Investigation of NY Wal-Mart trampling death ends

May. 6, 2009
A New York prosecutor is ending a criminal investigation into the post-Thanksgiving trampling death of a temporary employee at a Long Island Wal-Mart. Nassau County District Attorney Kathleen Rice's office says the prosecutor and a Wal-Mart vice president...
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