Dollar Tree is selling Family Dollar to a pair of private equity firms in a deal worth approximately $1 billion after unsuccessfully trying to incorporate it into its business for a decade.

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.

Discount retailer Dollar Tree is planning to reopen some 99 Cents Only stores that have closed, rebranding them and filling them with their own products.

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.

Eight suspects are currently facing criminal charges for breaking into and stealing safes from Family Dollar stores across metro Houston.

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.

A 20-year-old man has pleaded guilty to possessing a gun during the robbery of a southwest Houston discount store.

A clerk at a Family Dollar in north Houston is recovering after being shot by robbery suspects Monday, officers with the Houston Police Department said.

Keuindarius St. Julien was arrested Wednesday night, but it’s what allegedly happened leading up to the handcuffs being put on that has his family and witnesses in an uproar demanding justice.

Family Dollar is recalling hundreds of products that were stored and shipped “outside of labeled temperature requirements,” according to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration.

Houston police are investigating after they said a store clerk was shot by a robber at a Family Dollar store in northeast Houston Wednesday.

Federal inspectors say they found more than 1,000 rodents inside a Family Dollar distribution facility in Arkansas.

A store clerk was shot in the leg during a reported shooting in southwest Houston, police say.

Police are searching for a man who threw a fit -- and several items of clothing -- while robbing a Family Dollar store in Houston’s Acres Homes area.

A man is dead after someone started shooting outside of a Family Dollar in the Greenspoint area Wednesday, police said.

When Jim’s Supermarket burned down on Friday, Congresswoman Sheila Jackson Lee said she knew it would hurt families here. She helped organize a food giveaway with the Houston Food Bank and is working to secure federal funding to help Jim’s rebuild. Residents told KPRC 2 the food giveaway will help them for a little bit because Jim’s is now gone. Karen Hunyh, whose family owns Jim’s Supermarket, was at the giveaway with other family members. Congresswoman Lee said to help, she is calling on food truck owners to come set up shop near Jim’s to help community members with food availability.

HOUSTON – Police are checking into an alarm glitch at a northwest Houston business. Every night for the past week, Maria Aguirre said sirens and strobe lights are coming from the Family Dollar on Bingle Road. “We’ve been tortured for a week,” Aguirre said. The story has changed every day.”Aguirre said she has also contacted city hall, the Harris County Attorney’s Office and Houston police. Aguirre said the incessant alarm and the strobe lights beaming through her bedroom window is taking a toll mentally.