Feature - 1st place - A group of young girls get an up close view as Ashlynn Lear, 15, milks her dairy cow Saturday during the Clark County Fair. (Bill Lackey / Springfield News-Sun)
Feature - 2nd place - A hot air balloon, inflating for the balloon glow at the annual Champaign County Balloon Fest in Urbana is recorded on the back of a spectators camera as she holds it up to take a picture. (Bill Lackey / Springfield News-Sun)
Feature - 3rd place - Nora Baker, of Ohio City, screams with delight as her father, Sam Baker, yells "Tidal Wave!" and sprays water at her at Rocky River Park. (Lisa DeJong / The Plain Dealer)
General News - 1st place - Teloa Lee tries to cool off from the heat and humidity with a fan on the stoop of her apartment which has no windows that can be opened. (Jeff Hinckley / The Columbus Dispatch)
General News - 2nd place - A woman kisses a soldier of the 112th Engineer Battalion (Task Force Predator), to arrive for a homecoming ceremony at the Lakewood Civic Auditorium. (Lisa DeJong / The Plain Dealer)
General News - 3rd place - Aydan Gillum, 5, (right) of Brunswick, stands on his tippy toes so his dad could see his sign as his dad pulls up in a bus during a welcome home ceremony for the 112th Engineer Battalion at the Lakewood Civic Auditorium. Aydan is watching his father, SFC Brian Gillum of the 112th Engineer Battalion (Task Force Predator), come home for the first time since Christmas of last year. On left is Aydan's mother Katie Gillum (Brian's wife). (Lisa DeJong / The Plain Dealer)
Portrait - 1st place - Marie Hammond is an ex-offender who runs a residential transition program for women. Seen here is a poster in a living room that shows faceless women, above, and ex-offenders who wanted to anonymous below. (Jeff Hinckley / The Columbus Dispatch)
Portrait - 2nd place - Ben Deutschle (left) a volunteer diver at the Columbus Zoo and Aquarium cleans the Coral Reef while Evan Dougherty looks at fish with his father Rob (not pictured). (Tom Dodge / The Columbus Dispatch)
Portrait - 3rd place - Allison Shaeffer, of Zanesville, occupies herself with a American Flag that was given to her by the United State Army during the Red, White and Boom Parade in downtown Columbus. (Neal C. Lauron / The Columbus Dispatch)
Spot News - 1st place - North Kingsville fire chief Brian Lehtonen pours water on a shed fire at 2900 Bugby Road Ext. in North Kingsville. Ashtabula Township F.D. also responded to the small, but intense blaze. (William A. West / The (Ashtabula) Star Beacon)
Spot News - 2nd place - Severe thunderstorms with high winds rolled through northern Clark County and part of Champaign County with home on Crabill and Burnett Roads among the hardest hit. with eight utility poles down, trees destroyed and ross damaged. (Marshall Gorby / Springfield News-Sun)
Spot News - 3rd place - Clark County Sheriff’s Deputies searched Saturday afternoon for an armed man in the area between Rebert Pike and Old Mill Road, south of Interstate 70, after two gunshot victims were found in a vehicle on Old Mill Road, just north of the I-70 overpass. One of the victims died at the scene and the other was flown by medical helicopter to Miami Valley Hospital with multiple gunshot wounds, said Sheriff Gene Kelly. (Marshall Gorby / Springfield News-Sun)
Sports - 1st place - A young fan reaches out for a pizza box during a give-away during a Columbus Clippers game at Huntington Park. (Neal C. Lauron / The Columbus Dispatch)
Sports - 2nd place - Hilliard Bearcat's Alex DeWitt (left) tackles Westerville Worm's Kalen King during the Columbus High School Olympic Rugby at Beekman Park at Ohio State University. (Kyle Robertson / The Columbus Dispatch)
Sports - 3rd place - Madison Gibson, 9, starts the 50 yard backstroke for Foxboro during the Suburban East Swim League Championships at Hilltop Swim Club. (Eric George / ThisWeek Newspapers (Columbus))
Sports - HM - Candice King rides Toronto, owned by AAA Equestrian, in the second round to win the $30,000 Cleveland Grand Prix at the 2011 Chagrin Valley Hunter Jumper Classic at the Cleveland MetroParks polo field in Moreland Hills. (Peggy Turbett / The Plain Dealer)
Story - 1st place - Columbus Crew fans celebrate their way against the Portland Timbers at the Crew Stadium. (Neal C. Lauron / The Columbus Dispatch)
Story - 2nd place - Kalei Nelms (9) of Columbus puts a chunk of ice on his head to cool down during the Red, White and Boom Parade in downtown Columbus. (Neal C. Lauron / The Columbus Dispatch)
Story - 3rd place - Rides light up the night sky at the Franklin County Fair. (Eric George / ThisWeek Newspapers (Columbus))
