Michael Braun
Managing editorMike Braun is formerly with the Fort Myers News-Press and Naples Daily News where he worked for 17 years as a page designer/copy editor and breaking news reporter.
He also worked for 25 years at The Vindicator in Youngstown, Ohio, serving as a general assignment reporter, rewrite editor, copy editor, Sunday edition editor, outdoors columnist, designer and chief of the design desk.
He graduated in 1977 with a degree in media communications from Youngstown State University where he was editor-in-chief of the school newspaper, The Jambar.
He lives in Fort Myers and is originally from Peoria, Illinois.
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A Southwest Florida restaurateur and his cousin are dead after the motorcycle they were riding overturned on a stretch of Tennessee road known for its curves. -
The Florida Highway Patrol's Elite DUI Squad and the Aggressive Driving Unit will be conducting “Operation Dry Streets”, a specialized impaired driving enforcement initiative, from this Friday through Sunday, throughout 10 counties in Southwest Florida that are Troop F's region. -
Family members involved in a wrongful death lawsuit resulting from the 2024 fatal jet crash on I-75 in Naples are seeking to move their case to another judge who is handling a similar case from the same crash. Both suits were filed in 2025. -
Two different first nests were reported Wednesday in Collier County — one by The Collier County Sea Turtle Protection Team on Barefoot Beach and another by Conservancy of Southwest Florida scientists on Keewaydin Island. -
The final report by the National Transportation Safety Board on Flight 823, which crashed during an emergency landing on I-75 in Naples on Feb. 9, 2024, was released Thursday afternoon. It pins the probable cause of the crash on corrosion in both engines that led to lost of thrust and the ensuing crash landing.
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The Newman Fire, which broke out in east Naples along the Picayune State Forest this week, was the third of four notable wildfires in the Western Everglades over the last six weeks. -
A 1,733-acre wildfire was being fought in the Picayune Strand State Forest in Collier County Monday afternoon. The fire was south of Alligator Alley and prompted a warning from the Florida Highway Patrol. -
A young, male black bear which had been getting into garbage on the Florida Gulf Coast University campus was trapped Thursday morning and will be relocated. The around 200-pound animal was caught in a Florida Fish & Wildlife Commission trap behind the WGCU Public Media station offices on campus. -
Despite rains that extremely dry ground siphoned up almost as soon as it fell Thursday, Friday and Saturday, several brush fires still managed to erupt across the area. The largest is in the Big Cypress National Preserve, in an area north of I-75. -
It was a show of protest, frustration, disaffection and concern and it was shared by thousands Saturday in various Southwest Florida sites, other parts of the state and across the United States and the world. The No Kings III event was billed as a protest rally and drew people of many different political affiliations who said they had concerns with how the current administration in Washington run by President Donald Trump was handling things.
