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A zoning change proposed for four lots in Idlewylde would bring an end to contested plans for a dollar-store discount shop along Sherwood Road, south of Towson.

Eleven Family Dollar stores in Maryland will be sold to Sycamore Partners, a New York-based private equity firm, under an agreement reached as part of Dollar Tree Inc.'s planned $8.5 billion purchase of Family Dollar Stores Inc., Maryland's attorney general announced Thursday.

Dollar General will open in Cockeysville on Saturday. The store at 558 Cranbrook Road will give away $10 Dollar General gift cards to the first 50 shoppers

A Family Dollar store is slated to open this fall as an anchor tenant in Cold Spring Shopping Center in Baltimore.

An $8.5 billion merger of dollar stores to create North America's biggest discount chain could mean stiff competition for mass discounters such as Wal-Mart Stores Inc. but less choice and higher prices for shoppers.