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An Ohio woman wasn't lovin' it when a Toledo McDonald's ran out of McNuggets. Images from a security video released this week shows Melodi Dushane, 24, punching two employees and smashing a drive-through window after finding out Chicken McNuggets weren't being served during breakfast time. Dushane was caught on tape trying to reach through the window before punching two employees on New Year's Day. She then is seen retreating back to her car to grab a bottle, which she uses to shatter the drive-through window. Dushane then hops back in her car and speeds off. The nugget-loving woman, who said...

A Los Angeles woman was arrested after she offered sexual favors in exchange for chicken McNuggets, Burbank police said. Khadijah Baseer of Los Angeles reportedly opened customers’ car doors in the drive-thru of McDonald’s on the 1700 block of Olive Avenue about 11 p.m. Wednesday, asking for free chicken McNuggets in exchange for sexual favors, Officer Joshua Kendrick said. A man told police Baseer approached him but he refused the offer. Baseer was arrested Wednesday on suspicion of prostitution.

TOLEDO, OH - This is the newly released surveillance video of a New Year’s Day incident. 25-year-old Melodi Dushane drove up to the window about 6:30 a.m. with her neighbor. She ordered McNuggets but was told she could not get them because they started serving breakfast at 2:30.

Wed Aug 24, 2:29 AM ET SYDNEY (AFP) - Muslims who want to live under Islamic Sharia law have been told to get out of Australia. A day after a group of mainstream Muslim leaders pledged loyalty to Australia at a special meeting with Prime Minister John Howard, he and his ministers made it clear that extremists would face a crackdown. Treasurer Peter Costello, seen as heir apparent to Howard, hinted that some radical clerics could be asked to leave the country if they did not accept that Australia was a secular state and its laws were made by parliament....

<p>So then about a month ago the vice president of these beautiful and deeply confused United States, he of the struggling defibrillator and the shockingly nefarious wife and the gnarled calluses from working Dubya's puppet strings, he of the thin-lipped sneer that makes babies cry and women wince and foreign policies crumble like feta cheese in the freezer, well, Dick goes himself a-huntin'.</p>

FROM THE DRUDGE REPORT *************************************** McDonald's Corporation Issues Consumer Advisory on PLAY-DOH McNugget Fri Nov 21 2003 19:49:17 ET McDonald's Corporation today alerted retailers and consumers who purchased Hasbro Inc.'s PLAY-DOH McNugget Mini-tool to remove it from their shelves. Consumers should stop using the toy and call McDonald's Customer Satisfaction Department at 1-800-244-6227 for instructions on returning the toy in return for a McDonald's Gift Certificate. The product meets all federal, voluntary ASTM and Hasbro safety standards, but does not meet McDonald's specifications.

CHICAGO (AP)--McDonald's plans to introduce a new, all white-meat Chicken McNugget with less fat and fewer calories, the latest move by the fast-food giant to offer healthier fare. In the next six weeks, McDonald's will begin offering the smaller McNuggets in all of its 13,600 U.S restaurants, the Chicago Tribune reported in Sunday's edition. The revamped McNuggets are designed to meet a growing consumer preference for chicken breast meat. The change is a big, and some say risky, move for the Oak Brook-based company. Ever since McDonald's first unveiled McNuggets in 1983, they have been one of the restaurant's most...