Conch Key

A 62-year-old Conch Key fisherwoman who goes by the nickname "Sea Hag" shot a man to death Sunday night after the victim refused to give her a beer, according to the Monroe County Sheriff's Office.

Carolyn Dukeshire, a commercial fisherwoman, is being held on a first-degree murder complaint after allegedly shooting her neighbor, 64-year-old Martin Mazur, five times in the abdomen, back and arm.

A witness to the shooting, Casey Whippo, 30, told deputies he and Mazur were sitting outside Mazur's house at 53 N. Conch Ave. drinking beer when Dukeshire, who lives down the street at 70 Conch Ave., walked around the side of the house and asked if she could have a beer, according to Sheriff's Office spokeswoman Deputy Becky Herrin. When Mazur refused, Dukeshire allegedly shot him repeatedly, hitting him twice in the abdomen, twice in the back and once in wrist.

Bishop

 Huntsville's most prominent murder trial in a generation could take place twice, experts say, unless attorneys for Amy Bishop and the State of Alabama resolve a dispute over who will pay for expert witnesses.

But state officials said late Friday that they may have found a fix, if medicalexperts are willing to wait on deferred payments.

The stakes are high, as prosecutors plan to seek the death penalty when trial begins in September, and a poor provision for the defense would bolster an appeal.

Bishop's attorneys are arguing that the Harvard-trained biologist, who is charged with fatally shooting three colleagues at the University of Alabama in Huntsville, is not guilty by reason of insanity.