Michael Braun
Managing editorMike Braun is a 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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With the sugar harvest delayed a week by Hurricane Ian's impacts, workers from U.S. Sugar hit the FGCU campus to help clear the way for students to return. -
Lee County officials talked about possible deaths, a case of looting, a curfew being put into place, and a possible "missing" hotel during an update on Hurricane Ian late Wednesday afternoon. -
A Facebook live video from members of the Naples Fire Rescue Department showed the agency's Station One on 8th Ave South flooded by Hurricane Ian, with fire engines, rescue units and even firefighters and EMTs hip deep or more in water. -
Florida Power & Light Company plans to refund nearly $400 million to its 5.8 million customers, money to be given back as a result of savings from the new federal tax law. -
A tractor-trailer collided with the toll plaza at the eastbound gate on I-75 in Collier County Monday and a passenger vehicle, injuring several including a toll worker a driver and a passenger. -
Quick action by a Lee County Sheriff's Office deputy helped save the life of an infant who had started choking as her mother was waiting in the school drop-off line at Three Oaks Elementary School. -
A precautionary boil water notice was issued Sunday for an area of Fort Myers near I-75 and will remain in effect until a bacteriological survey shows that the water is safe to drink. A line break that prompted the alert was repaired by Sunday afternoon. -
A call involving a possible active shooter was determined to be part of a number of “swatting” calls impacting schools around the country. "Swatting” is the action of making a prank call to emergency services in an attempt to garner a large number of law enforcement to a specific location. -
U.S. Army Corps of Engineers invites volunteers to plant trees at W.P. Franklin Recreation Area on National Public Lands Day, Sept. 24 -
Multiple incidents this week involving threats at Mariner High School in Cape Coral and Lehigh Acres Middle School prompted a statement by Christopher Bernier, the School District of Lee County's superintendent of schools.
