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SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (AP) — Three former Democratic presidential candidates paid personal respects Friday to George McGovern, whose 1972 campaign for president galvanized the party's liberal wing and ushered in a new generation of political activism. Walter Mondale, John Kerry and Gary Hart — who like McGovern all spent time in the Senate before unsuccessful runs for the White House — led a crowd of hundreds of mourners. Hart, McGovern's campaign manager in 1972, was the only one of the three to speak at the funeral. AP Photo...
AP Photo/Doug Dreyer A sign outside of a sandbagged home owned by Deb and MonteA Kenworthy expresses their displeasure at the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers in Ft. Pierre, S.D. FORT PIERRE, S.D. — Sitting atop a 6-foot wall of white sandbags hastily stacked to protect his home from the rising Missouri River, 82-year-old Helmet Reuer doesn't buy the official explanation that heavy rains caused a sudden flood threat. Along with his neighbors in an upscale section of Fort Pierre, Reuer thinks the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers b...