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    Three tornadoes have been confirmed in Michigan as severe storms barreled through the central U.S.,  killing one man in Tennessee when a tree toppled onto a vehicle he was in. National Weather Service meteorologist Nathan Jeruzal says Wednesday that the tornadoes in Michigan touched down one each in Kalamazoo, Cass and Branch counties — all in the southwestern part of the state. Kalamazoo County’s Portage area was hard hit as a FedEx facility was shredded and more than a dozen mobile homes destroyed. Tornadoes were first reported after dark Tuesday in parts of Michigan, Indiana and Ohio, while portions of Illinois, Kentucky and Missouri were also under a tornado watch.

      The Justice Department says a former Tennessee Department of Corrections officer has been sentenced to four years in prison for using excessive force on an inmate and trying to cover it up. The agency said in a statement that 38-year-old Javian Griffin received the sentence Monday. The former tactical officer at Northwest Correctional Complex pleaded guilty in October to punching the inmate in the head without justification and breaking his jaw. Court documents say the inmate did not resist or pose a threat and Griffin wrote a false report about it.

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