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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Rabbi Yitzchok Minkowicz of Chabad Lubavitch of Southwest Florida and his son, Meir Simcha Minkowicz, also a rabbi at the Fort Myers Chabad, were part of a group of 30 rabbis from the United States, Australia and Canada. They spent their week in Israel comforting the families of victims of the Oct. 7 Hamas raid, speaking with military units, praying over the remains of those killed and visiting other sites around the country. -
Lee County deputies will be getting body cams, a cost of $2.5 million over 5 years, joining other SWFL law enforcement agencies that have been using them for years. -
A Naples rabbi and her Israeli-born and now U.S. citizen husband have collected more than a dozen duffel bags full of supplies for Israel which he is personally delivering to soldiers as well as to families and the victims of the deadly Oct. 7 Hamas attack.Another rabbi, from Fort Myers who has been in Israel since Sunday, was forced to hunker down in a bomb shelter when a missile alert was sounded near a hospital he was visiting. -
First responders and others who spent nearly a week looking for a missing Naples woman expressed surprise and joy after she was found safe but locked in a neighbor’s garage the entire time. On Monday Collier County Undersheriff Jim Bloom held a briefing on the ordeal of 80-year old Margaret Galloway. He said it was incredible she was found safe. -
A group of 25 American rabbis, including two from Fort Myers, will head to Israel Sunday on a mission of comfort, prayer and relief. -
Eagle lovers got one of their favorite websites back on Friday when the cameras at the Southwest Florida Eagle Cam returned online after a summer hiatus. -
This week is likely when Christopher John Worrell, a Naples resident and member of the "Proud Boys" who was re-apprehended by the FBI Sept. 28, is brought to the United States District Court for the Middle District of Florida.Worrell's arrest by the FBI on Thursday came after he was found unconscious his home in Naples. The agency said the U.S. Capitol breach case participant attempted to covertly return to his Collier County home. -
Christopher John Worrell of Naples, a member of the 'Proud Boys' extremist group, who disappeared days before his sentencing in the U.S. Capitol riot case in August, is now in FBI custody. The agency said Worrell was found unconscious his home in Naples after he attempted to covertly return to the Collier County address. -
Saildrone Explorer SD 1045 made global headlines when it spent 24 hours inside category 4 Hurricane Sam in September 2021, delivering the world’s first video footage from inside a major hurricane as it surged across the Atlantic. -
The FBI confirmed that a nationwide search remains in effect for Christopher John Worrell, a Naples man and a member of the 'Proud Boys' extremist group, who disappeared in August, days before his sentencing in the U.S. Capitol riot case, where prosecutors are seeking more than a decade in prison. The main legal representative for Worrell, Attorney William Lee Shipley, Jr.of Kailua, Hawaii, appeared on a cable network news show Monday night and said he has not heard from his client since before he vanished.
