Somerset Police arrested a Fall River man in Swansea Monday for allegedly breaking into and stealing from a Dollar Tree store where he worked as a manager.
The former Walgreens store at the corner of Acushnet Avenue and Tarkiln Hill Road in New Bedford has been vacant since 2022, but Dollar Tree is coming.
Attorney General Maura Healey has issued $1.5 million in penalties to the company that owns Family Dollar stores for allegedly violating labor laws on meal breaks in store locations statewide.
Dollar Tree recently announced that it has been forced to go up in price to $1.25 at all locations nationwide, including local stores like in New Bedford, Fall River, Wareham and North Dartmouth.
The extra quarter hasn't kicked in on the SouthCoast yet, it seems.
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