Feature - 1st place - Body painting competitors Hannah Newmyer of Williard, (right) and Sharon Kelly of Troy, ride the escalator into the finals of the Arnold Classic bodybuilding competition at the Battelle Grand Ballroom in the Greater Columbus Convention Center on March 7, 2020. Newmyer was painted by Nancy Mayer of New London, and Kelly was painted by Karyn Fox of Cincinnati. (Adam Cairns / The Columbus Dispatch)
Feature - 2nd place - Due to the caronavirus, Carl Ruby, senior pastor at the Central Christian Church in Springfield, has to record his church services with his cell phone so his parishioners can watch them online. He mentioned to the church secretary that it was hard to preach to an empty church so she printed pictures of the parishioners and taped them to the pews. (Bill Lackey / Springfield News-Sun)
Feature - 3rd place - Charlie and Bridget Capper (left) race Levi and Dallas Hill during the annual Cardboard Classic Bobsled Races held at The Chiller ice skating rink. The 6th annual event was sponsored by the National Trail Parks and Recreation District. Teams of families and friends pushed the sleds, all made of cardboard, tape, glue with a pilot on board, down the ice. The teams raced against each other and the clock for prizes. (Bill Lackey / Springfield News-Sun)
Feature - HM - Tiffani Butcher, of Westerville, clings to a suspended panel as she navigates an obstacle course during a private family and friends night at the new Urban Air Adventure Park in Dublin. (Shane Flanigan / ThisWeek Community News)
Feature - HM - Wren Bensman rubs her mother Katie’s shaved head during the 18th annual St. Baldrick’s fundraiser at the Chickasaw Fire Department. Both Katie Bensman and her husband, Matt, shaved their heads in honor of their daughter, Violet, 6, whom they lost to brain cancer in August. The Bensman family raised more than $3,000 for the event. The event raised more than $10,600 total this year and a total of more than $97,200 since it began. (Daniel Melograna / The Daily Standard)
General News - 1st place - Stefanie Bloom of Medina has her temperature taken before donating blood at the American Red Cross Donation Center in Akron. As a precautionary measure, everyone that enters the building must have their temperature taken before donating. (Jeff Lange / Akron Beacon Journal)
General News - 2nd place - John Appold, who works business development at the locally-owned brewery, is reflected on a mirror as he fills jugs with 70 percent alcohol hand sanitizer for Toledo Police Department officers at Maumee Bay Brewing Company in Toledo. The brewing company is among the breweries and distilleries across the country producing their own hand sanitizer because of a shortage traditional hand sanitizer products due to COVID-19. BIZ Sanitizer25 (Kurt Steiss / The Blade)
General News - 3rd place - New Bremen school bus driver Jackie Crites works to sanatize the busses as deep cleaning continues at New Bremen High School. Schools were shut down for 3-weeks because of the Coronavirus by Ohio Governor Mike Dewine. (Daniel Melograna / The Daily Standard)
General News - HM - Brynn Marshall, 6, and her brother Collin, 9, play on the closed playground in Put-In-Bay on South Bass Island, onMarch 26, 2020. (Rebecca Benson / The Blade)
Illustration - 1st place - The porchetta focaccia sandwich, tuscan spiced pork belly and shoulder, fennel, arugula and hot pepper aioli, pictured, at The Wheel in Cincinnati's Oakley neighborhood. (Kareem Elgazzar / The Cincinnati Enquirer)
Illustration - 2nd place - Brown sugar pie at the new Pearl restaurant in downtown Dublin. (Kyle Robertson / The Columbus Dispatch)
Illustration - 3rd place - Nashville Hot Chicken sandwich at The Crispy Coop in Columbus. (Kyle Robertson / The Columbus Dispatch)
Portrait - 1st place - Vilma Acala, who speaks very little English and has health problems, must have information about the COVID-19 Coronavirus translated into Spanish in Toledo. Her grandchildren Max Rodriguez, 8, and Rosamaria Martinez, 14, are in the background. (Jeremy Wadsworth / The Blade)
Portrait - 2nd place - Fairy Goodmothers president Jenna Homan holds up one of the donated prom dresses inside the gym of the old Beck Elementary School in Schumacher Place. With schools being closed due to the coronavirus, many proms may get cancelled, thus forcing the non-profit to put the 3,200 dresses, shoes and jewelry back in storage. (Adam Cairns / The Columbus Dispatch)
Portrait - 3rd place - Rev. Prentiss Anderson, who was a member of Lee and the Leopards, sings during an interview at the J. Frank Troy Senior Center in Toledo. The group is credited with the first release on Gordy Records, "Come Into My Palace," in 1962. (Jeremy Wadsworth / The Blade)
Sports Feature - 1st place - Members of the Dayton Flyers women's basketball team reach for confetti after winning the A10 conference tournament by defeating VCU 52-48. (Erik Schelkun / Elsestar Images)
Sports Feature - 2nd place - Start players swarm head coach Matt Wortham after winning 57-53 in an Division I basketball district final game against Sylvania Northview at the University of Toledo's Savage Arena. (Kurt Steiss / The Blade)
Sports Feature - 3rd place - Marion Local's Bryce Moeller (11) covers his face in disappointment after fouling New Bremen's Nola Bornhorst in the closing seconds of overtime in the Division IV district semifinals at Wapakoneta High School. (Daniel Melograna / The Daily Standard)
Sports Feature - HM - Akron forward Xeyrius Williams (center) is mobbed by teammates after the Zips clinched the number one seed after defeating Kent State, 79-76, at James A. Rhodes Arena in Akron. (Jeff Lange / Akron Beacon Journal)
Sports Feature - HM - GlenOak’s Chloe Lindsey and Lexi Kleptach celebrate after defeating Eastlake North during their DIvision regional championship game at the Canton Civic Center. (Scott Heckel / The Canton Repository)
Spot News - 1st place - The driver of a Porsche drove off the left side of the road in the three thousand block of Springfield-Xenia Road and struck two mailboxes, a fence, two cars and a camper parked in front of a house. The driver was not injured in the crash that left the Porsche inside the camper. (Bill Lackey / Springfield News-Sun)
Spot News - 2nd place - A Springfield Township firefighter and a member of the Ohio Highway Patrol look over a stolen Jeep Grand Cherokee after the driver had to be cut out of the vehicle on South Bird Road. The driver was fleeing law enforcement when she struck the SUV in the foreground and lost control. She was taken by Mobile Intensive Care Unit to Miami Valley Hospital with serious injuries. The male passenger was not injured and was taken into custody. The driver of the SUV that they struck was not injured. (Bill Lackey / Springfield News-Sun)
Spot News - 3rd place - Cincinnati firefighters work to extinguish a dumpster fire, in the 300 block of Elm Street in Cincinnati. (Kareem Elgazzar / The Cincinnati Enquirer)
Spot News - HM - No injuries were reported in a six-vehicle crash on Sawmill Parkway between O'Connell Street and Woodcutter Drive that closed southbound traffic in Powell. (Shane Flanigan / ThisWeek Community News)
Sports - 1st place - Aiden Timperley, 7, of Columbus stacks and unstacks cup during a Cup Stacking Individual event at Bricker Hall during the Arnold Sports Festival at the Ohio Expo Center in Columbus. (Kyle Robertson / The Columbus Dispatch)
Sports - 2nd place - Tiffin Calvert's Blake Ronski (12) fouls Parkway's Dylan Hughes (20) in the fourth quarter of their Division IV regional semifinal game at the BGSU Stroh Center. Parkway defeated Tiffin, 44-42. (Daniel Melograna / The Daily Standard)
Sports - 3rd place - Dayton's Obi Toppin soars to the dunk over Jamison Battle of George Washington. during the 2nd half of action at UD Arena. Dayton defeated GW 76-51 (Erik Schelkun / Elsestar Images)
Sports - HM - Columbus Blue Jackets center Stefan Matteau (23) fights Vancouver Canucks center Zack MacEwen (71) during the second period of the NHL hockey game at Nationwide Arena in Columbus. (Adam Cairns / The Columbus Dispatch)
Story - 1st place - The sunset shows behind the Maumee Indoor Theatre in Maumee, on Friday, March 20, 2020. Although the theatre is not showing movies until further notice due to COVID-19, they are serving patrons "take out" popcorn 6 p.m. to 8 p.m. nightly. (Kurt Steiss / The Blade)
Story - 2nd place - Kent State students party on the front lawn of their home on Summit Street during the Fake Paddy's Day celebration, Saturday, March 14, 2020, in Kent. (Jeff Lange / Akron Beacon Journal)
Story - 3rd place - Ohio State Buckeyes come together to take on Illinois Fighting Illini before their game at Value City Arena in Columbus. (Kyle Robertson / The Columbus Dispatch)
