Updated Thursday, Jan. 22, 6:15 p.m. EST: In a statement, McDonald’s USA told The Root that it had not seen the lawsuit but would be reviewing the matter “carefully.”  “We have not seen the lawsuit, and cannot comment on its allegations, but will review the matter carefully,” the statement read. “McDonald’s has a long-standing history of embracing the…

A 19-year-old suspect was fatally shot by St. Louis police after he allegedly got out of a stolen car holding a gun and confronted the responding officers Wednesday night, Chief Sam Dotson confirmed, according to the St. Louis Post-Dispatch. Police patrolling the neighborhood had reportedly been following the car, a red Chevrolet Monte Carlo that…

A high school girls’ basketball coach in Cobb County, Ga., is facing multiple charges after she allegedly bit another coach in the face twice and threatened to beat the man, even throwing a chair inside a school office, the Atlanta Journal-Constitution reports. Melonie Joyce Martin, who coaches the South Cobb High School girls’ team, was…

Amber Vinson, the second nurse at the Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital in Dallas to contract Ebola from “patient zero” Thomas Duncan, will continue to help find a way to battle the deadly virus by donating her blood in hopes of finding a cure, USA Today reports. Vinson’s blood will be sent to drug-development company XBiotech. “We…

Video and audio of Jerame Reid’s fatal Dec. 30, 2014, encounter with police in Bridgeton, N.J., was released by the Bridgeton Police Department. It shows the 36-year-old’s last minutes alive before officers shot him, NJ.com reports. In the video, police can be seen pulling over a blue Jaguar being driven by Leroy Tutt, 46. Reid…

A Columbia, S.C., cop has been suspended without pay after the leak of a video that appears to show him punching a suspect multiple times, USA Today reports. Officer Tyrone Pugh is facing an internal investigation, as well as a separate investigation by the South Carolina Law Enforcement Division, regarding an incident that happened while,…

Dozens of demonstrators who say they are Stanford University students were arrested Monday evening, Martin Luther King Jr. Day, accused of disrupting traffic on California’s San Mateo-Hayward Bridge during a peaceful protest, the Los Angeles Times reports. According to the report, at least 50 people lined up across the bridge—which has no pedestrian access—a little…

A Maryland woman has pleaded guilty to, but will not be held criminally responsible for, the murders of her best friend’s two toddlers last January during what she believed was an exorcism, WUSA reports. Monifa Sanford suffered from mental illness, leading her to hallucinate and hear voices, one of which she believed to be Satan.…