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Tuesday, May 4, 2004

Officials: Deputies felt lives in peril
ST. PETERSBURG - First, the white pickup slammed into the driver's side door of the cruiser, pinning a Pinellas sheriff's deputy inside.


Briefs
Cocaine seizure exceeds 8,000 pounds
The U.S. Coast Guard cutter Venturous on Monday returned to its home port of St. Petersburg after a 45-day counter-drug patrol in the western Caribbean that resulted in the seizure of more than 8,000 pounds of cocaine.
Man charged with murder in shooting
ST. PETERSBURG - Detroy Antico Mathis, 27, of St. Petersburg was charged with first-degree murder in the shooting death of a man during a dispute between two groups Thursday night.
Man facing eviction kills self, police say
LEALMAN - A man shot himself to death Monday after Pinellas County sheriff's deputies arrived to serve an eviction notice.
Woman shot in head at home
ST. PETERSBURG - An 18-year-old woman was shot in the head early Monday in what her boyfriend called an accident before he disappeared, police said.
Journalism department earns accreditation
ST. PETERSBURG - The journalism department at the University of South Florida St. Petersburg has become the first department to earn separate accreditation from the main Tampa campus.