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A series of powerful storms and tornadoes have killed 15 people in the US states of Indiana, Kentucky and Ohio, officials say.

Local police officials confirmed that nine people died as tornadoes swept across three counties in Indiana.

Five others died in Kentucky, with one fatality in Ohio. Earlier, tornadoes hit Alabama, causing widespread damage.

The storms - stretched across a vast part of the US Midwest - came days after another system killed 13 people.

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(CNN) -- Andrew Breitbart, the conservative blogger whose posting of a sexually explicit photo of former U.S. Rep. Anthony Weiner led to the congressman's downfall, has died, his attorney confirmed Thursday.

He was 43.

Joel Pollak, editor-in-chief and in-house counsel for Breitbart's website, Breitbart.com, posted a statement confirming his death.

"Andrew passed away unexpectedly from natural causes shortly after midnight this morning in Los Angeles," the statement read. "We have lost a husband, a father, a son, a brother, a dear friend, a patriot and a happy warrior."

A Los Angeles Fire Department spokesman said paramedics received an unspecified medical call at 11:10 p.m. Wednesday.. Breitbart was transported to UCLA Medical Center and pronounced dead 19 minutes after midnight, said Ed Winter, a spokesman for the Los Angeles County Coroner.

An autopsy is planned for Friday, Winter said, but the Los Angeles Police Department said it is not investigating the circumstances of his death.

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