wounding five people and highlighting the rising anti-American sentiment in Lebanon due to the Iraq war. The blast also damaged the restaurant, officials said. Police said they later found a car in the restaurant's parking lot that contained 121 pounds of TNT but had not exploded because the detonator failed. There have been several pro-Iraq demonstrations in front of the U.S.

A federal judge Thursday sentenced a man to two years in prison for a multimillion-dollar scam involving McDonald's promotional games such as "Monopoly" and "Who Wants to Be a Millionaire." Two other men were sentenced to six months of home arrest, and another to probation. The four men were the latest to be sentenced in a broad probe into the years-long conspiracy, which prosecutors say involved more than $20 million in fraudulently redeemed game pieces.