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the rules to which all NBA owners agreed to as a condition of owning their team."
• Shelly Sterling's attorney, Pierce O'Donnell, responded to the NBA's statement.
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Growth of texting as crisis negotiation tool challenges police accustomed to taking voice cues
• The suspect in a gas station robbery and 100 mph chase kept pointing his handgun to his head, and police negotiator Andres Wells was doing all he could to keep the man from committing suicide. But he kept cutting Wells' phone calls short.
• Then, about 10 minutes after the last hang up, Wells' cellphone chimed. It was a text -- from the suspect.
• "Please call Amie," the message said, followed by the number of the man's girlfriend.
• Wells was taken aback. In three years as a negotiator with the Kalamazoo, Michigan, police, he'd always relied on spoken give-and-take, taking cues from a person's tone of voice, the inflections, emotions. He'd never thought about negotiating via text.
• "It had never even been brought up at one of our training," Wells recalled of the 2011 case.
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Today in History
The Associated Press
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• Today is Monday, May 12, the 132nd day of 2014. There are 233 days left in the year.
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• Today's Highlight in History:
• On May 12, 1949, the Soviet Union lifted the Berlin Blockade, which the Western powers had succeeded in circumventing with their Berlin Airlift.
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• On this date:
• In 1780, during the Revolutionary War, the besieged city of Charleston, South Carolina, surrendered to British forces.
• In 1870, an act creating the Canadian province of Manitoba was given royal assent, to take effect in July.
• In 1914, author and broadcast journalist Howard K. Smith was born in Ferriday, (Continued on page 29)
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