CHARLES TOWN, W.Va. –– The weekend removal of Nicholas Maduro from power in Venezuela was a welcomed change for West Virginia State Senator Patricia Rucker.
Rucker is a native of Venezuela but now an American citizen. She remembered her native land as a free country before the communist regime came to power and never released control. She said her former countrymen and waited for this day for years.
“I must admit my first initial reaction was disbelief and wasn’t certain if it was real and true.

WHEELING, W.Va. — An investigation is underway after a body was found in the Ohio River Monday morning near Wheeling.
The body was recovered near the Interstate 470 bridge by the Wheeling Fire Department.
Authorities said the body was being taken to the state Medical Examiner’s Office in Charleston for an autopsy.
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CHARLESTON, W.Va – A Kanawha County man accused of first-degree murder will not go on trial as scheduled later this month.
Kanawha County Circuit Judge Maryclaire Akers granted the prosecution a continuance in the case of Jacob Fields, the 19-year-old who allegedly shot and killed 42-year-old Tiffany Adkins as she walked out of the Sheetz convenience store in Kanawha City last year.
Assistant prosecuting attorney Madison Tuck moved for the continuance on the grounds that two key witnesses, a

MORGANTOWN, W.Va.  — A Maryland man is in custody after he allegedly killed a woman in a Morgantown area motel Sunday.
Monongalia County sheriff’s deputies responded to a report of a stabbing at the Morgantown Motel on Smithtown Road Sunday and found a victim suffering from stab wounds. Deputies said the victim was able to identify her attacker as Karol Crosco, 49, of Garrett County, Maryland before she died.
Morgantown police later identified Crosco and detained him for deputies. Investigators

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