Tampa Bay briefs

By Times staff reports
© St. Petersburg Times
published January 10, 2002

Institute to conduct mock fish kill in harbor

ST. PETERSBURG -- If you see a bunch of dead fish in Bayboro Harbor this morning, don't worry. Researchers from the Florida Marine Research Institute are conducting a mock fish kill starting at 8:45 a.m. They will dump fish into the water, and participants from various local, state and federal agencies will identify, measure and collect the fish. The mock fish kill is designed to train investigators in how to handle a real fish kill, as well as to establish a protocol for future investigations.

Classes set for workers who were laid off, fired

ST. PETERSBURG -- An information session for Operation Paycheck, the state-funded program for employees who have been laid off or fired because of the economic downturn, will be held from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. today at the St. Petersburg College Caruth Health Education Center, 7200 66th St. N.

The program offers applicants an opportunity to take classes at St. Petersburg College and Pinellas Technical Education Centers.

Classes range from automotive services technology to emergency medical technicians. For information, call (727) 524-4344.

Death row inmate wins hearing on new attorneys

TALLAHASSEE -- An inmate facing execution this month for a 1977 murder in Tarpon Springs will receive a hearing on his late-hour request for new attorneys.

The state Supreme Court on Wednesday ordered a trial judge to hold a hearing into Amos King's handwritten request filed Tuesday. It accused his current lawyers of being "pro-state" and failing to use new evidence he gave them.

Pasco-Pinellas Circuit Judge Susan Schaeffer scheduled a hearing Friday on the request.

King, 47, is scheduled for execution Jan. 24 for the murder of Natalie Brady, a 68-year-old widow who was raped, choked and stabbed in her Tarpon Springs home on March 18, 1977, after King escaped from the Tarpon Springs Community Correctional Center, where he was serving a sentence for larceny of a firearm.

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