Feature - 1st placeLariyah Moore, 9, wipes away a smudge after having her new glasses fitted by the opticians from Northeast Ohio Eye Surgeons at the I Promise School, in Akron. (Jeff Lange / Akron Beacon Journal)
Feature - 2nd placeA duo row in the Maumee River in Toledo. (Kurt Steiss / The Blade)
Feature - 3rd placeThe Tecumseh High School Marching Band casts their shadows on Main Street as they perform in the New Carlisle Heritage of Flight Parade. (Bill Lackey / Springfield News-Sun)
Feature - HMLeo Uckele, 5, looks at the spiderweb and spiders painted on his face during the 34th Annual Sylvania Fall Festival in downtown Sylvania. (Rebecca Benson / The Blade)
Feature - HMVarga Berrien laughs as she does aerobics for seniors with a group on stage at the Community Health Foundation's annual Health Expo at the Hollenbeck Bayley Conference Center. (Bill Lackey / Springfield News-Sun)
General News - 1st placeJordan Anderson writes on a side of a building after a vigil one year after Donna was shot and killed by former Columbus police vice officer Andrew K. Mitchell, who has been charged with murder, on Bellows Ave in Franklinton. (Kyle Robertson / The Columbus Dispatch)
General News - 2nd placeJoe Wieligman, on the joint Hylant and Real Men READ-Y team, reacts to a misspelled word during The Blade Corporate & Community Spelling Bee at The Pinnacle in Maumee. The Lucas County Prosecutor's Office won this year's bee. (Kurt Steiss / The Blade)
General News - 3rd placeKeith Reid, 12, is wanded by Lucas County Sheriff's Deputy Karen Villareal as he enters the stadium for the football game between Scott High School and Woodward High School at Scott High School in Toledo. New security measures are in place for City League football games in light of recent shootings near the games. Start times have been moved up to 5:30. ID's are being checked and only students from participating schools are being permitted to enter. (Jeremy Wadsworth / The Blade)
Portrait - 1st placeTina Rossi in her Galloway home with a shrine to her son Vince Rossi who lost his life to opioids, the green sunglasses are reminder of the positive times she had with her son who wore them on a family canoe outing.With lawsuits beginning to be settled Tina and other families who have lost loved ones to opioids are wondering where the fit into the settlement situation. (Eric Albrecht / The Columbus Dispatch)
Portrait - 2nd placeImam Ahmad Deeb at Islamic Center of Greater Toledo in Perrysburg. (Jeremy Wadsworth / The Blade)
Portrait - 3rd placeGameday + Meet a Buckeye with Jack Holland of the men's soccer team. Jack poses for a photo after practice. (Kyle Robertson / The Columbus Dispatch)
Portrait - HMTodd Kensler built and designed all of his Halloween display at house in Hilliard. (Kyle Robertson / The Columbus Dispatch)
Sports Feature - 1st placeWalsh's Sophia Gorsky (left) celebrates after heading a corner kick into the goal to take the lead 1-0 against Twinsburg during the second half of a Division I district championship game at Brecksville-Broadview Heights High School. (Jeff Lange / Akron Beacon Journal)
Sports Feature - 2nd placeWalnut Ridge's Qian Magwood (13) leads his team to the field before their game against Marion-Franklin. (Kyle Robertson / The Columbus Dispatch)
Sports Feature - 3rd placeA member of the Olentangy High School Marching Band waits to perform before the game between the Olentangy Liberty Patriots and the Olentangy Braves in Lewis Center. (Maddie Schroeder / The Columbus Dispatch)
Sports Feature - HMMarion-Franklin's Jamier Cato stretches with his team as he watches Walnut Ridge team warmup before their game at Marion-Franklin High School. (Kyle Robertson / The Columbus Dispatch)
Sports Feature - HMWesterville South and Olentangy Orange compete in a varsity boys soccer match at Olentangy Orange High School in Lewis Center. (Shane Flanigan / ThisWeek Community News)
Spot News - 1st placeMercer County Sheriff Deputies were trying to determine how several dead chickens were scattered along County Road 219A near Montezuma. The Sheriff office also had reports of dead chickens scattered along Fairground Road in Celina and State Route 118 South in Coldwater. (Daniel Melograna / The Daily Standard)
Spot News - 2nd placeMoorefield Township firefighters battle a fire in a vacant house on Mechanicsburg Road. The second floor was fully involved when the fire department arrived and firefighters were forced to attack the fire from the outside for safety reasons. Once the fire had taken over the entire second floor, the fire department decided to let the vacant structure burn and just contain it. (Bill Lackey / Springfield News-Sun)
Spot News - 3rd placeA horse grazes in front of the smoldering remnants of a barn at Fantasy Acres on Roachton Road in Middleton Township. Four horses and a donkey were killed in the blaze. (Kurt Steiss / The Blade)
Sports - 1st placeCincinnati Bearcats running back Gerrid Doaks (23) dives into the end zone for a touchdown in the first quarter against the Tulsa Golden Hurricane at Nippert Stadium in Cincinnati. (Sam Greene / The Cincinnati Enquirer)
Sports - 2nd placeOhio State guard Luther Muhammad (left) grabs a rebound off the face of Cedarville guard Demond Parker during the first half of their game at Value City Arena in Columbus. (Kyle Robertson / The Columbus Dispatch)
Sports - 3rd placeTulsa wide receiver Josh Johnson (13) lands on his head without his helmet after tangling with Cincinnati safety Ja'von Hicks over a deep pass in the fourth quarter of their game at Nippert Stadium in Cincinnati. (Sam Greene / The Cincinnati Enquirer)
Story - 1st placeNowhere in Columbus is there an area more plagued with prostitution and drug abuse than a three-mile span of Sullivant Avenue that runs from the edge of Downtown from Dodge Park to Hague Avenue. There are more than 1,000 abandoned houses along the streets touching Sullivant, some of which are occupied by “dope sick” people under the control of human traffickers. (Kyle Robertson / The Columbus Dispatch)
Story - 2nd placeA young boy chews on a small bag containing food as he sits with his mother during a prayer while celebrating Diwali at BAPS Shri Swaminarayan Mandir in Columbus. (Maddie Schroeder / The Columbus Dispatch)
Story - 3rd placeMarching 110 members dance down Court Street during Ohio University's homecoming parade in Athens. The band was permitted to participate despite recent hazing allegations. (Maddie Schroeder / The Columbus Dispatch)
