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Author: Michael Braun, Fort Myers News-Press

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Florida man once bitten by alligator is chomped by 8-foot shark while on vacation

August 2, 2020Michael Braun, Fort Myers News-PressComments Off on Florida man once bitten by alligator is chomped by 8-foot shark while on vacation

Justin Stuller is now sporting two dozen stitches and a small limp after tangling with an eight-foot lemon shark in the Florida Keys.

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Florida daycare teacher fired after child comes home with ‘I’m out of diapers’ written on torso

January 28, 2020Michael Braun, Fort Myers News-PressComments Off on Florida daycare teacher fired after child comes home with ‘I’m out of diapers’ written on torso

A Florida mother has pulled both of her children from the daycare center after the incident.

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Man accused of taking car with a mother and child inside, stealing Florida airport employee’s wallet

January 22, 2020Michael Braun, Fort Myers News-PressComments Off on Man accused of taking car with a mother and child inside, stealing Florida airport employee’s wallet

A Texas man is facing seven charges including assault and kidnapping after carjacking a family’s vehicle at Southwest Florida International Airport.

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‘You are stronger than you realize’: Widow finds letters from husband written in case of his death

January 18, 2020Michael Braun, Fort Myers News-PressComments Off on ‘You are stronger than you realize’: Widow finds letters from husband written in case of his death

Oak Gregg-Donaldson wrote the letters before a surgery in 2018 and stored them with the title to his motorcycle. His widow found them after his death.

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Florida woman’s right hand severed by private plane’s propeller in Key West accident

October 14, 2019Michael Braun, Fort Myers News-PressComments Off on Florida woman’s right hand severed by private plane’s propeller in Key West accident

The Florida Highway Patrol says Rebecca Lynn Gray, 45, was struck by a propeller blade as she helped prepare a rented Cessna for takeoff Saturday.

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Convicted killer Samuel Little, who claims 93 murders, is ‘most prolific serial killer’ in US history, FBI says

October 8, 2019Michael Braun, Fort Myers News-PressComments Off on Convicted killer Samuel Little, who claims 93 murders, is ‘most prolific serial killer’ in US history, FBI says

Samuel Little has confessed to 93 murders, with authorities matching him to 50 cases. Forty-three confessions are pending confirmation.

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Dolphin impaled in the head found dead, wildlife officials seek clues

July 11, 2019Michael Braun, Fort Myers News-PressComments Off on Dolphin impaled in the head found dead, wildlife officials seek clues

Investigators are looking for who or what made a gash in the head of a bottlenose dolphin found dead in May.

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She was dead for 18 minutes after drowning in a rip current. Then she started breathing

July 8, 2019Michael Braun, Fort Myers News-PressComments Off on She was dead for 18 minutes after drowning in a rip current. Then she started breathing

Tia Gambrel-Irizarry, a trained diver and former lifeguard, drowned in a powerful rip current off Turner Beach on the edge of Captiva. She survived.

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My dad died too soon, but a 1940 article gave me a glimpse of a man who stood up to Nazis

June 15, 2019Michael Braun, Fort Myers News-PressComments Off on My dad died too soon, but a 1940 article gave me a glimpse of a man who stood up to Nazis

A story in a World War II-era newspaper gave me insight into how an Austria couple — my parents — escaped Nazis and built a home in England, America.

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Florida man charged with bludgeoning crew member to death on commercial fishing boat

March 20, 2019Michael Braun, Fort Myers News-PressComments Off on Florida man charged with bludgeoning crew member to death on commercial fishing boat

Charges of second-degree murder were filed Tuesday in U.S. District Court in Fort Myers against Casey Lowell Hickok, 32, of Copeland, Florida

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