Feature - 1st place - Lloyd and Pat Wilson of Washingtonville read the paper as they wait for their laundry to run through its cycles at the Leetonia Laundromat. (Patricia Shaeffer / The (Lisbon) Morning Journal)
Feature - 2nd place - Cousins Josh Welsch and Anna Jones, both 6, wait for Anna's mother state Sen. Shannon Jones, to be sworn in at the Statehouse. ( / )
Feature - 3rd place - Ohio State Buckeyes head basketball coach reacts to the student section as they wave cutouts of Matta's likeness just prior to the NCAA basketball game against Penn State at Value City Arena. (Neal C. Lauron / The Columbus Dispatch)
Feature - HM - North Ridgeville resident Mike Vrbancic and his 18-month-old son, Luca, ventured into the planetarium at the Lake Erie Nature & Science Center in Bay Village. (Lynn Ischay / The Plain Dealer)
Feature - HM - Cydne Roush of Parkersburg, West Virginia cheers from her wheelchair during the Athletic Championships Cheering contest at the Columbus Convention Center. Roush is a member of the Ohio Valley All Stars Special Needs Twinkles cheering squad. The team practices once a week and participates in a contest once a month. (Neal C. Lauron / The Columbus Dispatch)
General News - 1st place - The flag draped casket of Clark County Sheriff's Deputy Suzanne Waughtel Hopper is carried to the grave site at Myers Cemetery as hundreds of law enforcement officers stand at attention. (Bill Lackey / Springfield News-Sun)
General News - 2nd place - Desmond Rorie (left), Akinola Gonzalez (center) and Justin Woody, pause to recite the Lords Prayer prior to the MLK Talent Show at the Palace Theater in Canton. (Scott Heckel / The (Canton) Repository)
General News - 3rd place - Chase Edman, 13, signs the picture he drew in memory of Clark County Ohio Sheriff's Deputy Suzanne Waughtel Hopper as he leaves it outside the bullet riddled Enon Beach trailer where she was killed in a shoot out New Years Day. Chase said he met Deputy Hopper when she was the D.A.R.E. officer at his school. (Bill Lackey / Springfield News-Sun)
General News - HM - Michael Workman, 55, brushes the hair from Michael Bogen's shoulders after giving him a spray of oil sheen to finish off his hair cut and moustache trim at the Homeless Stand Down at the Masonic Auditorium. The three-day event was staged by 1,100 interreligious volunteers and offered guests breakfast, lunch, clothing, health screenings, massages, haircuts and, most important of all, dignity. (Lynn Ischay / The Plain Dealer)
Portrait - 1st place - Heather Bowser, of Canfield, is a child of Agent Orange. Bowser was born with three missing fingers on the left hand and is missing part of one finger on her right hand. Here she holds a picture of her father William A. Morris, in Vietnam. Bowser was also born without her right leg. Bowser's father, who fought in Vietnam, always believed he was exposed to the chemical and passed it onto Heather. Bowser's father died when he was 50 years old of heart disease which they attribute to Agent Orange. (Lisa DeJong / The Plain Dealer)
Portrait - 2nd place - Jessica Lubergerof plays with her dog "Abby" on the floor. She has Down Syndrome and suffers from heart disease and hearing impairment. (Kyle Lanzer / Sun Newspapers)
Portrait - 3rd place - Linda and Tracy Thomson of rural Fairfield County stand in the ruins of their home, which was destroyed by fire. (Eric Albrecht / The Columbus Dispatch)
Spot News - 1st place - German Township patrolman Jeremy Blum is wounded in a police shootout with a gunman at Enon Beach trailer park in Mad River Township. Blum was shot in the arm and shoulder, and taken to Miami Valley Hospital. (Marshall Gorby / Springfield News-Sun)
Spot News - 2nd place - Scenes from Enon Beach where two police officers and a suspect were shot in a shootout New Years Day. (Bill Lackey / Springfield News-Sun)
Spot News - 3rd place - Columbiana firefighters drag a hose into position shortly after arriving at a blazing home at the Southern Terrace development on state Route 164. (Patricia Shaeffer / The (Lisbon) Morning Journal)
Sports - 1st place - Pryor looks at the confetti falling after the Buckeyes won the Sugar Bowl in New Orleans on January 4, 2011. (Columbus Dispatch photo by Fred Squillante) (FRED SQUILLANTE / FRED SQUILLANTE)
Sports - 2nd place - Columbus Blue Jackets left wing Rick Nash (61) tumbles over Detroit Red Wings goalie Joey MacDonald (31) in his shootout attempt. (Columbus Dispatch photo by Fred Squillante) (FRED SQUILLANTE / FRED SQUILLANTE)
Sports - 3rd place - Carrollton's John Lowdermilk drives after a loose ball in the fourth guarter of their game against Logal Elm at North Canton. (Scott Heckel / The (Canton) Repository)
Story - 1st place - Noah Longyear, 6, yells for his cousin Caleb Freed, 4, (not in picture) to keep on pedaling during the Grand National Championship Finals at the Power Show Ohio in the Coliseum at the Ohio State Fairgrounds in Columbus. (Kyle Robertson / The Columbus Dispatch)
Story - 3rd place - Eleven-year-old Haley Nesser of Columbus square dances during a lesson with the Bucks and Does Singles Western Square Dance Club. (Jonathan Quilter / The Columbus Dispatch)
