WARM WELCOME — Jean Mathews and Ajay Kumar Aluri of Morgantown — originally from India — pose with their 2-year-old daughter, Anya, and U.S. Magistrate Judge James P. Mazzone on Friday following a naturalization ceremony in U.S. District Court in Wheeling. -- Eric Ayres

WHEELING — Thirty six new U.S. citizens — hailing from a total of 23 different home countries around the world — took the Oath of Allegiance on Friday in U.S. District Court in Wheeling.

Family members and friends gathered at the Federal Building on Friday for a naturalization ceremony in U.S. District Court for the Northern District of West Virginia. U.S. Magistrate Judge James P. Mazzone presided.

The three dozen participants arrived at the Federal Building as immigrants, and they walked out waving small American flags

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