Nantucket police are appealing for help in solving the brutal killing of a family pet at a house party last month after encountering a "wall of silence" while interviewing some of the partygoers, officials said.

May 24 this year marks the fourth anniversary of the death in Toronto of a Filipino-Canadian, Jeffrey Reodica, then a 17-year-old honor student at Scarborough's Jean Vanier Catholic School.

Writer/director Daniel Stamm's A Necessary Death takes the character-as-cameraman approach of Cloverfield and Diary of the Dead and applies it to a more intimate horror story -- the story of a suicide.

Death Notices for Tuesday, April 22: Solomon Barnhouse, Orland Hoppe, Lillian Lang, Louis Marler Jr., Ruth Massmann and Raymond Mendenhall.

WASHINGTON, May 15 (UPI) -- The death gap between U.S. adults with less than high school education and those with college degrees increased rapidly from 1993 to 2001, a U.S. study said.