Dollar Tree Inc.

Reports: Initial jobless claims for week ended May 18, 7:30 a.m.; PMI manufacturing flash index for May, 7:58 a.m.; FHFA housing price index for March, 8 a.m.; New home sales for April, 9 a.m.; Mortgage rates for week ended May 23, 9 a.m.; Natural gas...

Newport News-based Huntington Ingalls Industries Inc., Smithfield Foods Inc, Norfolk Southern Corp. and Dollar Tree Inc. made the Fortune 500 list released Monday, the Virginian-Pilot reported. Read the Virginian-Pilot story here. Read the full list...

Karl Clifford Ringler, 44, Salisbury, died suddenly June 4, 2011, at Conemaugh Meyersdale Medical Center. Born June 11, 1966, in Meyersdale, he is the son of Karl A. and Donna Kay (Gauntz) Ringler, Salisbury. In addition to his parents, he is survived...

The Dollar Store is recalling about 682,000 Pumpkin, Ghost and Skull Halloween Lanterns.  The bulb in the battery-operated lanterns can overheat, posing fire and burn hazards to consumers.  The CPSC has received one report of the bulb in a lantern...

Prompted by Illinois Atty. Gen. Lisa Madigan, officials at Dollar Tree Stores Inc. on Wednesday announced plans to remove two toys featuring magnets from its nearly 3,300 stores and put orders for more of the toys on hold pending an internal...

Monday: -- July existing-home sales -- Earnings: Harmony Gold Mining Co. Tuesday: -- Federal Reserve meeting minutes -- August consumer confidence -- Earnings: Aruba Networks Inc.; Borders Group Inc.; Corinthian Colleges Inc.; Micros Systems Inc.; Pike...

Illinois Atty. Gen. Lisa Madigan on Thursday called on the federal Consumer Product Safety Commission to classify rare-earth magnets as a "banned hazardous product" when used in children's toys. A Tribune investigation, published in May, uncovered red...

They've hit stores from Spanaway to Seattle and from Bremerton to Bellingham.  They are thieves targeting Dollar Tree Stores. Surveillance video shows the pair of suspected burglars during one of nine store break-ins. In one of the shots, you can see...

WASHINGTON -- One in three toys contains "medium" to "high" levels of harmful chemicals such as lead, cadmium, arsenic and PVC, a study released Wednesday by The Ecology Center in Ann Arbor, Mich., and published at HealthyToys.org, has revealed. Lead...

Braedyn Woodring intended to quit her second job when her graduate classes picked up, she really did. But a sign from above changed her mind. It said: Regular unleaded, $2.60. And that was last month, when her paycheck for a part-time job covered half...