For 15 years, the Ronald McDonald statue was a small sign of happiness for families facing medical nightmares — until vicious vandals burned and beheaded the cheery clown, house staffers said.

A group of artists kidnapped a Ronald McDonald statue and staged a spoof Al Qaeda-style hostage YouTube video. Their demands? That McDonald’s answer questions on how it produces their food.

Two days ago we kidnapped Ronald McDonald from a McDonald’s Restaurant ... McDonalds chose not to talk to them so, unfortunately, the statue was beheaded by a guillotine. That brings us to ...

BURLINGTON, Vt. – Vandals have burned, decapitated and cut the feet off a smiling Ronald McDonald statue that sat outside a Ronald McDonald House in Vermont. The statue had occupied a bench ...

Officials say vandals burned, decapitated and cut the feet off the namesake statue that had sat outside a Ronald McDonald House in Burlington. A smiling Ronald McDonald statue occupied a bench ...

The Ronald McDonald statue had been a comfort for sick kids and families for 15 years before it was beheaded and burned in the fall. Ronald has now made it all the way back. A new Ronald McDonald ...

CHICAGO (CBS) --Vandals decapitated a statue of Ronald McDonald outside the Museum of Broadcast Communications overnight in the River North neighborhood. Workers arriving for work Tuesday morning ...

An iconic life-size statue of Ronald McDonald sitting at the end of the bench, which has welcomed thousands of customers for over two decades, has been stolen from a McDonald's Restaurant located ...

A new Ronald ... McDonald House for sick children and families needing to be close to the University of Vermont Children’s Hospital. The Burlington Free Press reports that the new smiling statue ...

A Ronald McDonald statue was beheaded by guillotine in a stunt performed by the Food Liberation Army, or FLA. The Finnish activist group demanded that the fast food giant answer a list of eight ...

BURLINGTON, Vt. (AP) — Vandals have burned, decapitated and cut the feet off a smiling Ronald McDonald statue that sat outside a Ronald McDonald House in Vermont. The statue had occupied a bench ...

(AP) — A new Ronald ... in the McDonald’s restaurant business for nearly 30 years before he sold his four locations in February. This story has been corrected to show that the statue was ...