Feature - 1st place - Maumee resident Elizabeth McCartney has the 5 p.m. showing of the 1971 film "Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory" all to herself at the Maumee Indoor Theatre. Kurt Steiss / The Blade
Feature - 2nd place - Decker Dowdy, 3, touches Santa through a "magic shield" at Cabela's in Columbus. Cabela's is only allowing 25 appointments each night to see Santa. Kyle Robertson / The Columbus Dispatch
Feature - 3rd place - Annalise Ramirez, 5, dances as she waits for her mom Amanda to finish voting at Washington Local Schools Administration Building in Toledo. Rebecca Benson / The Blade
General News - 1st place - Voters use physically distanced booths at the Mount Washington Recreation Center polling location in Cincinnati. Kareem Elgazzar / The Cincinnati Enquirer
General News - 2nd place - Emery Lowe, 5, aka The Flash, keeps an ever watchful eye on the election poll at the Champaign County Government Center as his grandmother fills out her ballot. Bill Lackey / Springfield News-Sun
General News - 3rd place - Corey Hupp balances a political sign on one finger while standing outside a polling station at Ottawa Hills High School in Ottawa Hills. The sign is in support of Issue 15 and issue 16, a bond issue and a school levy respectively. Jeremy Wadsworth / The Blade
Portrait - 1st place - Carrie Ahlers has been working at Kingy's Pizza in Canal Winchester for 26 years. Kyle Robertson / The Columbus Dispatch
Portrait - 2nd place - Ryan Custer, 23, at home in Green Township suffered a critical spinal cord injury three years ago while playing basketball at Wright State University. Custer’s story will be featured in an upcoming documentary, Ending Disease, that highlights Custer’s positive outlook. Kareem Elgazzar / The Cincinnati Enquirer
Portrait - 3rd place - Former Ohio State All-American Mike Doss poses for a photo inside the Robert Weiler building in downtown Columbus. Doss has started a career in commercial real estate under the Robert Weiler Company. Kyle Robertson / The Columbus Dispatch
Sports Feature - 1st place - Steam comes off Start lineman Marcus Ensley while he sits on the bench during the City League Championship football game against Woodward in Toledo. Start defeated Woodward, 20-14, in overtime. Jeremy Wadsworth / The Blade
Sports Feature - 2nd place - A police officer stands in front of fan cardboard cutouts during a Mid-American Conference (MAC) college football game between Western Michigan and Toledo at Western Michigan University's Waldo Stadium in Kalamazoo, Michigan. Kurt Steiss / The Blade
Sports Feature - 3rd place - New Bremen's Branxton Krauss (8) celebrates after sacking John F. Kennedy Catholic's Cameron Hollobaugh (9) in the second half in the Division VII State Finals at Paul Brown Tiger Stadium in Massillon. Daniel Melograna / The Daily Standard
Sports Feature - HM - Hoban lineman Luke Petit celebrates after the Knights beat Massillon, 35-6, in the Division II state championship game in Massillon. Jeff Lange / Akron Beacon Journal
Spot News - 1st place - Members of the Springfield Fire Division got a rocking chair, off a nearby porch, for a woman to sit in as she waits for a stretcher following a two car accident. The woman and her husband had just been rescued from their overturned SUV after the crash at the intersection of Woodside Avenue and Bellevue Avenue. They were transported to the hospital with non-life threatening injuries. Bill Lackey / Springfield News-Sun
Sports - 1st place - DeSales' Jordan Johnson tries to fend off Chardon's Trey Liebhardt during the Division III State Championship game at Paul Brown Tiger Stadium in Massillon. Shane Flanigan / ThisWeek Community News
Sports - 2nd place - University of Toledo WR Ronnie Blackmon (28) stiff arms Eastern Michigan University DB Jeff Hubbard (12) to score a touchdown at Rynearson Stadium in Ypsilanti, Michigan. Jeremy Wadsworth / The Blade
Sports - 3rd place - Ottawa Hills’ Walker Knight (7) battles Youngstown Cardinal Mooney’s Dante DeGenova (2) on a corner kick during the final seconds of a Division III state semifinal soccer match in Mansfield. Youngstown defeated Ottawa Hills, 1-0. Jeremy Wadsworth / The Blade
Story - 1st place - Trump supporters cheer "stop the steal" during a rally at the Ohio Statehouse in Columbus. Democrat Joe Biden was projected to become the president-elect of the United States on Saturday morning. Kyle Robertson / The Columbus Dispatch
Story - 2nd place - Ohio State basketball team moved their games to the smaller Covelli Center from Value City Arena because of the COVID-19 and along with other cost measuring issues in Columbus. The Buckeyes take on UMass Lowell River Hawks in an empty Covelli Center in Columbus. Kyle Robertson / The Columbus Dispatch
