Feature - 1st place - Brady Cook, 13, catches air while sledding down a hill at Pearson Metropark in Oregon, Ohio. (Rebecca Benson / The Blade)
Feature - 2nd place - Nathan Shaulskiy sticks his tongue out while watching instructor Dawn Billings pour chocolate onto the dessert deviled eggs during a candy making class for 4-5 year olds at Cake Art Supplies & Bakery in Toledo. (Rebecca Benson / The Blade)
Feature - 3rd place - A child plays on the playground at Smith Park in New Carlisle as he and his family take advantage of the unseasonably warm temperatures and sunshine. (Bill Lackey / Springfield News-Sun)
Feature - HM - Members of the tenor section look over their parts as Choirmaster Jonathan Turner works with another group during a rehearsal in preparation for the Gospel Meets Symphony choir's Feb. 8 performance at the University of Akron's E.J. Thomas Hall. (Jeff Lange / Akron Beacon Journal)
Feature - HM - C.W. Dave, 3, of Akron, gives a look of amazement as he finds himself trapped inside a giant bubble made by "The Bubble Lady" Sue Durante during her show as part of the 13th annual Family Reading Festival at the Akron-Summit County Public Library. (Jeff Lange / Akron Beacon Journal)
General News - 1st place - The flag draped casket of Army Spc. Cameron Logwood is placed in the hearse following his funeral services Monday in the Urbana High School auditorium. The 21-year-old Urbana High School graduate was killed in a traffic crash earlier this month while stationed in Alaska. (Bill Lackey / Springfield News-Sun)
General News - 2nd place - Two Perry High School student teams face off in a dodgeball tournament after ACT and prep testing earlier this morning. (Aaron Self / The Canton Repository)
General News - 3rd place - Louis Ule, looks out over ever-growing gorge that runs through Kungle Road in Norton. It has been eight months since heavy rainfall caused the initial collapse of the road and residents are still waiting for the city to come up with a fix for what they now call "Kungle Canyon." (Jeff Lange / Akron Beacon Journal)
General News - HM - Snow falls over the University of Toledo campus on Wednesday, Feb. 12, 2020. (Kurt Steiss / The Blade)
Portrait - 1st place - Celina firefighters/paramedics Kane Swaney (left) and Dane Dwenger pose in one of the ambulances at the Celina Fire Department. Local Emergency Medical Services officials are looking for volunteers to combat a shortage in rural counties. (Daniel Melograna / The Daily Standard)
Portrait - 2nd place - New Bremen's Vivian Niekamp prepares to compete in the Division II state diving championship with Kameron MacLean, St. Marys, Holden Cubberley, Celina, and Xander Spees, St. Marys, at the C.T. Banin Natatorium in Canton. (Daniel Melograna / The Daily Standard)
Portrait - 3rd place - Seminarian Michael Fulton is nearing the end of his training at the Pontifical College Josephinum in Columbus. Fulton is shown inside the seminary's St. Turibius Chapel. (Shane Flanigan / ThisWeek Community News)
Portrait - HM - Longtime Wexner Center film projectionist Bruce Bartoo is retiring January 31, 2020. In the age of digital the Wexner Center has remained committed to showing film as well as digital.The strip of film contains countdown numbers at the beginning of film. (Eric Albrecht / The Columbus Dispatch)
Sports Feature - 1st place - Wadsworth's Chris Earnest takes down Jackson's Ethan Smith during their 106 pound match for third place at the Division I sectional wrestling tournament in Wadsworth. (Jeff Lange / Akron Beacon Journal)
Sports Feature - 2nd place - GlenOak’s Makenzie Green reacts while cutting down the net after defeating Hoover during their Div I district final at Perry High School. (Scott Heckel / The Canton Repository)
Sports Feature - 3rd place - Daytons Jenna Giacone yells in celebration after her teammate Jordan Wilmouth scored a basket late in the game against Rhode Island. The Flyers defeated Rhode Island 71-60. (Erik Schelkun / Elsestar Images)
Sports Feature - HM - Firestone senior Madeline Dyer celebrates after placing third in the 100-yard breaststroke event with a time of 1:03.45 during the OHSAA state swimming and diving tournament at C.T. Branin Natatorium in Canton. (Jeff Lange / Akron Beacon Journal)
Sports Feature - HM - Perrysburg players celebrate their 52-49 victory as Southview players react to their loss in the background at the conclusion of a Northern Lakes League basketball game at Southview High School in Sylvania. (Kurt Steiss / The Blade)
Spot News - 1st place - Judy Savage (center) is held by family and friends as her nephew, who was found dead in a house, is brought out on a gurney on the 1100 block of Buckingham Street in Toledo, on February 22, 2020. (Rebecca Benson / The Blade)
Spot News - 2nd place - Firefighters arrive on the scene of a fully engulfed home in Mount Vernon February 9, 2020. College Township Captain Jim Thompson (center) points to where he wants two firefighters to position. Crews from multiple departments were on the scene for two hours as the wind and rain hampered initial efforts to stop the spread of the flames. (Joshua Morrison / Mount Vernon News)
Spot News - 3rd place - Members of the Columbus Police Investigative Tactical Unit execute a judge's orders remove anyone inside the house at 1667 Minnesota Avenue in North Linden that the City of Columbus deemed a public nuisance. The Environmental Blight Abatement Team then boarded up the house after six people were removed. (Adam Cairns / The Columbus Dispatch)
Spot News - HM - Over 30 firefighters from Coldwater, Celina and St. Henry responded to a fire at Greenland Estates apartments at 911 North Seventh St in Coldwater. (Daniel Melograna / The Daily Standard)
Sports - 1st place - Dayton's Obi Toppin performs a windmill dunk as the Duquesne defense watches. (Erik Schelkun / Elsestar Images)
Sports - 2nd place - Florida Panthers goaltender Sergei Bobrovsky (72) dives to stop a shot from Columbus Blue Jackets center Riley Nash (20) between defensemen Aaron Ekblad (5), and Mike Matheson (19) and right wing Brett Connolly (10) during the second period of an NHL game at Nationwide Arena in Columbus. (Adam Cairns / The Columbus Dispatch)
Sports - 3rd place - Michigan State forward Xavier Tillman (23) is fouled by Michigan forward Isaiah Livers (2) in the second half at Crisler Center in Ann Arbor. (Rick Osentoski / Freelance)
Sports - HM - Ohio State’s Kaleb Wesson (34) and Indiana’s Trayce Jackson-Davis (4) vie for a rebound under the basket during the second half of a game at Value City Arena in Columbus on Feb. 1, 2020. Ohio State won 68-59. (Adam Cairns / The Columbus Dispatch)
Story - 1st place - Jeff Clark's life was memorialized at the Rutherford Corbin Funeral Home in Worthington. Jeff was buried with spare change that he was always asking from patrol officers as well as the public, Jeff then would give the money away to those who needed it more. Jeff was friend to many Columbus police officers who patrolled High St. and was also well known to business owners and students. (Eric Albrecht / The Columbus Dispatch)
Story - 2nd place - Upper Arlington's Emma Schueler (center) celebrates with teammates Caroline Colombo, Caroline Porterfield and Avery Catalano after the Upper Arlington 200-yard freestyle relay team took first place at the OHSAA Division I state swimming and diving tournament at the C.T. Branin Natatorium in Canton. (Shane Flanigan / ThisWeek Community News)
Story - 3rd place - From left Marissa Smith, 13, her sister Kira Smith, 11, and Robert Pasker-Sisson, 10, practice playing violas and violins at the music display during Wakanda Night at Rogers High School in Toledo. Wakanda Night is an academic and resource fair for students to engage in college exploration, STEM activities, art demonstrations and music performances. (Jeremy Wadsworth / The Blade)
Story - HM - Jen Dyer’s first-grade class uses magnetic boards with letters and letter combinations to spell out words or create new ones by replacing pieces of the old in a new phonics program that teaches them to read. (Aaron Self / The Canton Repository)
