Feature - 1st place(From left) Blessing Robinson, Ben Weilbacher, Erick Breceda, Nicholas Stein and Gabriel Lopresti, dress in period costumes during a tour through the Ohio Statehouse in Columbus. The children, fourth graders from the Saint Mary Catholic Elementary School, were depicting scenes from the suffrage period. Their clothes were modified thrift store finds, re-imagined by their teacher Linda Cotter who has taught at Saint Mary for 38 years. She continues this field trip tradition every year. (Brooke LaValley / The Columbus Dispatch)
Feature - 2nd placePreston Woodby, 8, jumps over his brother's tricycle in an empty lot next to his home on Maurice Avenue in Cleveland. Preston and his siblings have been tested positive for lead poisoning (though Preston's levels are low). The soil around the Woodby's home has been tested and has revealed high levels of lead in the soil. Bobbie Woodby, Preston's mother, now limits the time the kids can play outside. The EPA investigated Cleveland factories nearly 10 years ago in search for lead with very little follow-up. (Lisa DeJong / The Plain Dealer)
Feature - 3rd placeJillian Kiefer, 5, can barely see above the light table as she tries to look at work by Alex Conrad at the Canzini Center at Columbus College of Art and Design. The resin objects contained X-Ray or MRI images in its layers. Conrad's work is part of a show entitled First: The 2012 New Projects MFA Thesis Exhibition. (Fred Squillante / The Columbus Dispatch)
Feature - HMA Postman butterfly rests on a portion of a Dale Chihuly glass sculpture at the Franklin Park Conservatory & Botanical Gardens. The Blooms & Butterflies exhibit features hundreds of exotic butterflies and will be open until September 3, 2012. (Jonathan Quilter / The Columbus Dispatch)
Feature - HMChris Raitt, 13, (left) and his brother Matt Raitt, crawl on top of the base of this lamp post to get a better view of possible musical celebrities getting out of cars and walking on the red carpet outside of Public Hall at the 27th Annual Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony in Cleveland. The two did not have tickets for inside so the two were trying to make the best of it. (Lisa DeJong / The Plain Dealer)
General News - 1st placeAdam McCall, (left) a senior at Walnut Ridge and Johnnae Smith, a junior, were classmates of Briana Staples. They joined dozens of friends, classmates, family and neighbors during a candlelight vigil oin front of the apartment where Briana, 17, was found dead. (Jonathan Quilter / The Columbus Dispatch)
General News - 2nd placeAs Linda and Bob Murden carry a rug to the curb, their neighbors Audrey, 8, and Taylor, 6, Baer lounge in a leather love seat during Worthington's annual Precycle Day. (Adam Cairns / ThisWeek Newspapers)
General News - 3rd placeA final salute for Ohio National Guard Captain Nicholas Rozanski at Dublin Cemetery. (Fred Squillante / The Columbus Dispatch)
Portrait - 1st placeDenisha Fredrick, a confessed heroin addict who is going through withdrawl while serving time in the Clark County Jail, shows the track marks and scars on her arms and hands from injecting the illegal drug. (Bill Lackey / Springfield News-Sun)
Portrait - 2nd placeJoseph LaMonte, distance runner and employee at FrontRunner. (Brooke LaValley / The Columbus Dispatch)
Portrait - 3rd placeCartoonist Rafael Rosado poses in his studio office at Production Partners Media in Lewis Center. At right is the character "Claudette" who is the lead role in Giants Beware!, a graphic novel he has published with writer Jorge Aquirre. (Jonathan Quilter / The Columbus Dispatch)
Portrait - HMTravis Mollohan plays baseball and performs in musicals at Westerville North High School (Jonathan Quilter / The Columbus Dispatch)
Spot News - 1st placeRome firefighter Kevin Squibbs hoses down the smoldering remnants of a garage and work area at 1747 Lenox - New Lyme Road in Lenox Township. (William A. West / Wwest News Service)
Spot News - 2nd placeA bicyclist rides past a fire at the RD Holder Oil Co. in rural Clark County. The fire, which started when a tanker truck caught fire near the companies warehouse, quickly engulfed the entire business. Fire fighters battled the blaze for more than six hours. (Bill Lackey / Springfield News-Sun)
Spot News - 3rd place El Grande Steak House owner Roger Del Prince stands inside his heavily damaged business following a two-vehicle accident Wednesday on West Prospect Road in Saybrook Township. A woman drove her white Jeep Liberty east on West Prospect when she allegedly fell asleep, traveled left of center and struck a west-bound silver Jeep. The Jeep Liberty lost its left front wheel and swerved sharply north crashing into the El Grande Steak House. The restaurant was not open. (William A. West / Wwest News Service)
Sports - 1st placeSt. Joseph's Michelle Roman, 17, left in front, and St. Joseph's Erin McGinty, 14, (right) who was playing for Medina in this game, go for the ball during the Prom Dress Rugby Tournament in North Ridgeville. In background on left is St. Joseph's Ashley Kocian, 15, and on right in background is Medina's Rochelle Keller, 15. Five girls' rugby teams participated in this fundraiser that will benefit The Smile Train who is holding The Smile Train Triathlon on June 24. ( Lisa DeJong / The Plain Dealer)
Sports - 2nd placeIndians third baseman Jack Hanahan throws to first as shadows creep across the outfield during Cleveland's opener with the Toronto Blue Jays. (Scott Heckel / The (Canton) Repository)
Sports - 3rd placeWadsworth second baseman Alyssa Horton crashes into a fence while chasing down a foul ball hit by Nordonia's Katie Hurst in the 4thinning at Weatherstone Park in Wadsworth. The Knights won the game 3-1. (Phil Masturzo / Akron Beacon Journal)
Sports - HMZac Crislip from Shawnee High School dives for a ground ball during a baseball game against Graham. Shawnee won the game 9-7. (Barbara J. Perenic / Springfield News-Sun)
Sports Feature - 1st placeWhile dad Frankie Hejduk (center) talks to 97.1 The Fan reporter Lori Schmidt (left) about his retirement from playing professional soccer, Hejduk's children Cali, 1, far right, and Coasten, 4, second from right, engage in play of their own. Hejduk will join the Crew's front office as a brand ambassador. (Fred Squillante / The Columbus Dispatch)
Sports Feature - 2nd placePaige McCrary (27) of Kenton Ridge celebrates with Elyssa Mathews (4) after scoring in the winning run against Northwestern. Kenton Ridge won the game 8-7 in eight innings. (Barbara J. Perenic / Springfield News-Sun)
Sports Feature - 3rd placeNew Albany's Grant Oehler (9) reacts after teammate Jared Mandel is tagged out at home by Watkins Tony Winters after trying to score when a pitch got past the catcher. This ended the New Albany's threat in the sixth. Watkins won 2-1. (Lorrie Cecil / ThisWeek Newspapers)
Story - 1st placeMarion Correctional Institution Chaplin Timothy Smith (left) baptizies inmate Charles Jones (right) in the prison Chapel. (Tom Dodge / The Columbus Dispatch)
Story - 2nd placeThomas Madine waves an American Flag as the hearse with the casket of Capt. Nicholas Rozanski leaves Saint Joan of Arc Catholic Church after a funeral mass in Powell. Thomas a citizen of Westerville wanted to pay his respect to Rozanski after reading about him in the paper. (Kyle Robertson / The Columbus Dispatch)
Story - 3rd placeWhile performing a praise dance, Kia Thompson kneels and offers her sympathy in front of Ariell Taylor-Brown, widow of SSG Christopher L. Brown who was killed while serving in Afghanistan and memorialized during a service at the Aladdin Shrine Center. (Chris Russell / The Columbus Dispatch)
