Feature - 1st place - Ron Woodyard and other kite boarders enjoys the winds and blue skys while kiteboarding at Alum Creek State Park. (Eric Albrecht / The Columbus Dispatch)
Feature - 2nd place - A contest to see who could find the most gummy worms in a plate full of whipped cream took place during a pep rally for John Glenn High School's boys basketball team. (Chris Crook / Zanesville Times Recorder)
Feature - 3rd place - Otterbein University junior Nora Gallagher takes advantage of well placed Adirondack chairs and the beautiful spring evening to get some class reading in. (Chris Russell / The Columbus Dispatch)
Feature - HM - Bailey Summerville, 5, enjoys a chocolate chip pancake at the Sparta restaurant in downtown Newark. She and Kiera Summerville of Heath stopped in for a late breakfast at the historic site. The restaurant is owned by the community based non profit, Project Main Street and works to provide entry level and re-entry level employment to disadvantaged people. (Chris Russell / The Columbus Dispatch)
General News - 1st place - Barbara Casados of Capes4Heroes wheels a rack of capes to the Ronald McDonald House of Central Ohio on Livingston Avenue. (Barbara J. Perenic / The Columbus Dispatch)
General News - 2nd place - Ohio Gov. John Kasich wins the Ohio primary and talks to his supporters during an event at Baldwin Wallace University in Berea, Ohio on March 15. (Kyle Robertson / The Columbus Dispatch)
General News - 3rd place - Nana Watson, president of the local NAACP (lefT) talks with Franklin County Common Pleas Juvenile Administrative Judge Kim A. Brown the Bethel AME Church. (Tom Dodge / The Columbus Dispatch)
Illustration - 1st place - Photo Illustration for story on Columbus water testing and how problems in Flint and Sebring might change those tests. (Chris Russell / The Columbus Dispatch)
Illustration - 2nd place - Croissants are made from scratch at Four Turns Bakery. (Chris Crook / Zanesville Times Recorder)
aIllustration - 3rd place - Valter's Chicken Sandwich at Valter's at Maennerchor on South High Street in Columbus. (Kyle Robertson / The Columbus Dispatch)
Portrait - 1st place - Richie Webber wears a shirt dedicated to his friend who lost his life from a heroin overdose. The friends bonded over athletics. (Molly Corfman / The News-Messenger)
Portrait - 2nd place - Aaron Bennington is a professional paintball referee and is reflected in his helmet. (Tom Dodge / The Columbus Dispatch)
Portrait - 3rd place - Suffering from cancer, Jenny Lozier stands behind a locked gate on Vause Road in a spot that was once part of a landfill for the Lockbourne Air Force Base from 1951 through 1979. Lozier believes that the hazardous waste once dumped in open trenches , polluted the water wells that Lockbourne once depended on and she is fighting to have the land capped. (Chris Russell / The Columbus Dispatch)
APortrait - HM - Yuliyan Stoyanov, a Bulgarian-born violinist and College Conservatory of Music alumnus from the University of Cincinnati, and current faculty member, pictured at his home in Madeira, is being deported after two rejected appeals. (Kareem Elgazzar / Cincinnati Enquirer)
Sports Feature - 1st place - Delta High School's Dustin Marteney celebrates after defeating Brendan Fitzgerald of Grandview Heights during their 138-pound Division III championship final match at the state wrestling individual tournament in Columbus. (Andy Morrison / The (Toledo) Blade)
Sports Feature - 2nd place - Columbus Blue Jackets goalie Joonas Korpisalo leads his team on to the ice before their game against Detroit Red Wings at Nationwide Arena in Columbus. (Kyle Robertson / The Columbus Dispatch)
SSports Feature - 3rd place - Fans wearing Statue of Liberty crowns as they enter the stadium for the first half of the United States men's national team World Cup qualifying game against Guatemala at Mapfre Stadium in Columbus. (Adam Cairns / The Columbus Dispatch)
Spot News - 1st place - Firefighters from Salineville and two other departments stood little chance of saving this vacant house on West Street after fire broke out. (Patricia Schaeffer / The (Lisbon) Morning Journal)
Spot News - 2nd place - Columbus and Hamilton Township firefighters extinguish the last of the flames at this brick home at Stockbridge Road and South Champion that was totally destroyed in an explosion on March 25. (Chris Russell / The Columbus Dispatch)
Spot News - 3rd place - Toledo firefighters battle smoke as they work to open a roof on a house fire on McGregor Lane. (Andy Morrison / The (Toledo) Blade)
Sports - 1st place - Stow's Lizzie Stefanov (top) and McKinley's Alandria Terrell go after a loose ball in the second quarter of their Div I regional semi final game at the Canton Civic Center. McKinley defeated Stow 45-27. (Scott Heckel / The (Canton) Repository)
Sports - 2nd place - Dominick Demas of Dublin Coffman wrestles Farouq Muhammed of Shaker Heights in a 145 lb. Div I semi-final match during the state wrestling tournament in Columbus. (Barbara J. Perenic / The Columbus Dispatch)
Sports - 3rd place - Toledo Walleye's Austin Wuthrich (15) lands hard after he is upended by Cincinnati Cyclones' Brett Wysopal (8) during the first period of their hockey game at the Huntington Center in Toledo. (Andy Morrison / The (Toledo) Blade)
AStory - 1st place - Donald Trump signs autographs for supporters after speaking at the Signature Flight Support hangar at Port Columbus International Airport on March 1. (Adam Cairns / The Columbus Dispatch)
AStory - 2nd place - Finalists pose for a selfie on stage taken by Cedric McMillan during the finals of the Arnold Classic at the Greater Columbus Convention Center. (Adam Cairns / The Columbus Dispatch)
Story - 2nd place - John Glenn's Austin Blatt and Matt Weir celebrate after the Muskies defeated Akron St. Vincent-St. Mary, 76-72, to claim the Division II state championship. (Shane Flanigan / Zanesville Times Recorder)
