Author: Steve Novotney

Steve Novotney has been a professional journalist for 33 years, working in print for weekly, daily, and bi-weekly publications, writing for a number of regional and national magazines, host baseball-related talks shows on Pittsburgh’s ESPN, and as a daily, all-topics talk show host in the Wheeling and Steubenville markets since 2004. Novotney is the co-owner, editor, and co-publisher of LEDE News, and is the host of “Novotney Now,” a daily program that airs Monday-Friday from 3-6 p.m. on River Talk 100.1 & 100.9 FM.

‘Fatalities, yes. This? No.’

It is an unimaginable, unthinkable tragedy, and that is why investigators continue working this evening to piece together the information collected today at the...

Update: A Fatal Morning

UPDATE: The Wheeling Police Department has released the name of the victim from this morning’s accident. The victim’s name is Michelle Lynn Czoka, a 54-year...

Braden’s Race to IT

Travis Braden is a racecar driver who travels the country and turns left a lot to earn a living, and that is because he possesses an...

Cuts Coming in West Virginia

He expects election-year “lightning bolt” proposals during the upcoming regular session in Charleston, but W.Va. Sen. Bill Ihlenfeld also believes much of his attention will focus...

To Complain or Not

For more than two years here in the Upper Ohio Valley, the top complaint from residents involved the condition of the roads. The decay is very...

Freedom Of Information

This feature on LEDE News may not appear weekly but instead when we must file a FOIA Request with whatever branch of government we deem needs...

An OPEN LETTER To …

AN OPEN LETTER TO W.VA. SENATE PRESIDENT MITCH CARMICHAEL: Last year, it was charter schools despite public opinion. This year? In an election year? Let’s see … A...

Nightmare on ‘Main Street’

Some, but not many, in Ohio County can recall when THE road went through the city of Wheeling more than 60 years ago, but the...

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