Feature - 1st place - Pedestrians cross Washington Street as the sun sets in Toledo. (Jeremy Wadsworth / The Blade)
NEFeature - 2nd place - Marvin Nisley, of Millersburg, kneels down in prayer for the invocation before the start of the Buckeye Rodeo event at the Franklin County Fair in Hilliard. (Shane Flanigan / ThisWeek Community News)
Feature - 3rd place - Mariah Whetstone crawls through the mud on one of the obstacles during the National Trail Parks and Recreation's Mud Mania. (Bill Lackey / Springfield News-Sun)
Feature - HM - A person enters the new Renaissance Hotel through a prism doorway in Toledo. (Jeremy Wadsworth / The Blade)
SPFeature - HM - Ohio Machine goalkeeper Scott Rodgers holds up campers as they swing from his biceps before the start of the Urban Lacrosse Summer Clinic at Barack Community Recreation Center in Columbus. The clinic is a joint effort between U.S. Lacrosse and Columbus Recreation and Parks. (Joshua A. Bickel / The Columbus Dispatch)
General News - 1st place - Kayla Ballez hugs her son Damarco, 1, at her home on Elm Street in Toledo. The family's home was ransacked and they were held hostage during a home invasion the previous night. (Jeremy Wadsworth / The Blade)
General News - 2nd place - Rochelle Fernando, from Fairborn High School, reacts as her noodle bridge collapses during the Engineering Innovation Bridge Competition at Clark State Community College in Springfield. Teams comprised of students int the Engineering Innovation program, sponsored by Clark State and Johns Hopkins University, built bridges with 250 grams for pasta and epoxy. The bridges then were compared to see how much weight they could hold before they broke. The winning bridge held 30 pounds. (Bill Lackey / Springfield News-Sun)
General News - 3rd place - Officer Blair Stewart hugs her son Jaeson Lee, 7, after being dismissed from final formation as Columbus Police Department graduated its 127th recruit class, comprised of 47 new officers, at the Columbus Police Academy. (Barbara J. Perenic / The Columbus Dispatch)
AGeneral News - HM - Terina Allen, sister of Sam DuBose, addresses the press outside the offices of Hamilton County Prosecuting Attorney Joe Deters, following his announcement that there will not be a third trial of former University of Cincinnati police officer Ray Tensing in the killing of unarmed motorist of Sam DuBose. (Kareem Elgazzar / Cincinnati Enquirer)
AGeneral News - HM - Auzten Morgan (front) and Anthony Mayfield do front hand springs as several dancers hold an impromptu dance-off in the middle of Broad Street during Red, White & Boom festivities downtown Columbus on July 3. A parade and fireworks were highlights of the annual Independence Day event. (Adam Cairns / The Columbus Dispatch)
Portrait - 1st place - Ron Wagner looks at 1959 King Midget on display at an auction of old cars and trucks at Summit Motorsports Park in Norwalk. (Jeremy Wadsworth / The Blade)
APortrait - 2nd place - Chase Fulmer, 15, hops into the engine of a KC-135 refueling tanker plane at the Ohio Air National Guard base at Rickenbacker. The 121st Air Refueling Wing named Fulmer, who has autism, an honorary pilot for a day and gave him a tour of the aircraft as well as taught him how to marshal a plane out to the runway. (Adam Cairns / The Columbus Dispatch)
Portrait - 3rd place - The date is July 1, 1898 and Bob and Jean Kreisel were dressed in period clothing and greeting visitors in the school house at Ohio Village on July 1, 2017. They told visitors what school was like in 1898. Both Bob and Jean are 84. Bob is a retired school teacher for Columbus schools. (Fred Squillante / The Columbus Dispatch)
Portrait - HM - AJ Goin is a professional drone pilot who competes in races via the Drone Racing League (airing on ESPN). He is shown in his goggles that allow him to see what a camera attached to his drone sees as he races. (Fred Squillante / The Columbus Dispatch)
ASports Feature - 1st place - Delaware Hayes High School head football coach Mike Golden oversees summer conditioning. Golden missed part of last season while recovering from lung cancer. (Adam Cairns / The Columbus Dispatch)
SPSports Feature - 2nd place - Jefferson's Owen Neary, 9, of Blacklick, watches the competition from under the lifeguard chair during the CCSL finals meet at The Ohio State University McCorkle Aquatic Pavilion in Columbus. (Shane Flanigan / ThisWeek Community News)
Sports Feature - 3rd place - The Dragon Dream Team stretches out before practice at Rex Lake in Akron. The team was preparing for the fifth annual Dragons on the Lake Dragon Boat Festival where more than 35 dragon boat teams will race on Rex Lake. The Dragon Dream Team, Ohio's only breast cancer-survivor dragon boat team, is using some of the funds to attempt its first international competition later this year. (Leah Klafczynski / Akron Beacon Journal)
sp Sports Feature - HM - As summer draws to a close and kickoff nears Ohio State quarterback J.T. Barnett studies film and takes notes at the Woody Hayes Athletic Center in preparation of the season. (Eric Albrecht / The Columbus Dispatch)
Spot News - 1st place - St. Clair Township police officer Jaspar Cannon stands near the scene of a fatal accident on Old Fredericktown Road. (Patricia Schaeffer / The (Lisbon) Morning Journal)
Spot News - 2nd place - Bing Bing Jiang, working on her doctorate at University of South Florida walks through water after visiting a experiment site that was submerged at least four feet of water that capture phosphorus and nitrogen near the South Fork Licking River in Buckeye Lake. Rain waters from the night before caused flooding in Buckeye Lake. (Kyle Robertson / The Columbus Dispatch)
MT Spot News - 3rd place - Anthony Osborne, 5, of London helps his grandmother Cheryl Dwyer unload trash into a trailer at her home in London. He was helping out by using his battery operated John Deere gator to empty trash that came from her flooded basement. (Eric Albrecht / The Columbus Dispatch)
Sports - 1st place - Enver Hallili of Brooklyn, New York (left) defeats Wesley Tucker of Toledo by decision in a Welterweight match at the Huntington Center in Toledo. (Jeremy Wadsworth / The Blade)
SSports - 2nd place - FC Cincinnati forward Djiby Fall (9) is tackled from behind in the second half during a USL match against Harrisburg City Islanders at Nippert Stadium in Cincinnati. (Kareem Elgazzar / Cincinnati Enquirer)
SSports - 3rd place - Cincinnati Reds third baseman Eugenio Suarez (7) fields a ground ball in the eighth inning as Chicago Cubs third baseman Kris Bryant (17) runs to third base at Great American Ball Park in Cincinnati. (Kareem Elgazzar / Cincinnati Enquirer)
Sports - HM - Rally Super Stock Champion Karyle Murphy of Hilton, New York (left) crosses the finish for first against Jenna Wolfe of Conneaut, Ohio (center) and Tucker Copeland of of Lyons, Georgia (right) at the 80th FirstEnergy All-American Soap Box Derby at Derby Downs in Akron. (Leah Klafczynski / Akron Beacon Journal)
Story - 1st place - Erica Blake views a railroad engine resting in 95 feet of water at Bonne Terre Mine. (Andy Morrison / The Blade)
MTStory - 2nd place - Parade marchers sing the Star-Spangled Banner as they prepare to march during the Doo Dah Parade in Columbus. (Joshua A. Bickel / The Columbus Dispatch)
Story - 3rd place - People arrive for a Naturalization Ceremony at Sauder Village in Archbold. 81 people became US citizens. (Jeremy Wadsworth / The Blade)
- Ohio State Buckeyes quarterback J.T. Barrett (16) enters the field before the start of their game against Penn State Nittany Lions in Ohio Stadium on October 28, 2017. (Kyle Robertson / Kyle Robertson / Dispatch)
- Muskingum County Sheriff Matt Lutz stands next to the footprints placed on the floor for suspects to face the right direction when getting their mugshots taken in the Muskingum County Jail. ( / Chris Crook/Times Recorder)
- Emily Valiton of Toledo dressed as a scary puppet scares people at the Distracted Haunted House Saturday, September 29, 2017, in Perrysburg, Ohio. (Jeremy Wadsworth / The Blade)
