Feature - 1st placeRugged Maniac is like recess for grown-ups, except the playground has a three-story water slide, trampolines, and a fire jump, and there’s a huge festival right in the middle of everything. There were 26 obstacle stations. The "Feed the Beast" obstacle devours a competitor. (Fred Squillante/The Columbus Dispatch)
Feature - 2nd placeGwen Acheampong walks past the infinity flag as fellow eighth grade students from Olentangy Orange Middle School take a tour of the National Veterans Memorial and Museum in Columbus. (Adam Cairns/The Columbus Dispatch)
Feature - 3rd placeDavid Cherneta of Columbus picks strawberries while his son David Cherneta sleeps in his stroller. David along with his wife Viktoria Cherneta were picking strawberries for jam, smoothies and freezing later. They were at Hann Farms south of Columbus. (Eric Albrecht/The Columbus Dispatch)
Feature - HMBranson Bennett, of Evansville, Indiana, sneaks in a nap while selling his leather accessories during the Delaware Arts Festival in downtown Delaware. (Shane Flanigan/ThisWeek Community News)
Feature - HMA mural sunflower rises like the sun on a rainy inaugural "Avenue for All" festival on Parsons Avenue. For what is believed to be the first time in the city’s history, Parsons Avenue was closed from East Whittier Street to East Deshler Avenue. Parsons Avenue has been a dividing line, but the festival hopes to make it a focal point for the whole community - a place for everyone. The mural was painted in 2010 by Kelley Daniel. (Fred Squillante/The Columbus Dispatch)
General News - 1st placeRex Fulk, of Hope Baptist Church, puts his hand on a memorial wall exhibit on the same spot of another's hand on the opposite side of the wall while it makes its way by truck down Jackson St. during the annual Toledo Memorial Day Parade. (Amy E. Voigt/The Blade)
General News - 2nd placeVietnam veteran Jarvis Kettlehake salutes as a Memorial Day Parade float representing a fallen veteran passes by along Fountain Avenue. (Bill Lackey/Springfield News-Sun)
General News - 3rd placeWW II Veteran Corporal Bob Romaker, 93, sits with his great-grandson Jacobi Romaker, 7, during a Memorial Day Service at Fort Meigs Cemetery in Perrysburg. (Jeremy Wadsworth/The Blade)
General News - HMHayden Snider helps clean his grandparent's kitchen that was severely damaged in the Memorial Day tornado, as the family begins to recovery after Celina was struck by an EF3 tornado on Memorial Day. (Daniel Melograna/The Daily Standard)
General News - HMYoung people light candles in memory of Jaykwon "Bobby" Sharp, 14, who was shot and killed near this spot on Shady Lane, where Shady Lane Elementary School and Sherwood Middle School are located. Sharp was an 8th grader at the middle school. (Fred Squillante/The Columbus Dispatch)
Portrait - 1st placeChickasaw Firefighters Randy Roeckner (left) and his brother, Rick (right) are retiring from the Chickasaw Fire Department along with Kurt Dippold, not pictured. Rany Roeckner served on the fire department for 40 years with the younger Rick serving 37. Dippold served 25 years. (Daniel Melograna/The Daily Standard)
Portrait - 2nd placeBallet Met dancers Jessica Brown and Leiland Charles perform "By Liang" with choreographer Edwaard Liang, seated, inside the Columbus studio. Brown is in her 14th season with the dance company, and Charles is in his second. (Adam Cairns/The Columbus Dispatch)
Portrait - 3rd placeLindsey Sequeira, Battelle associate researcher and analytical chemist, has methane bubbles ignited in her hand for the crowd to see during the "Big Science Celebration" hands-on event to close out the inaugural COSI Science Festival in Columbus. (Shane Flanigan/ThisWeek Community News)
Sports Feature - 1st placeArchbold's TJ Rice (5) cheers after scoring a run during the Division III district championship game against Lake at Defiance High School. Archbold defeated Lake 15-0. (Rebecca Benson/The Blade)
Sports Feature - 2nd placeKaylee Potrzebowski, 9, smiles after getting a foul ball as the Toledo Mud Hens host the Louisville Bats during a baseball game at Fifth Third Field in Toledo. (Rebecca Benson/The Blade)
Sports Feature - 3rd placeWesterville South's Nathan Fitzgerald leads his team out of the locker room for the second half against Olentangy Orange at Westerville South High School. (Shane Flanigan/ThisWeek Community News)
Sports Feature - HMCincinnati Reds pitcher Cody Reed (23) reacts after striking out the last batter of the game against the San Francisco Giants at Great American Ball Park in Cincinnati. Cincinnati won 9-2. (Kareem Elgazzar/The Cincinnati Enquirer)
Sports Feature - HMJackson's Matt Hicks (back to camera) and Ethan Kulich celebrate with their teammates after defeating Hoover 4-3 in eight innings in the Div. I district championship game in North Canton. (Scott Heckel/The Canton Repository)
Spot News - 1st placeMay - First Place Spot News Meghan Porter holds her frightened daughter, Gemma, 6, as they walk through their destroyed Beavercreek neighborhood. A series of overnight tornados destroyed hundreds of homes in the Dayton and surrounding areas. (Bill Lackey/Springfield News-Sun)
Spot News - 2nd placeMifflin Township firefighter Jason Frankle helps transport a baby kitten that was rescued by firefighters during a two-alarm fire at a northeast Columbus apartment building near 5918 Fallston Ct. The kitten received oxygen from paramedics at the scene. (Kyle Robertson/The Columbus Dispatch)
Spot News - 3rd placeA Beavercreek resident pulls his hair in frustration as he walks through the debris left behind after an overnight tornado devastated his neighborhood. (Bill Lackey/Springfield News-Sun)
Sports - 1st placeSylvania Southview's Michael Melville (10) scores against Anthony Wayne catcher Shane Williams (4) during the sixth inning of a Division I regional semifinal at Steller Field in Bowling Green. Southview defeated Anthony Wayne, 7-2. (Jeremy Wadsworth/The Blade)
Sports - 2nd placeColumbus Blue Jackets left wing Nick Foligno (right) dives to shoot the puck against Boston Bruins defenseman Torey Krug during the third period in Game 3 of the NHL Stanley Cup Playoffs Eastern Conference semifinals at Nationwide Arena in Columbus. (Kyle Robertson/The Columbus Dispatch)
Sports - 3rd placeFC Cincinnati forward Fanendo Adi (9) goes for a header on goal in the second half of an MLS soccer match against the New York Red Bulls at Nippert Stadium in Cincinnati. New York Red Bulls won 2-0. (Kareem Elgazzar/The Cincinnati Enquirer)
Sports - HMMinster's Adam Ketner (7) tags Lincolnview's Carson Fox out at home plate in the Division IV district semifinals at Veterans Field in Coldwater. (Daniel Melograna/The Daily Standard)
Sports - HMToledo Mud Hens' Jacob Robson (7) jumps up to catch a pop fly as a fan catches the ball during a game against the Columbus Clippers at Fifth Third Field in Toledo. (Rebecca Benson/The Blade)
Story - 1st placeAndrew Slife of Perrysburg Township Fire Department feels his way through cords and wires as part of a training exercise for BGSU's State Fire School in Toledo. (Rebecca Benson/The Blade)
Story - 2nd placeAires Holland of Columbus swings in the community park while waiting the start of the Lockbourne Memorial Day Parade in southern Franklin County. (Eric Albrecht/The Columbus Dispatch)
Story - 3rd placeColumbus Blue Jackets season ticket holders Mella and Jack Curtis make their way to the front of Nationwide Arena before Game 3 of the NHL Stanley Cup Playoffs Eastern Conference semifinals. (Kyle Robertson/The Columbus Dispatch)
