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HESSTON, Kan. (AP) — Grieving residents of this small Kansas town parked riding lawnmowers with American flags planted beside them along some streets on Saturday and adorned them with "Hesston Hustler Strong" signs in a symbolic reference to the lawn equipment brand from the factory where a gunman killed three co-workers.

The Excel Industries factory nestled in the center of this peaceful community of 3,700 founded by Mennonite farmers has long been more than an economic hub. It is a source of pride that binds people together. It draws about 1,000 workers from small towns around the region and everyone seems to either work there or know someone who does.

The Hustler brand evolved in the 1960s from the tinkering of a man from a nearby town, John Regier, who built a lawn mower that could turn and maneuver more easily to cut grass around obstacles such as trees and winding sidewalks. The company now sells Hustler and Big Dog equipment around the globe and in 2013 earned the Kansas Governor's Exporter of the Year award.

The quiet of Hesston was shattered on Thursday when Cedric L. Ford barged into the plant while about 300 people were working the second shift and opened fire. Authorities say Ford, a convicted felon, was upset after being served hours earlier at the plant with a protection from abuse order to stay away from a former girlfriend. In addition to three people killed, 14 were wounded counting two people shot as he drove to the plant.

It fell to Hesston Police Chief Doug Schroeder, one of a force of just six full-time officers, to rush into the plant without backup and kill the gunman in an exchange of bullets. An off-duty officer drove his pickup truck to the plant and took an injured worker to a nearby ambulance.

The police chief was hailed as a hero in a community where people help each other out. But city leaders on Saturday said there were many heroes that day, including some Excel workers who carried injured people out.

Hesston Mayor David Kauffman said law enforcement converged from around the area. Just weeks earlier, the county had hosted active shooter training for area departments.

"We were prepared as much as we could be for something like this," Kauffman said.

"At Excel, we are like a family," said Rick Lett, a friend since high school of one of the dead, 44-year-old Brian Sadowsky. Lett worked an earlier shift that day and recalled his friend's last words to him as Sadowsky arrived for that fateful second shift: "Have a good evening, brother."

The other workers killed inside the plant were Josh Higbee, 31, and Renee Benjamin, 30.

For some families, multiple generations work at Excel. Karen Mosqueda worked the first shift and her daughter, Ashley, worked the second shift on the day of the attack. The daughter ran out of the building when someone shouted that there was a gunman. Some workers carried an injured colleague outside, taking their belts off as a tourniquet to stop the bleeding before going to nearby homes to get a blanket for him.

Ashley Mosqueda said that seeing the plant again when she attended a candlelight vigil Friday night brought the memories flooding back.

"It is going to be hard to walk back in, to take that first step," she said.

At a Wichita hospital, the son of Dennis Britton Sr. is recovering from a gunshot wound that went through his lower buttock and fractured a femur bone. Dennis Britton Jr. has told his father that when he heard the shooting he dropped to the floor and then couldn't get back up. The shooter made eye to eye contact with him.

The father, a 20-year veteran, recalled how his son looked up at him from the ambulance at the plant and said, "It hurts." But the older Britton knows his son will have more than just his physical injuries to deal with in the coming days.

"It was pretty rough. I don't think it has sunk in yet," the father said. "When it does, he is going to have to do some talking."

People are relying on their faith to get them through the days to comeAmong them are Bruce and Lori Weaver, lifelong Hesston residents, who attended Friday night's candlelight vigil. He is chief financial officer of a machine manufacturing company in nearby Moundridge, and she is an elementary school teacher. But his brother is the Excel's plant information technology manager, and the father of their son's fiancé works in the office.  AP

COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — The spotlight for Democrats' race for the White House is on South Carolina, one week after Hillary Clinton beat Bernie Sanders in Nevada. Polls are open from 7 a.m. to 7 p.m. Clinton is looking to reverse the results of 2008, when Barack Obama captured 55 percent of the vote over her 27 percent. That year, about 23 percent of registered voters cast ballots in the Democrats' presidential primary. More than half of them were minorities. African-Americans make up about 28 percent of South Carolina's nearly 3 million registered voters, while young people ages 18 to 24 account for 8 percent, according to the state Election Commission.

Here are snapshots of voters who went to the polls Saturday:University of South Carolina graduate student Owen Jensen said he voted for Sanders, but he thinks Clinton would do a good job too. It was the first time the 29-year-old Columbia resident had voted in a primary contest.

Jensen, who is white, said he thinks either Sanders or Clinton would do well in November.

"I think we have a strong foothold right now given the wackiness that's going on on the other side," he said. "They seem to be awfully divisive among each other."

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Wanda Scott-Anderson of Columbia said the choice was difficult, but she went with Clinton for her experience. Equal pay for women and health care — specifically for the elderly — were the issues most important to the 58-year-old retiree.

Scott-Anderson, who is black, chose Clinton as the candidate who's "been in the limelight" and "through the battle.""I'll take my chances with her. I know she's been there, and it makes a big difference," said Scott-Anderson, who worked at the state Department of Juvenile Justice. "Talking — and knowing how to talk to these foreign leaders — you have to have that. We have a lot of problems. We definitely don't need a war."

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Elementary school teacher Alicia Newman said she was torn but ultimately voted for Clinton for her electability.

"I don't think Bernie has a shot in a national election, and this election is too important," said the 31-year-old Greenville resident, who is white.

"The next president is probably going to end up appointing the next judge on the Supreme Court. If Hillary is elected, she'll appoint a moderate or liberal judge to replace (Antonin) Scalia."

She worries a conservative court could threaten legal abortion.

"With all the debates, I think Bernie has helped prepare Hillary for November. That's good. But now it's time to get around one candidate and wait for the Republicans," she said.Substitute teacher Regina Duggins of Charleston said she voted for Clinton partly because she could become the first female president.

She said she also liked Clinton's positions on working to end gun violence and deal with the high incarceration rates of young black males.

"I like Bernie Sanders, and he also has been doing things to help the black community as well. But I just think we need someone who is more familiar with the government and how the whole system works," Duggins, who is black, said after voting at a school in downtown Charleston.

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Special education teacher Robert Bennett Terry of Mount Pleasant voted for Bernie Sanders, even though he says Clinton can beat Donald Trump and doesn't think Sanders can.

"However, Bernie Sanders is certainly someone who will bring change to all the people who need change in this great nation of ours," said Terry, who is white, voting at a middle school in suburban Charleston.

"I want to send a message — a strong message — that in the Lowcountry here, many people are hurting. I see that each week. I work with kids in a Title 1 school and their families. They need a break. They need higher wages. They need to have a better life."Markos Young, of suburban Columbia, said he recently went to hear Hillary Clinton at an event in Columbia and "felt more connected to her" on issues such as racial disparities, health care and tuition.

"I was at one point considering Bernie, but she really swayed me on the issues personally affecting me," said Young, who is African-American.

Young, a 40-year-old University of Georgia graduate who works in human resources, said he's considering going to medical school and would have to take out student loans. He said Sanders' stance on free tuition sounds good, but he doesn't believe it. "I would love tuition to be free, but how? Somebody has to pay for it. Where's that coming from?  AP

MEXICO CITY (AP) — Former Mexican President Felipe Calderon on Saturday joined his predecessor in office in unloading on Donald Trump, calling the Republican front-runner's campaign racist and saying his discourse on immigration is fueling anti-American sentiment around the world.

Calderon, a conservative who was president of Mexico from 2006 to 2012, even said he thought Trump was trying to exploit the same social feelings and resentments as did Adolf Hitler.

"I think his logic of exalting white supremacy isn't even acting against immigration — Donald Trump is the descendant of migrants — it is acting and speaking against immigrants who have a different skin color than him, which is frankly racist and is a bit like the exploitation of sensitive fibers that Hitler did in his day," Calderon told reporters after a meeting of the National Action Party, or PAN, in Mexico City.

Calderon's comments parallel those made earlier by former President Vicente Fox, who preceded Calderon in office and also belonged to the PAN party.

In interviews with Univision and Mexican media, Fox called Trump "crazy," a "false prophet" and an embarrassment to his party. When asked about Trump's assertion that he was going to get Mexico to pay for his proposed border wall, Fox used an explicative to make his point the country would never do so.

Trump said Fox ought to be "ashamed of himself" for his vulgarity and demanded an apology.

Trump has angered many Mexicans for his campaign rhetoric denigrating some immigrants as "rapists" who bring crime and drugs to the United States. Threats of mass deportations of Mexicans and other migrants illegally in the country, along with his promise to build a wall separating the nations, have added to the bad feelings.

Calderon said Trump's discourse is "sowing hate" against the United States around the world and this is not is Washington's interest.

During a visit to Mexico's capital, Vice President Joe Biden apologized for the inflammatory rhetoric about Mexico in the U.S. presidential campaign.

"Some of the rhetoric coming from some of the presidential candidates on the other team are I think dangerous, damaging and incredibly ill-advised," Biden said on Thursday. "But here's what I'm here to tell you: They do not, they do not, they do not represent the view of the vast majority of the American people."

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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Republican presidential candidate Marco Rubio and his wife, Jeanette, paid $526,092 in taxes on $2.29 million of income from 2010-2014, his campaign said on Saturday.

Rubio released his tax returns in part to pressure billionaire Donald Trump, the Republican presidential front-runner, to do the same.  REUTERS

Three British tourists found dead at the foot of a surging waterfall in Vietnam fell into a current above the 20 metre drop-off, the director of a tour company told AFP Saturday.

The bodies of two women and one man were retrieved Friday by scores of aid workers who scrambled down cliffs abutting the tiered waterfalls outside of Dalat, a city nestled in Vietnam's central highlands.

The Datanla falls are a popular hub for adventure tourists, with opportunities to rappel on the rocks and luge around the jungle park.

Le Viet Luc, the director of a company that runs tours to the site, said the trio was exploring one of the area's seven waterfalls without proper permission from the agency when they were swept up by a strong current."They fell into the stream of this waterfall and died after being hit by violent waters," he said, adding that their bodies were transferred to Ho Chi Minh City late Friday night.

The British Embassy in Hanoi released a statement on behalf of the family of the man, Christian Sloan, who local media reported to be 25 years old.

"Christian's death is a very sad loss to us. He was a very popular young man, formerly in the Royal Navy, who had many, many friends not just locally but around the world. He lived for life," the statement said.

The embassy declined to release the names of the two women, ages 18 and 25, who entered the country together earlier this month, according to state media.

"Our sympathies are with the families and friends at this difficult time. We are in close contact with local authorities in Vietnam on their behalf," the UK embassy said.

Vietnam and its neighbours in Southeast Asia are travel magnets for young backpackers, but accidents are frequent amid weak law enforcement and scant safety oversight.  AFP

France's top film awards ceremony, the Cesars, celebrated diversity with honours for films about forced marriage and the struggles of life as an immigrant.

The creme de la creme of French showbiz gathered in Paris Friday for the 41st Cesars just two days ahead of its Hollywood equivalent, the Oscars, which have been panned as "too white".

"Mustang", which is up for a foreign film Oscar on Sunday, scooped three awards including for best first feature film.The film by Franco-Turkish director Deniz Gamze Erguven, tells the story of five sisters in rural Turkey forced into arranged marriages.

The best picture accolade went to "Fatima", a movie about an immigrant Moroccan woman struggling to raise her two teenagers in France and working as a cleaning lady to give them the best life possible.

However, with her rudimentary French while her daughters have trouble speaking Arabic, communication is strained, especially with her rebellious younger daughter.

The leading role was played by Algerian Soria Zeroual, a real-life cleaning lady who found herself nominated for best actress alongside French cinema greats Isabelle Huppert and Catherine Deneuve.Michael Douglas became the latest Hollywood star to be honoured with a lifetime achievement award by the Cesars, and delivered his acceptance speech entirely in French.

"It is a little like French cuisine, to make a great dish you need excellent ingredients. To make a great film you need a brilliant screenplay, a great director and exceptional actors," said Douglas.

"I have nearly always had the chance to count on these good ingredients."- 'Lily white' Oscars -

The broad sweep of actors and film themes on offer comes in stark contrast to those up for the Oscars, which have been rocked by controversy after no minority actors were nominated for a second year running.

Several leading black Hollywood stars such as Spike Lee and Will Smith have vowed to boycott the "lily white" awards, while the hashtag #OscarsSoWhite has swept social media.

In France, three women filmmakers were nominated for a Cesar -- none of them won -- while not a single woman got the nod in that category at the Oscars.

The best actress gong went to 10-time Cesar nominee Catherine Frot, 59, for her role in "Marguerite" which tells the tale of a diva who wants to be an opera singer and seems oblivious to the fact that she cannot sing.

Vincent Lindon, 56, scooped the best actor prize for his role in "Le Loi Du Marche" (The Measure Of A Man) in which he plays an unemployed factory worker faced with humiliating job interviews and useless internships.Lindon already won best actor for the film during the 2015 Cannes film festival, and won the Cesar accolade after five previous nominations.

Oscar-winning "Birdman" by Mexican director Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu scooped a Cesar for best foreign film on Friday.

A showbiz satire about the dark side of fame starring Michael Keaton, "Birdman" won four Academy Awards last year including the coveted best picture prize.

The film "Le Petit Prince" (The Little Prince), which has scored huge success abroad and is the first feature film adaptation of the novel by Antoine de Saint-Exupery, won the Cesar award for best animated film.AFP

Germany objected Friday to launching a G20 fiscal and monetary stimulus package to boost global growth, as the major economic powers split over how to battle a menacing downturn.

Government attempts to boost their economies with monetary loosening could be "counterproductive", Wolfgang Schaeuble said at a Group of 20 finance chiefs meeting in Shanghai.

And he said that fiscal stimulus -- essentially governments spending more or cutting taxes -- had run its course, and the main recourse to battling a global slump was reform.

Schaeuble had backing from France, but was at odds with the United States, Britain and China, which all backed the use of monetary and fiscal tools to fight a downturn, as well as structural reforms.

US Treasury Secretary Jacob Lew told reporters: "It's increasingly important to use all the levers of policy that are available, and that means using fiscal levels as well as monetary policy and structural reforms."

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The G20 gathering comes with the global economy assailed on multiple fronts, from slowing growth in host nation China to weak commodity prices. The OECD last week cut its 2016 global growth forecast from 3.3 percent to 3.0 percent.Chinese Premier Li Keqiang told the opening ceremony that the meeting came amid "sluggish world economic recovery and growth."

"Destabilising factors and uncertainties are on the rise," he said in a video message.

China came under pressure ahead of the meeting to push forward with structural reforms to sustain its growth. Lew told his Chinese counterpart Lou Jiwei that it was crucial for China to support household income and rebalance the economy toward consumption-led growth, according to a report on their meeting from the US Treasury Department.Lew and Lou "also discussed the importance of China making its transition to a market-determined exchange rate in an orderly and transparent way, while clearly communicating its policies and actions to the market," the Treasury statement said.

With the yuan currency, also known as the renminbi, under pressure from speculation of a looming devaluation, the governor of the People's Bank of China sought to reassure markets, saying in Shanghai that China's economic fundamentals "remain strong".

"There is no basis for persistent renminbi depreciation from the perspective of fundamentals," Zhou Xiaochuan said. "We will not resort to competitive devaluations to boost our advantage in exports."

Zhou said China still has some monetary policy space and tools to confront challenges, and that fiscal and structural steps should also be used.

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The meeting of finance ministers and central bank governors of the advanced and emerging-market economies comes after the Bank of Japan and the European Central Bank (ECB) have adopted negative interest rates and huge quantitative easing programs.

While the US Federal Reserve has recently moved in the opposite direction, raising interest rates in December, many analysts believe it will delay any more tightening given the frailty of the global economy.

But Schaeuble's stance challenged the representatives of the world's top 20 economies, who were also urged by the International Monetary Fund this week to take "bold" action to boost growth and contain risk in a "highly vulnerable" global economy.

Berlin does "not agree on a G20 fiscal stimulus package", the German minister said.

"Monetary policy is extremely accommodating to the point that it may even be counterproductive in terms of negative side effects.

"Fiscal as well as monetary policies have reached their limits -- if you want the real economy to grow there are no shortcuts without reforms."

He insisted that reforms were more important and "thinking about further stimulus just distracts from the real task at hand".

Bank of England governor Mark Carney criticised negative interest rates as a "zero-sum game" that exported problems to other countries.

But he argued that monetary stimulus "can buy time for structural adjustments" and the challenges "demand that our firepower is well-aimed".

"Several commentators are peddling the myth that monetary policy is out of ammunition," he said.  AFP