Feature - 1st place - David "Cowboy" Graham, of Newark, raises his hat for passing cars across the street from Tuscarawas Valley Middle-High School in Zoarville. David has been traveling the country in support of victims of tragedies such as mass casualty incidents, mass shootings, and natural disasters. He is spending time at TVHS after the recent bus tragedy that killed 6 people, three of whom were students, on Nov. 14, in Licking County. (Andrew Dolph / The Times Reporter)
Feature - 2nd place - Workers assemble the giant Christmas tree at Promenade Park in downtown Toledo. (Rebecca Benson / The Blade)
Feature - 3rd place - Hector Mendoza plays sounds of the season on his classical guitar at the Main Library in Toledo. (Jeremy Wadsworth / The Blade)
Feature - HM - Frank Gibson, of Davey Tree, conducts minor pruning to the freshly planted 'Tree of Eternal Life' in Zoar’s Garden of Happiness. The previous tree came down in the Spring of 2023 as a result of a strong windstorm. That tree was ninety years old. The tree is meant to symbolize Jesus Christ, and is surrounded by 12 apostle trees within the garden – a hallmark of the small village of less than 300 people, originally home to radical separatists whom fled Germany in the early 1800’s. (Andrew Dolph / The Times Reporter)
Feature - HM - Girls watch from the door during a rehearsal of The Nutcracker at Toledo Metropolitan in Sylvania. (Rebecca Benson / The Blade)
General News - 1st place - Essie Baird hugs a supporter at the Madison County Common Pleas Court in London, Ohio. Baird stated that former Upper Arlington teacher Joel Cutler had a sexual relationship with her beginning when she was 12 in 2000 continuing through 2003, she was in court to read a statement about her experience with him as he attempted to accept a plea deal from the prosecution. (Brooke LaValley / The Columbus Dispatch)
General News - 2nd place - Sylvania resident Fouad Elhady holds up the flag of Palestine during a protest calling for a ceasefire in the Israel-Hamas war outside One Government Center in Toledo. (Kurt Steiss / The Blade)
General News - 3rd place - Troy McIntosh, CCV's Ohio Christian Education Network Executive Director holds his head in his hand after reading the results on the phone of Aaron Baer, President of Center for Christian Virtue at the gathering hosted by Protect Women Ohio at the Center for Christian Virtue in Downtown Columbus. The group had heavily advocated against issue one, a law that would enshrine abortion rights in the Ohio constitution. (Brooke LaValley / The Columbus Dispatch)
General News - HM - Toledo resident Teven, 8, (left) squares up against sister Ky’onna, 10, as the two play while waiting to receive a Thanksgiving meal box during a giveaway at Helping Hands of St. Louis in Toledo. (Isaac Ritchey / The Blade)
General News - HM - Erika Johnson, head coach of the North High girls soccer team, decorates a world soccer themed Christmas tree ahead of Akron Children’s Hospital’s 42nd annual Holiday Tree Festival at the John S. Knight Center in Akron. (Jeff Lange / Akron Beacon Journal)
Portrait - 1st place - John Wirchanski enters the main barn on his property. The farm is now surrounded by roundabouts and a nearby Costco and Valvoline, he can hear the traffic from his front door. The Farm has been in his family for four generations, he is considering selling it and moving to the city. (Brooke LaValley / The Columbus Dispatch)
Portrait - 2nd place - Rod Harris, Vice President of Strategy and Business Development for the Trade and Processing Group, at The Andersons in Maumee. (Jeremy Wadsworth / The Blade)
Portrait - 3rd place - Oak Harbor junior defensive lineman Jacob Ridener, who was 1st-team All-Ohio last year, at a practice on in Oak Harbor. (Isaac Ritchey / The Blade)
Portrait - HM - Findlay quarterback Ryan Montgomery at Donnell Stadium in Findlay. (Jeremy Wadsworth / The Blade)
Portrait - HM - Jon “Big Nut” Peters cheers on his Buckeyes during a game between the University of Michigan and Ohio State University at UM’s Michigan Stadium in Ann Arbor. (Kurt Steiss / The Blade)
Sports Feature - 1st place - St. Ursula players celebrate defeating Avon to win the Division I regional volleyball final at Norwalk High School. St. Ursula defeated Avon 3 sets to 1. (Jeremy Wadsworth / The Blade)
Sports Feature - 2nd place - Walsh Jesuit’s Hannah Pachan (left) celebrates over Strongsville’s Andjelina Janjetovic after the Warriors beat the Mustangs, 2-1, in a Division I state semifinal soccer game at Nordonia High School in Macedonia. (Jeff Lange / Akron Beacon Journal)
Sports Feature - 3rd place - Revere’s AJ Catlett (left) celebrates with members of the Minutemen student section after beating Mentor Lake Catholic, 2-0, in a Division II state semifinal soccer match, in Twinsburg. (Jeff Lange / Akron Beacon Journal)
Sports Feature - HM - Lydia Gratz, fifth grader at Bluffton Elementary School cheers on the Toledo Walleye in their game against the Wheeling Nailers at the Huntington Center in Toledo. (Jeremy Wadsworth / The Blade)
Sports Feature - HM - Bengals quarterback, Joe Burrow points his fingers to indicate a first down during their game against the Buffalo Bills at Paycor Stadium in Cincinnati. (Erik Schelkun / Elsestar Images)
Spot News - 1st place - Sgt. Ryan Rainsberger from the Ohio State Highway Patrol, at top right, takes photographs of the scene of a fatal two-vehicle motor vehicle crash along State Route 39 at Shetler Road NW, in Sugarcreek. Sugarcreek Fire and Rescue Captain Cody Shetler is pictured walking at bottom left. William Reinerth Jr, 62, of Brunswick, was killed while attempting to make a left hand turn onto Shetler Road NW from 39 when he was rear-ended by a roll-off trash truck driven by Scott A. Conley, 28, of New Philadelphia., according to OSHP. (Andrew Dolph / The Times Reporter)
Spot News - 2nd place - First responders work to clear the scene of a car that was struck by an Amtrak train in Holland. (Rebecca Benson / The Blade)
Sports - 1st place - Garaway's Payton Keller intercepts a pass in the first quarter during their Division VI, Region 23 playoff semifinal football game against Northmor at Bulldog Stadium in Heath. (Andrew Dolph / The Times Reporter)
Sports - 2nd place - Whiteford Bobcats quarterback Ruddy Ryin (2) is thrown out of bounds by his collar against the Gabriel Richard Pioneers in the MHSAA Division VIII state football semifinal game at Docking Stadium in Adrian, Michigan. (Isaac Ritchey / The Blade)
Sports - 3rd place - Toledo Rockets tight end Anthony Torres (center) carries Bowling Green safety Darius Lorfils for a few extra yards during the Battle of I-75 at Doyt Perry Stadium in Bowling Green. (Isaac Ritchey / The Blade)
Sports - HM - Medina wide receiver Jack Wojciak (left) catches a touchdown pass over Wadsworth defensive back Travis Graham during the second half of a Division I regional quarterfinal game in Wadsworth. (Jeff Lange / Akron Beacon Journal)
Sports - HM - Central Catholic running back Tyler Morgan goes airborne for extra yardage against Tiffin Columbian defensive back A.J. Hickman during a Division III regional final playoff game at Robert J. Bishop Jr. Stadium in Clyde. (Jeremy Wadsworth / The Blade)
Story - 1st place - Parents and students embrace outside the vestibule at Tuscarawas Valley Middle-High School in Zoarville after learning that three marching band members as well as a teacher, and two chaperones died in a fiery bus crash on Interstate 70, in Licking County – about an hour from the school. The crash was a multi-vehicle, chain reaction crash in which the students were on a charter bus, and the adults were traveling separately in a personal vehicle. (Andrew Dolph / The Times Reporter)
Story - 2nd place - Chris Aldrich of Toledo Aerial Media loads 150 rubber turkeys on to a drone for the Turkey Drop Fundraiser at the Wood County Museum in Bowling Green. The museum partnered with Toledo Aerial Media for a fun fundraising event in which participants could purchase a foam turkey for $50 each. A drone dropped 150 numbered foam turkeys in the lot. The three foam turkeys closest to the target won prizes. (Jeremy Wadsworth / The Blade)
