Feature - 1st place - Little League players from the Tallmadge Pirates were all smiles as they received high fives from members of the Blue Devils varsity baseball team during the Tallmadge Little League parade. (Jeff Lange / Akron Beacon Journal)
Feature - 2nd place - A firefighter looks out of a window as he holds two baby dolls during a training exercise in a vacant house in Rossford. Teresa Laney, whose fiancé Dominic “Bama” Hunt died in a house fire in Lucas County, came out to watch the firefighter training with her family. Teresa hopes by sharing her story, she can add another element to firefighter search and rescue training. (Rebecca Benson / The Blade)
Feature - 3rd place - Pepper Danforth, 6, of Phoenix, Ariz., makes a face as her mom, Daisy, helps her put a worm on her hook at Sidecut Metropark in Maumee. (Rebecca Benson / The Blade)
Feature - HM - Rocky, an english bulldog, sits in the window and waits for his owners to pick him up after getting groomed at A Walk in the Park in Maumee. (Rebecca Benson / The Blade)
Feature - HM - A man walks past a row of picnic umbrellas opened to shade diners from the bright sunlight along Fountain Avenue in downtown Springfield. (Bill Lackey / Springfield News-Sun)
General News - 1st place - Leovardo Martinez holds his daughter Ariana Martinez as they dance during her quinceañera at St. Clement’s Hall in Toledo. A quinceañera is a celebration of a girl transitioning from girlhood to womanhood on her 15th birthday. The Martinez triplets are officially 16 years old, but due to the coronavirus pandemic the family decided to push the celebration back a year. (Rebecca Benson / The Blade)
General News - 2nd place - Ohio State students surround a Columbus Police vehicle while marching down High Street and towards the Ohio Statehouse to protest the police shooting that killed Ma'Khia Bryant and call on the university to cut its ties with Columbus Police Department. (Kyle Robertson / The Columbus Dispatch)
General News - 3rd place - Family members of the victim comfort each other as John Eichner is arraigned for murder of his wife, Amber at the Ottawa County Municipal Court in Port Clinton. Amber Eichner was found buried in a south Toledo backyard. (Jeremy Wadsworth / The Blade)
General News - HM - Delano Lockett, with Toledo Fire and Rescue, listens to speaker while holding his son Kylan Lockett, during an appreciation event for the TFRD Recruiting for Diversity program at The Reception Center. Lockett’s brother was part of the TFRD Recruiting for Diversity program so he was there to support him. (Amy E. Voigt / The Blade)
Portrait - 1st place - Former Rogers High School basketball players Stephen Coleman (left) and Jamiya Neal transferred to Hillcrest Prep in Phoenix, Arizona for their senior seasons due to COVID-19 restrictions in Ohio. (Jeremy Wadsworth / The Blade)
Portrait - 2nd place - LC Johnson the Zora's House founder is moving the location of the organization to this abandoned lot on N 4th St. in Columbus. (Kyle Robertson / The Columbus Dispatch)
Portrait - 3rd place - Glen Fike, a WWI and WWII re-enactors from the National Museum of the United States Air Force, was on hand, in uniform, when the "That's All, Brother" C-47 airplane arrived at Grimes Field in Urbana. In 1944, the plane led over 800 C-47's that dropped over 13,000 paratroopers into battle as part of D-Day. (Bill Lackey / Springfield News-Sun)
Portrait - HM - Karrio Ballard poses for a photo in his restaurant, Addella's on Oak. Opening a new restaurant during the pandemic has been a struggle. (Kyle Robertson / The Columbus Dispatch)
Sports Feature - 1st place - Akron Zips midfielder Nick Scott (right) celebrates with forward Will Jackson after beating West Virginia 3-2 in double overtime. (Jeff Lange / Akron Beacon Journal)
Sports Feature - 2nd place - Michelle Hanley-Kimmerle lays on the ground to recover in the Glass Bowl Stadium after running The Mercy Health Glass City Marathon. (Amy E. Voigt / The Blade)
Sports Feature - 3rd place - Thomas Bailey, of Farmington Hills, Mich. (left) and Lance Woods, of Detroit, hug after completing the Mercy Health Glass City Marathon at the University of Toledo. (Rebecca Benson / The Blade)
Sports Feature - HM - DeSales' David Chintala and Blake Carawan (2) celebrate Chintala's goal against Watterson during a game at St. Francis DeSales High School in Columbus. (Shane Flanigan / ThisWeek Community News)
Spot News - 1st place - Hana Abdur-Rahim is held back while yelling towards Columbus Police after pepper spray was deployed on a group protesters after they broke a lock and entered the Police building on April 13. A peaceful march with over 100 demonstrators took to the streets earlier in the evening. Miles Jackson was shot and killed inside Mount Carmel in Westerville by police the day before. (Kyle Robertson / The Columbus Dispatch)
Spot News - 2nd place - An aerial view from a drone of the remnants of an apartment building that caught fire on the 5900 block of Cresthaven Lane in Toledo. (Kurt Steiss / The Blade)
Spot News - 3rd place - A man gathers a family member's personal items from a car after it was ripped in half by a semi truck on State Route 235 at the intersection with Old Troy Pike in Champaign County. Remarkably, the driver of the car suffered only non-life threatening injuries and was transported by medics to the hospital. The driver of the semi truck was not injured. (Bill Lackey / Springfield News-Sun)
Spot News - HM - A woman reacts after talking to police about a double shooting at 3115 Upton Avenue in Toledo. (Jeremy Wadsworth / The Blade)
Sports - 1st place - Jackson's Chelsea Debevec (left) and Hudson's Emily Ritenour eye down a loose ball during the second half of a lacrosse game in Hudson. (Jeff Lange / Akron Beacon Journal)
Sports - 2nd place - Columbus Crew SC midfielder Lucas Zelarayan (10) fouls Real Estelí FC defender Bronzatti (15) during the second half of their CONCACAF Champions League quarterfinals game at Crew Stadium. (Kyle Robertson / The Columbus Dispatch)
Sports - 3rd place - Upper Arlington's Khera North competes in the 1600-meter run during a tri-meet at Upper Arlington High School. (Shane Flanigan / ThisWeek Community News)
Sports - HM - Fordham Goal Keeper Josh Levine dives after the ball during the A10 conference semi-final match against St Louis. Fordham defeated SLU 2-1 (Erik Schelkun / Elsestar Images)
Story - 1st place - Joy Dickason (right) and her three children Koda, 2, (left) Elsa, 4, (center) and Zayn, 1, talk with The Movement captain Tina Butts about setting up an appointment for Joy to get vaccinated in Toledo. (Rebecca Benson / The Blade)
Story - 2nd place - A demonstration takes place out in front of Columbus Division of Police building. Miles Jackson was shot and killed inside Mount Carmel in Westerville by police on Monday. Well over 100 demonstrators took to the street. (Kyle Robertson / The Columbus Dispatch)
