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No Update, No Names

If the names of the two drivers involved are released by the Wheeling Police Department, LEDE News will not publish them because we feel there is no need to report them.

A Fowl Sixty

Having "just enough" can look a lot of ways. Maybe it's "just enough" gas to get to work. Or "just enough" food to get you through until the next payday. Maybe it's "just enough" to get by after keeping your utilities on.

A Love for Wheeling History

When we first met 33 years ago in 1986 at the Ohio Valley Mall, Jessica Barclay was working at a kiosk in front of my store...

A Taste of Stone Soup

There's a folktale entitled "Stone Soup." In my words, some travelers entered a village, hungry and exhausted. They asked the villagers for a bite to...

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...

Scams and Your Folks

Older adults lose an estimated $2.9 billion (yes – with a “B”) annually from financial exploitation according to the Senate Special Committee on Aging.  Perhaps your...

Understanding Struggles

My youngest came running down the street a few weeks ago, crying. Something had taken place where she and friends had been playing, and...

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...