Discount retailer Dollar Tree says it’s looking at strategic options for the Family Dollar stores that it owns, including a possible sale of the segment.

Dollar Tree will close nearly 1,000 stores and swung to a surprise fourth quarter loss as the discount retailer took a related $1.07 billion goodwill impairment charge.

Ground cinnamon sold in U.S. discount stores is contaminated with high levels of lead and should be discarded.

Detroit police are seeking information about a man who attempted to steal money from a Family Dollar on Detroit's east side.

The Jacksonville sheriff says the gunman who killed three people at a Dollar General used to work at a dollar store and had stopped in at one before a security guard’s presence apparently led him elsewhere.

U.S. regulators have announced a settlement with the company that runs Dollar Tree and Family Dollar aimed at improving worker safety at thousands of the bargain stores across the country.

Here is a complete list of last week's recalls from the FDA, USDA, and the CPSC.

Several Advil products sold at Family Dollar stores are being recalled after they were stored outside their labeled temperature requirements, according to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration.

The Detroit Police Department is seeking information about a person of interest involved in an armed robbery at Family Dollar.

Three people are sentenced to prison for the rest of their lives for the shooting death of a Family Dollar security guard.

A 23-year-old store clerk was shot in the leg during an attempted robbery on Detroit east side.

Police are searching for a suspect involved in an armed robbery at a Detroit Family Dollar.

A man grabbed a worker by her apron at one store and then fired a shot into the air at another while stealing money from both businesses in Detroit, police said.

Family Dollar is recalling condoms, pregnancy tests and other other-the-counter medical devices because they were stored outside of labeled temperature requirements.

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Family Dollar has issued a recall covering more than 400 products sold at its stores in almost every state, including Michigan.

Police are seeking information about an armed robbery that happened at the Family Dollar store off West Grand Boulevard on May 30.

Dollar Tree and Family Dollar are recalling more than one million hot glue guns after receiving reports of the products malfunctioning and posing fire and burn hazards.

A man suspected of robbing two dollar stores on Wednesday in Detroit has been arrested, police announced Friday.

Detroit police are searching for a man they say robbed two dollar stores in less than an hour.

Dollar stores are a great inexpensive option, but there’s a catch: Not everything at the discount store is a good buy.

Two men who were wearing GPS tethers that recorded their exact locations carjacked three people at gunpoint in separate locations around Detroit, officials said.

DETROIT – Police are investigating after three suspects broke into a Family Dollar store on Detroit’s east side and stole a safe. The incident happened on Sept. 12 at 4 a.m. at a Family Dollar store in the 9900 block of East Jefferson Avenue and stole the store’s safe. Police said there was money in the safe. Police said the suspects were all men who were wearing masks and gloves. Anyone with information is asked to contact Detroit Police Department’s 7th Precinct by calling 313-596-5740 or CRIMESTOPPERS at 1-800-SPEAK-UP.

ECORSE, Mich. – A man was killed and a woman was injured in a shooting late Wednesday night outside a Family Dollar store in Ecorse. The shooting happened in the parking lot of the business on Southfield Road near Jefferson Avenue. Police said a man and a woman were sitting in the car just before 9 p.m. when the man was shot and killed. Family Dollar EcorseThe man is believed to have been in his 30s. Anyone with information on this deadly shooting needs to contact the Ecorse Police Department or Crime Stoppers at 800-SPEAK-UP.

EASTPOINTE, Mich. – A man told an Eastpointe Family Dollar cashier he was armed when he robbed the store Monday morning. Police said the man entered the store at 18040 9 Mile Road at 9:15 a.m. He told the cashier he had a gun and kept his hand in his pocket as he demanded cash, police said. When the cashier handed the man money, he fled in an unknown direction. He was wearing a zip-up black hoodie, black pants, black shoes and dark-colored glasses.

FILE - In this May 26, 2016, file photo, a shopper searches her purse outside a Dollar Tree store in Encinitas, Calif. Dollar Tree Inc. on Tuesday, Nov. 26, 2019, reported fiscal third-quarter profit of $255.8 million. (AP Photo/Lenny Ignelzi, File)CHESAPEAKE, VA – Dollar Tree reported weak third quarter profits and trimmed its full-year guidance citing higher tariffs. Dollar Tree said if fully implemented, the tariffs will increase their costs by $19 million in the fourth quarter, or 6 cents per share. Dollar Tree is also still working to integrate its Family Dollar businesses, acquired in 2015 for almost $9 billion. Even with the sharp decline Tuesday, Dollar Tree shares are still up about 12% in the last 12 months.

(WDIV)DETROIT - Detroit police are searching for two men who robbed the manager of a dollar store on the city's east side, officials said. The robbery happened at 8:03 p.m. Oct. 3 at the Family Dollar at 9911 East Jefferson Avenue in Detroit, according to authorities. The men robbed the manager of the store and ran away north on Pennsylvania Street, police said. One man was wearing a green hooded sweatshirt, black pants and black shoes, police said. The other man was wearing a black hooded sweatshirt, camouflage pants and white shoes, according to authorities.

Tampa (WFTS) - ABC Action News has learned that the Florida Attorney General has already fielded hundreds of complaints about price gouging while people prepare for Hurricane Dorian. A company spokesperson sent ABC Action News a brief statement on Friday after we asked about the price inflation. Doyel also notified the state's price gouging hotline and says she spoke directly with Florida AG Ashley Moody. Individuals or businesses found guilty of price gouging could face fines up to $1,000 per violation, or up to a maximum of $25,000 per day. I have activated Florida's Price Gouging Hotline in an effort to prevent gouging, so Floridians can afford essential items now.

Yet a wave of cities and towns have passed laws curbing the expansion of Dollar General and Dollar Tree, which bought Family Dollar in 2015. Advocates of tighter controls on dollar stores say the big chains intentionally cluster multiple stores in low-income areas. Dollar General and its dollar store rivals mostly sell snacks, drinks, canned foods and vegetables, household supplies and personal care products at rock-bottom prices. Dollar stores can open quickly in new areas because they are small and have lower operating costs than grocery stores. Family-owned grocery stores operate at razor-thin profit margins and dollar stores can pressure them with lower prices, experts say.

DEARBORN HEIGHTS, Mich. - Dearborn Heights police are searching for a woman accused of stealing more than $80 worth of Tide Pods from a dollar store. Police said the woman walked into the Family Dollar on Van Born Road at 1:24 p.m. Saturday. She went to the back of the store and placed two containers of Tide Pods, worth a total of $80.56, inside a black purse, according to authorities. She left the store and the manager called the Dearborn Heights Police Department, officials said. Anyone who recognizes the woman is asked to call Dearborn Heights police at 313-277-7716.