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.

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.

Police said that officers responded to 918 W. Colonial Drive — the site of a Family Dollar store — finding “an unresponsive individual behind the location.”

Family Dollar is voluntarily recalling a wide range of over-the-counter medical products because they were stored outside of labeled temperature requirements, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration said.

An investigation into a shoplifting-related worker death at a Family Dollar store in Orlando led OSHA to present more than $300,000 in fines for violations, according to the agency.

A man has been arrested in the death of a 44-year-old who was fatally shot at a Family Dollar location in Orange County, according to the sheriff’s office.

One man died and another was injured in a shooting at a Family Dollar location in Orlando, according to the Orange County Sheriff’s Office.

Family Dollar shipped the now-recalled, FDA-regulated products to 404 stores in the south and southeast last month.

ORLANDO, Fla. – Orlando police arrested a man on New Year’s Eve accused of shooting a person in the parking lot of a Family Dollar store. Anthony Revaughn Louis, 25, is accused of shooting the victim near the store on Pine Hills Road on Dec. 28 around 2:30 a.m.Police said they arrived at the scene and the victim was taken to an area hospital in stable condition. Louis was arrested Dec. 31. He is charged with attempted first-degree murder and shooting into a structure. [TRENDING: How to get vaccine in Florida | New attractions coming to Central Florida theme parks]

A man and a woman were arrested Sunday after they robbed a Family Dollar in Sumter County, according to the Sumter County Sheriffs Office. According to authorities, a man entered the Family Dollar in Lake Panasoffkee and demanded money from the store. The man left the store with an undisclosed amount of money, and took off with a woman who was driving a car, according to reports. Authorities said an eyewitness followed the couple as they fled the scene of the crime, and the eyewitness called law enforcement. Both of the suspects were caught by law enforcement.