WTVJ-NBC 6 anchor Kelly Craig got laid off on Monday -- after 19 years with the station. Craig, 49, a part-timer, co-hosted South Florida Today at 11 a.m. weekdays.

''I don't leave on bad terms,'' Craig says. ``I loved everyone at that station from the GM [general manager] to the guys who washed the windows. There are no hard feelings. It's just a sign of the times.''

Also let go: part-time sportscaster Andrea Brody, 42, who worked there on and off since '97, and reporter Joe Carter, 29, whose beat was the web. He did a morning tech segment called ``Carter's Clicks.''

Says Brody: ``Very sad. I'm going to miss the people I worked with, and I'm going to miss the work that they enabled me to do. It's like a break-up where no party really did anything wrong. You had to move on.''

Carter was there less than a year.

NBC6 President and GM Ardyth ''Ardy'' Diercks says: ``We are making some difficult decisions based on the length and severity of the recession and its effects on our business.''

• News exec Tom Doerr, who in February lost his job as VP and station manager of WFOR-CBS 4 in a series of cutbacks, is headed to Houston to become VP and news director at KRIV, a Fox-owned station. Doerr, 57, was news director at WPLG-ABC 10 from '93 to '98. He is married to Gail Bright, 55, a former Channel 10 reporter.

BOOK WITH TEETH

Drs. William E. ''Bill'' Silver, 80, a retired Miami orthodontist, and Richard R. ''Dick'' Souviron, 72, a Coral Gables dentist, are the authors of Dental Autopsy, a 273-page handbook just out from CRC Press, a science and tech book publisher.

The pair are forensic odontologists who work with the Miami-Dade Medical Examiner's department on dental evidence.

(Wikipedia tidbit: ``The first forensic dentist in the United States was Paul Revere who was known for the identification of fallen revolutionary soldiers.'')

The book, with more than 300 color photos, ''goes from crime scene intake to remains exhumation, and also covers work with fresh, decomposed, and skeletal remains,'' says the publisher's blurb.

Silver helped identify victims in the 1996 ValuJet crash, in the 2001 World Trade Center attacks, and in Hurricane Katrina in 2005.

Souviron has testified in hundreds of criminal cases in South Florida and nationally. His historic bite mark testimony against Ted Bundy helped send the serial killer to the electric chair. He also testified against Juan Carlos Chavez, convicted of the 1995 abduction-murder of 9-year-old Jimmy Ryce. Chavez, on Florida's Death Row, lost another appeal last week.

Souviron also performs dental procedures and surgeries on zoo animals -- lions and tigers and bears. The book is geared toward medical examiners, investigators and expert witnesses and lists for $129.95 at crcpress.com.

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