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Actor David Carradine's death from hanging is reminiscent of a deadly game that hundreds of teens play every year, some with fatal consequences.

Wal-Mart Stores has agreed to better control crowds, something it didn’t do in its post-Thanksgiving Day stampede that left one man dead in a Long Island store last year.  It's part of a settlement to avoid a repeat at all 92 New York stores and it also avoids criminal prosecution for the giant retailer.

Three adults and five children were hospitalized with carbon monoxide poisoning in unincorporated San Mateo County, California.  In this case, the adults started a 4,000-watt portable generator after their power was turned off. The three unconscious children were quickly revived with oxygen.  

A wrongful death lawsuit will be filed by the siblings of a man who was hired as a temporary worker at a Long Island Wal-Mart. He was trampled to death when the store opened its doors to about 2,000 bargain-hunters on Black Friday.