Feature - 1st place - Jaison Shepherd (right) plays in one of the water fountains with his twin brother Jayden during the opening celebration for the Perkins Woods Pool in Akron. (Jeff Lange / Akron Beacon Journal)
Feature - 2nd place - Springfield Police Officer Zach Massie asks Theo Wilson-Rector, 3, if he's sure he wants the bike he picked out as he plays with the young bicycle raffle winner during the National Night Out at Veteran's Park. (Bill Lackey / Springfield News-Sun)
Feature - 3rd place - Toledo resident Elizabeth Porter holds 2-year-old son, Iris Porter-Livingston, as they ride along in a Jeep in a car crushing activity during the Adams Street Invasion in Toledo. The event is part of the weekend’s Jeep Fest festivities. (Kurt Steiss / The Blade)
Feature - HM - Officials and community members greet students on the first day of school at MLK Jr. Academy for Boys in Toledo. (Jeremy Wadsworth / The Blade)
General News - 1st place - Charlie Vallely, 2, of Brookfield (bottom) climbs up on a lobby couch to get a closer look at Spiderman as he makes his way down the side of Akron Children’s Hospital. (Jeff Lange / Akron Beacon Journal)
General News - 2nd place - Recruit Joshua Close (with flag) leads Toledo Fire Class 297 to finish a “legacy run” near the Toledo Firefighters Memorial on Beech Street in Toledo. (Isaac Ritchey / The Blade)
General News - 3rd place - Lieutenant Gina Shubeta high fives Ma’Khi Finn, 8, after he correctly answered a question during National Night out at the Frederick Douglass community center in Toledo. (Rebecca Benson / The Blade)
General News - HM - The Toledo Mud Hens logo on the Swamp Shop sign looks as though it's swinging at the full moon after the Hens’ 7-1 loss to the Iowa Cubs in an International League baseball game at Fifth Third Field in Toledo. (Kurt Steiss / The Blade)
General News - HM - Robert Greathouse, 93, (left) shakes hands with President Gary Miller after receiving his Associate of Technical Studies degree during a ceremony at the University of Akron College of Arts and Sciences. (Jeff Lange / Akron Beacon Journal)
Portrait - 1st place - Olivia Burnett stands in a rotunda before Summer Commencement at the Schottenstein Center on The Ohio State University campus. Burnett. Burnett would be receiving her degree is in Child and Youth Studies from the College of Education and Human Ecology. She attended Ohio State from 1970-73 but had to quit after having extensive surgery and then having to take a job to provide for her family. (Brooke LaValley / The Columbus Dispatch)
Portrait - 2nd place - Nancy Crow and her husband, John Stitzlein stand in the driveway of their home in Baltimore, Ohio. The two have lived on the farm since 1979 when they bought the property that has expanded to over 200 acres over the years. They are concerned that their property will be effected by the new redistricting of public land that is happening in their county, influenced by the Intel chip factory that is being built in their part of the state. (Brooke LaValley / The Columbus Dispatch)
Portrait - 3rd place - Harold Hoffman, 97, a 1943 Central Catholic High School graduate and World War II veteran will be honored during halftime of the Fighting Irish football game. Here Mr. Hoffman is in his home in Toledo. (Jeremy Wadsworth / The Blade)
Sports Feature - 1st place - Findlay enters the field before the start of a high school football game at Donnell Stadium in Findlay. (Rebecca Benson / The Blade)
Sports Feature - 3rd place - Toledo’s Ryan Kreidler gets showered in sunflower seeds by his teammates in the dugout after he hit home run during an International League game against the Iowa Cubs at Fifth Third Field in Toledo. (Kurt Steiss / The Blade)
Sports Feature - 3rd place - Cuyahoga Falls running back Zavier Lindsey celebrates with his team after his 64-yard touchdown run against Springfield during the second half of a high school football game in Akron. (Jeff Lange / Akron Beacon Journal)
Sports Feature - HM - Anthony Wayne football players head out of an inflatable helmet ahead of a high school football game against St. John’s Jesuit at Anthony Wayne High School in Whitehouse, Ohio. (Kurt Steiss / The Blade)
Sports Feature - 2nd place - The Whitmer Panthers student section roars after the opening kickoff against the Central Catholic Fighting Irish at Whitmer High School in Toledo. (Isaac Ritchey / The Blade)
Spot News - 1st place - A father hugs his son at the scene of a Northwestern School District bus crash that killed one student and injured more than 20 others on State Route 41 near Springfield. The bus, carrying 52 elementary students on their way to the first day of school was struck by a mini van and rolled over. (Bill Lackey / Springfield News-Sun)
Spot News - 2nd place - Family members are reunited with their children at the German Township Government Center following a Northwestern School District bus crash on State Route 41. One student was killed and more than 20 others were injured. The bus, carrying 52 elementary students on their way to the first day of school was struck by a mini van and rolled over. (Bill Lackey / Springfield News-Sun)
Spot News - 3rd place - A Toledo Fire and Rescue Department officer grimaces while having a drink after helping extinguish a fatal fire on Klondike Street in Toledo. (Isaac Ritchey / The Blade)
Spot News - HM - Firefighters and medics from the Bolivar Fire Department assist detectives from the Tuscarawas County Sheriff's Office with the identification of a person who was found shot to death on the historic Zoar Iron Bridge in Lawrence Township. According to detectives on scene, 'a note was found' suggesting that it was a suicide. (Andrew Dolph / The Times Reporter)
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Sports - 2nd place - Cardinal Stritch wide receiver Nathan Frontline (left) makes a catch against St. Joseph Central Catholic linebacker Oliver Wright during a high school football game at Don Paul Stadium in Fremont. (Jeremy Wadsworth / The Blade)
Sports - 3rd place - Dayton's Goalie Batoul Reda deflects a shot on goal by Illinois. The two teams battled to a 0-0 draw at Baujan Field in Dayton. (Erik Schelkun / Elsestar Images)
Sports - HM - Central Catholic’s Jayden Watson dives for an incomplete pass against Findlay’s Israel Moore during a high school football game at Donnell Stadium in Findlay. (Rebecca Benson / The Blade)
Story - 1st place - Drum Major Tarlyn Arnold looks to fellow major Kenji Harris during practice outside of the Linden-McKinley STEM Academy. The band is trying to raise funds to go to Memphis for an HBCU marching band performance in Memphis. (Brooke LaValley / The Columbus Dispatch)
