"Family Dollar Stores Hit with $41M Fine for Rodent Infestation"

Family Dollar Stores has been ordered to pay a record $41.6 million fine for using a rodent-infested warehouse to distribute goods to over 400 stores across the South. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration found live and dead rodents, feces, urine, and evidence of gnawing and nesting at the distribution center in Arkansas. The company pleaded guilty to causing goods to be "adulterated while being held under insanitary conditions" and must meet corporate reporting guidelines for the next three years. Dollar Tree, which owns Family Dollar Stores, has fully cooperated with the investigation and plans to invest $100 million to improve the distribution center and create 300 jobs.