Feature - 1st place - Drew Dilcher, graduating with a Bachelors Degree in Accounting, holds an umbrella while walking to the French Field House in the rain before Spring Commencement ceremonies at Ohio Stadium. (Brooke LaValley / The Columbus Dispatch)
Feature - 2nd place - An aerial view from a drone as David Perez, with AMD Finishes, spruces up the grounds around the hedges spelling out the city's name at the corner of Cherry and Summit streets in Toledo. (Kurt Steiss / The Blade)
Feature - 3rd place - Leonore Gaynier, 94, dances with Jim Patton, 85, during the Club K Dance Party at the Eleanor Kahle Senior Center in Toledo. (Jeremy Wadsworth / The Blade)
Feature - HM - Mother Stewart's Brewery held their first ever Crawl For the Roses as part of their Derby Day event celebrating the running of the Kentucky Derby. Instead of horses, however, Mother Stewart's race featured babies. Two heats of parents released their tiny thoroughbreds and cheered them on as they raced on all fours to the waiting arms of the other parent. Liam Zawada, 14-months, was the winner of the championship heat. He and his mother received an award for being the first Crawl for the Roses champion. (Bill Lackey / Springfield News-Sun)
Feature - HM - Columbus resident Karlina Riders (left) reacts as Erwin, a Harris’s hawk, attacks a piece of chicken during an intro To falconry class by Ohio School Of Falconry at Nature’s Nursery in Waterville. (Isaac Ritchey / The Blade)
General News - 1st place - Jim Irvine gives instruction during the range instruction part of a concealed carry course. Trainees are required three hours of instruction on the range. (Brooke LaValley / The Columbus Dispatch)
General News - 2nd place - A visitor is framed by partially torn window decorations as she makes her way past the auditorium during the Rally to Rebuild event at North High School in Akron. School officials gave tours of the building and all of its issues with hopes of persuading Akron Public Schools for a new school. (Jeff Lange / Akron Beacon Journal)
General News - 3rd place - Wittenberg University graduate Brysen Dykes hugs his mother, Misti, as the graduates march off the floor of the Pam Evans Smith Arena following the 2023 Commencement Ceremony. The weather forced the ceremony inside for the first time since 2011 but the rain couldn't dampen the celebration. (Bill Lackey / Springfield News-Sun)
General News - HM - Breast cancer survivor of 15 years Shari Williams (center) shouts in celebration during a ceremony before the start of the 2023 Komen Race for the Cure Columbus. (Brooke LaValley / The Columbus Dispatch)
General News - HM - Benjamen Madrid’s sister Jessica Stoner (left) and her sister-in-law Kelly Madrid hug during a ceremony for the completed brick walkway leading into the institution at the Toledo Correctional Institution. The walkway has bricks with names of former wardens, correctional officers and memorials to officers that lost their lives. (Rebecca Benson / The Columbus Dispatch)
Portrait - 1st place - Tamia Woods is reflected in a portrait of her seventeen-year-old son James in Streetsboro. James took his own life in November of last year after he became a victim of online sextortion. (Jeff Lange / Akron Beacon Journal)
Portrait - 2nd place - DeJuan Sharp stands in front of a mural on the Vanderelli Room where Sinzae Reed’s face has been recently added at top right. Sharp has been an intermediary between the Reed family and the public since Sinzae’s murder in 2022. (Brooke LaValley / The Columbus Dispatch)
Portrait - 3rd place - Southview Cougars sophomore Isaac Vens during practice at Sylvania Southview High School. (Isaac Ritchey / The Blade)
Portrait - HM - From left twins Madison and Mya Glover are graduating at the top of their class at Toledo Early College High School. (Jeremy Wadsworth / The Blade)
Portrait - HM - Jonathan Solomon of Kent State is all smiles after he helped lead the 4x100 meter relay team to a first place win with a time of 40.11 seconds during the MAC outdoor track and field championships held at the University of Akron. (Jeff Lange / Akron Beacon Journal)
Sports Feature - 1st place - Findlay’s Preston Perkins lays on the ground after completing the 3200 meter run during the TRAC track and field championships at Findlay High School. (Rebecca Benson / The Blade)
Sports Feature - 2nd place - Perrysburg resident Allie Cullum turns to peck Cameron Cardinale on the cheek with Sue Corbett during a kiss cam at a watch party as the Toledo Walleye face the Idaho Steelheads in the ECHL Western Conference Finals game three at Fifth Third Field in Toledo. (Isaac Ritchey / The Blade)
Sports Feature - 3rd place - A fan catches a foul ball during an International League baseball game at Fifth Third Field in downtown Toledo. (Rebecca Benson / The Blade)
Sports Feature - HM - Roo climbs up on Maddy Huml for a postgame snack after the Highland Hornets beat Euclid, 15-1, in a Division I sectional softball game in Granger Township. (Jeff Lange / Akron Beacon Journal)
Sports Feature - HM - Indian Valley celebrates their win over Carrollton as catcher Landon James throws his chest guard to the ground during the Div II district semifinal game at Conotton Valley High School. (Andrew Dolph / The Times Reporter)
Spot News - 1st place - A man driving a Toyota Tacoma pickup truck pulling Mirro Craft Troller boat awaits removal from Stone Creek, where they came to a final stop after crashing in York Township. The 69-year-old driver was traveling southbound, went across the median, northbound lanes, through a field, and into the creek, according to Ohio State Highway Patrol troopers on scene. (Andrew Dolph / The Times Reporter)
Spot News - 2nd place - The Springfield Fire Division responded to a fully involved vacant house fire in the 700 block of Tibbetts Avenue. The fire division arrived to find flames and smoke billowing out of the two story house that was surrounded by overgrown trees and shrubs. The Tibbetts fire was the second vacant house fire the Springfield Fire Division responded to Monday morning. Some of the fire units had to respond from a similar scene on Grand Avenue. (Bill Lackey / Springfield News-Sun)
Spot News - 3rd place - A boy rides his bike down East Bancroft Street as firefighters work to put out a chemical fire in an abandoned warehouse a block over in North Toledo. (Isaac Ritchey / The Blade)
Sports - 1st place - Toledo’s Sebastian Cossa makes a save during game three of an ECHL playoff hockey game at the Huntington Center in Toledo. The Toledo Walleye defeated the Idaho Steelheads, 5-4. (Rebecca Benson / The Blade)
Sports - 2nd place - Akron St. Vincent - St. Mary’s right fielder Nori Talley drops a ball hit by Coventry’s Savannah Regan during the fourth inning in a Division II district final softball game at Willig Park in Canton. (Jeff Lange / Akron Beacon Journal)
Sports - 3rd place - Rossford’s Nick Toddonio (right) slides in to score as Central Catholic’s Kyle Wasserman fails to tag him out at the plate in their Division II district semifinal game at Memorial Park in Archbold. (Kurt Steiss / The Blade)
Sports - HM - Bowsher Blue Racers discus thrower Pierre Adams places first during a City League track and field meet at Rogers High School in Toledo. (Isaac Ritchey / The Blade)
Sports - HM - World champion competitive eater Joey Chestnut finishes his tenth cotton candy during a timed contest between the second and third inning of an International League baseball game between the Toledo Mud Hens and Rochester Red Wings at Fifth Third Field in Toledo. (Isaac Ritchey / The Blade)
Story - 1st place - From left Frank Elia and his brother Terry Elia of Chicago photograph migratory birds during the opening day of the Biggest Week in American Birding at Magee Marsh in Oak Harbor. (Jeremy Wadsworth / The Blade)
