Feature - 1st place Lilly Sheets of Circleville glides around the midway on the Wave Swinger during the Ohio State Fair in Columbus. (Adam Cairns / The Columbus Dispatch)
Feature - 2nd place Vince D'Andrea holds his daughter Pia D'Andrea aloft while his wife Whitney d'Andrea relaxes at the other end of the hammock at Whetstone Park. (Eric Albrecht / The Columbus Dispatch)
Feature - 3rd place Faye and Ed Laudenschlager celebrated their 40th anniversary at the Pickerington Senior Center with square dancing, much like their wedding day four decades ago. Faye, wearing a square dancing dress, shows off her panties to guests. (Fred Squillante / The Columbus Dispatch)
General News - 1st place Columbus Police talk to a protestor who was attached to the bottom of a wooden tripod protesting the government agency ICE U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement.The protestors had set up a wooden tripod to block traffic and erected a sign with a protestor atop to call attention to the ICE office inside the LeVeque Tower.Both protesters as all as some from the crowd nearby were arrested at the demonstration. (Eric Albrecht / The Columbus Dispatch)
General News - 2nd place Donovan Nicholas sits by himself during a recess in his sentencing at Champaign County Common Pleas Court in Urbana. Donovan was sentenced to life in prison with no chance of parole for 28 years for the murder of his step mom Heidi Fay Taylor. (Eric Albrecht / The Columbus Dispatch)
General News - 3rd place John O'Day, 83, of Orient, walks across Broad Street as the sun peeks out after a line of storms passes just north of downtown during the Red, White and Boom festivities in Columbus. (Adam Cairns / The Columbus Dispatch)
General News - HM1 Drum Major Konner Barr catches his baton during The Ohio State University Marching Band performance with the Columbus Symphony Orchestra at the Picnic with the Pops at the Columbus Commons. (Brooke LaValley / The Columbus Dispatch)
General News - HM2 Ethan and Kati Downey of Waterville take their son Barrett through the Rebecca Louise Law: Community installation, which is a floral representation of northwest Ohio, after a tour of the Toledo Museum of Art designed for babies. (Jeremy Wadsworth / The Blade)
Portrait - 1st place Makenzie Palmeri, a seventh grader at Waterloo Middle School, is diagnosed with Rhabdomyosarcoma, a rare type of cancer with 300 cases a year. Visible scars remain from her March surgery to remove the tumor. (Lisa Scalfaro / Record-Courier)
Portrait - 2nd place Philip Elson of Port Jefferson takes a drag of his cigarette before driving into the arena for the full street stock category during the Logan County Fair demolition derby in Bellefontaine. (Adam Cairns / The Columbus Dispatch)
Portrait - 3rd place 18-year-old Zeke Dees of Mechanicsburg stands beside his family pond wearing his myomo MyoPro brace. Dees suffered an arm injury on an ATV when he was 8-years-old and lost much of the ability to use his left arm until he got the MyoPro nearly a year ago. (Adam Cairns / The Columbus Dispatch)
Portrait - HM Andrew Leslie shares a moment with his 2-year-old dog Major on his truck at his residence in Perrysburg Township. Major was adopted by Andrew Leslie's girlfriend, Autumn Harvey, in 2016, but due to their work schedules and other factors it became hard for them to care for the pit bull mixed dog. They re-homed the dog with someone Harvey knew from work. The couple would later to find out the the dog was in poor condition. Major was emaciated with sores on his body when they finally got to him. He now lives back with Harvey and Leslie. (Kurt Steiss / The Blade)
Sports - 1st place FC Cincinnati defender Forrest Lasso (3) is punched in the face by Charlotte Independence goalkeeper Andrew Dykstra (50) on an attempt on goal in the first half of a USL match at Nippert Stadium in Cincinnati. (Kareem Elgazzar / The Cincinnati Enquirer)
Sports - 2nd place Lehigh Valley's Dylan Cozens (31) goes for a catch on fly ball hit by a Toledo player at Fifth Third Field in Toledo. (Kurt Steiss / The Blade)
Sports - 3rd place Lehigh Valley's Dean Anna (8), left, and Dylan Cozens (31) collide after going for a fly ball during a game against the Toledo Mud Hens at Fifth Third Field in Toledo. (Kurt Steiss / The Blade)
Sports - HM Dublin Atlantic's Jake Wadsworth competes in the age 9-10, 25-meter backstroke during the NEW League Championships at Dublin Community Pool North. (Shane Flanigan / ThisWeek Community News)
Sports Feature - 1st place Cincinnati Reds second baseman Scooter Gennett walks up the dugout steps in the third inning of a game against the Pittsburgh Pirates at Great American Ball Park in Cincinnati. (Kareem Elgazzar / The Cincinnati Enquirer)
Sports Feature - 2nd place Dublin Muirfield's Brady Delmore (right) pinches teammate Brayden Swenson's cheeks before their heat in the age 9-10, 100-meter freestyle relay at the NEW League Championships at Dublin Community Pool North. (Shane Flanigan / ThisWeek Community News)
Sports Feature - 3rd place Fans react to a goal by France's Paul Pogba while watching the World Cup final against Croatia at Fado Irish Pub at Easton. France won the match 4-2. (Adam Cairns / The Columbus Dispatch)
Sports Feature - HM Cincinnati Reds second baseman Dilson Herrera (15) looks back toward the dugout in celebration after hitting a pinch-hit walk-off single to win the game as St. Louis Cardinals first baseman Matt Carpenter (right) walks off the field at Great American Ball Park in Cincinnati. (Kareem Elgazzar / The Cincinnati Enquirer)
Spot News - 1st place July - 1st place Spot News Kurt Steiss/The Blade Alfreada Radford Tucker, grandmother of Lamar Richardson, is distraught as she approaches the police line as people gather near the scene of an officer-involved shooting near LaGrange and Hudson streets in Toledo. Richardson, the 25-year-old man who was shot and killed by police, was described by Toledo Police as a “person of interest” in multiple robberies. Police fired at him after he “produced a weapon." (Kurt Steiss / The Blade)
Spot News - 2nd place David Crow's neighbor looks out her door as an officer armed with a shotgun stands by during a standoff. (Patricia Schaeffer / The (Lisbon) Morning Journal)
Spot News - 3rd place Canton firefighter/paramedics Debbie Dawson (left) and Jimmy Mills walk through water on Spring Avenue NE and 14th Street NE after a storm swept through Canton causing flash flooding. (Scott Heckel / The Canton Repository)
Story - 1st place Smash It's Jeff Clark Jr. gets pelted with mud flying off the back of Seth Gibson's car during the Logan County Fair demolition derby in Bellefontaine. (Adam Cairns / The Columbus Dispatch)
Story - 2nd place Stephen Garland, program director for the The Hardy Center, pats Deiondre Ray,10, on the head while he walks out of the auditorium in the Linden neighborhood of Columbus. The Center was created by Garland in partnership when the previous inhabitants, a local church, wanted to dedicate their building to a good cause. Garland worked with the group to convert the structure into a space for local kids. (Brooke LaValley / The Columbus Dispatch)
Story - 3rd place Fans reach for a foul ball from International League catcher Francisco Mejia (12) during the fourth inning of the Minor League Baseball Triple-A All-Star Game on at Huntington Park in Columbus. (Joshua A. Bickel / The Columbus Dispatch)
