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San Antonio Spurs small forward Bruce Bowen was the man of the moment with his 3-pointer 36 seconds from time as the Spurs beat the short-handed Phoenix Suns 88-85 to go up 3-2 in the Western Conference semifinals. The Spurs can close it out in Game 6 Friday night at San Antonio. The Suns, without their all-NBA center Amare Stoudemire and his replacement Boris Diaw, and using largely a six-man rotation, nearly won a grind-it-out kind of game the Suns aren't supposed to be able to play.Tony Parker: No time for a break

Police: Grandma drove with woman on hood  01:52 PM PST on Thursday, March 8, 2007  By DAVID KROUGH, kgw.com Staff VANCOUVER, Wash. - A Vancouver woman was charged with hit-and-run after a wild ride down the street Wednesday. According to Kim Kapp of Vancouver Police, 69-year-old Virginia Martin got into an altercation with another driver after a reported fender bender at Wy'East Middle School while they were picking up kids Wednesday.   Related Content (Please click on the article's link for this video content) Police said the other driver, who was not identified, got out and asked to exchange insurance...

<p>Arabic posting:  "Tomorrow you will watch the destruction of an American Aircraft Carrier"  Within the past half hour, a posting was made on an Arabic language jihad forum that has proven credible in the past.  The posting makes a threat on the USS Kitty Hawk for tomorrow, March 30.  NEIN Director Douglas Hagmann has already notified the appropriate officials in the US military of this posting.</p>

Sometime Saturday, Saddam Hussein was finally convinced that his French friends could not buy him some extra time and that war was coming. And he acted the way he always has -- by unveiling a war plan based on his favourite tactic of "cheat and retreat." Saddam's war plan has three aims. First: Slow down the advance of coalition forces as much as possible. This he hopes to achieve by creating a tidal wave of refugees, including large numbers of army deserters, in the densely populated southern provinces bordering Kuwait. On Monday elements of the IV Army ("Saladin") Corps were...

MSNBC- US State Dep't Warning to All Citizens Overseas to be Prepared to Leave on Short Notice