Feature - 1st place - Greg Adair checks on marijuana plants growing in his basement operation at his home in Monroe, Michigan. The medical marijuana advocate, is a patient using pot and a caregiver for five people. His medical use is for knee and back pain. The people for whom he is a caregiver — that is, as supplier and adviser on how to administer cannabis — are a 78-year-old woman, three men in their 60s, and a 9-year-old boy. (Andy Morrison / The (Toledo) Blade)
Feature - 2nd place - A fog settles over the Maumee River as fishermen are lined up during the annual spring walleye run in Perrysburg. (Andy Morrison / The (Toledo) Blade)
Feature - 3rd place - Joe Weiler of Bucyrus brings his garbage can back to the house after high winds blew it into the street. 40 MPH winds were officially registered were in advance of a cold front. (Mitchell Pe Masilun / Bucyrus Telegraph Forum)
Feature - HM - Jaren Davidson, a student at Springfield High School, gets his hair shaved off during a St. Baldrick's charity event in the school gym. With the help of local barbers and stylists, nine students had their head shaved to raise money and increase awareness of childhood cancer. The students raised over $2.000 for the charity. (Bill Lackey / Springfield News-Sun)
Feature - HM - Kids inaugurate the arrival of summer on 4th St. in Mansfield. (Mitchell Pe Masilun / Mansfield News Journal)
General News - 1st place - Four-year-old Isaiah Ross plays with a flag while his mom, Heather Ross, fixes the flowers on her grandmother's grave at the Galena Cemetery. Berkshire Township says it will no longer maintain Galena Cemetery, after doing so for more than 200 years. (Jonathan Quilter / The Columbus Dispatch)
General News - 2nd place - Roberta Mazur, left, of Alliance holds her poodle Yvette while talking to Elaine Shimp of Cambridge inside the rotunda of the Ohio Statehouse during the 150th anniversary of the repose of President Abraham Lincoln. (Kyle Robertson / The Columbus Dispatch)
General News - 3rd place - Volunteer Carol Mohr (center) reads to Ke'asiah Starks, 7, (right) and Savoi Johnson, 6, during Power Hour, an hour of homework activity, at the Boys and Girls Club in Franklinton, After more than 60 years in Franklinton, the flagship Boys and Girls Club will soon move to the Hilltop. (Eamon Queeney / The Columbus Dispatch)
Portrait - 1st place - Rev. John Roberts is celebrating 50 years as minister of the Indiana Avenue Baptist Church in Toledo. (Jeremy Wadsworth / The (Toledo) Blade)
Portrait - 2nd place - West Jefferson High School senior Madi Phillips poses for a photograph wearing her prom dress at home Madi and her mom Joy went through many different dresses until they decided on this intricate $950 creation. She has her whole outfit planned for the May 2nd dance. (Eamon Queeney / The Columbus Dispatch)
Portrait - 3rd place - Communication studies junior Brianna Bradley poses for a portrait at the Kent State-Stark campus. Bradley has keratoconus, a vision impairment caused by a thinning in one or both eyes' cornea. Bradley had a successful corneal transplant in her left eye. but is now experiencing peripheral vision loss in her right eye. (Jenna Watson / Kent State University)
Portrait - HM - Todd Walburn, co-owner of 2nd April Galerie, is shown with the artwork of Scofield Designs and Medalworks that is available in his business in Canton. (Scott Heckel / The (Canton) Repository)
Sports Feature - 1st place - Columbus Clippers right fielder Carlos Moncrief gets into the face of home plate umpire Jon Byrne after a called third strike against Moncrief during their game against Indianapolis Indians at Huntington Park in Columbus. Moncrief was thrown out of the game. (Kyle Robertson / The Columbus Dispatch)
Sports Feature - 2nd place - Columbus Blue Jackets center Boone Jenner (38) and the team step on to the ice before the first period of their game against the Buffalo Sabres at Nationwide Arena in Columbus. The Blue Jackets defeated the Sabres 4 - 2. (Eamon Queeney / The Columbus Dispatch)
Sports Feature - 3rd place - Walleye forward Kyle Bonis (28) celebrates scoring his second goal of the game against Elmira goalie Sam Marotta (39) during an ECHL hockey game at the Huntington Center in Toledo. (Jeremy Wadsworth / The (Toledo) Blade)
ASpot News - 1st place - A relative of the victims, who declined to give her name, cries as she walks near the scene of a shooting in which Jenea R. Harvison, 29, and Donell McDonald, 23, were killed and a third victim, Roy Harvison, was taken to Grant Medical Center. (Adam Cairns / The Columbus Dispatch)
Spot News - 2nd place - Members of the Mad River Township fire department extinguish the flames that consumed a tractor trailer and car after they collided head-on, on eastbound I-70 near the Enon Road exit. The driver of the car was killed in the crash but the truck driver escaped before the truck caught fire. (Bill Lackey / Springfield News-Sun)
Spot News - 3rd place - Lisbon firefighters battle a trailer fire at 9511 Freeman Road. The vacant trailer owned by Ronetta Serroka was surrounded by thick woods and sat between two occupied trailers. Serroka’s sister, lives next door and feared the fire would soon take her home. (Patricia Schaeffer / The (Lisbon) Morning Journal)
Sports - 1st place - Marysville catcher Grant Howard (right) reaches to tag out Dublin Coffman's Matt Phipps during the Monarchs' game against Dublin Coffman at Dublin Coffman High School. (Joshua A. Bickel / ThisWeek Community News)
Sports - 2nd place - A scrum opens up in front of the net as players fall to the ice in the first period of a game between the Columbus Blue Jackets and the Buffalo Sabres at Nationwide Arena in Columbus. The Blue Jackets defeated the Sabres 4 - 2. (Eamon Queeney / The Columbus Dispatch)
Sports - 3rd place - Toledo Christian's Kyle Kempton (11) tries to steal second base against Gibsonburg's Jordan Kreglow (10) during the first inning of a game in Toledo. (Jeremy Wadsworth / The (Toledo) Blade)
Sports - HM - VCU's Logan Farrar upends the second base bag along with Dayton's Greg Rhude during an unsuccessful stolen base attempt. (Erik Schelkun / Elsestar Images )
Story - 1st place - In partnership with The Ohio State University and the USDA, the Meat Processing Career Center at Pickaway Correctional Institution hosted students from nine universities for the Southeastern Collegiate Meat Judging Contest. Students competed in grading and judging the quality of beef carcasses and cuts in what is an actual NCAA sport. (Barbara J. Perenic / The Columbus Dispatch)
Story - 2nd place - A scrum opens up in front of the net as players fall to the ice in the first period of a game between the Columbus Blue Jackets and the Buffalo Sabres at Nationwide Arena in Columbus. The Blue Jackets defeated the Sabres 4 - 2. (Eamon Queeney / The Columbus Dispatch)
