Rope lines, numbered tickets and walkie-talkies for store employees could help control frenzied bargain-hunters, police said in a report issued after a Wal-Mart worker was killed in a Black Friday stampede. Nassau County police released recommendations Wednesday, two weeks after meeting with 75 Long Island retailers about how to stage major sales events safely. Retailers and police had debated who ...

The family of Jdimytai Damour, the 34-year-old Wal-Mart worker trampled to death on Black Friday at a Long Island mall, has named mall owner Vornado Realty Trust in its wrongful death suit filed yesterday in Bronx Supreme Court against Wal-Mart Stores Inc., according to the Los Angeles Times. Damour was trampled to death early Friday morning after about 2,000 ...

Police are reviewing surveillance videos of a post-Thanksgiving shopper stampede that trampled a suburban Wal-Mart worker to death, but they acknowledge it may be difficult to bring criminal charges. Nassau County police and Wal-Mart Stores Inc. said no new information was available Saturday on the employee ...