FFeature - 1st place - Owners of the 10th heat release their dachshunds during the 10th annual Running of the Wieners in Cincinnati. (Kareem Elgazzar / Cincinnati Enquirer)
SFeature - 2nd place - Ohio State University Marching Band member Dan McCullough of Massillon oils the valves of his sousaphone prior to the Buckeyes game against the Oklahoma Sooners in Columbus. (Adam Cairns / The Columbus Dispatch)
Feature - 3rd place - A woman peeks out of the colorful Sophia Quintero Art and Cultural Center in Toledo. (Andy Morrison / The Blade)
General News - 1st place - The Westerville Police Honor Guard raise the flags during the playing of the Pledge of Allegiance during the community's September 11th memorial service at First Responders Park. (Kyle Robertson / The Columbus Dispatch)
General News - 2nd place - Mohamad Kanan, a junior at the University of Toledo, rides Salsa with the guidance from University of Toledo equestrian team member Nadia Sherman during the Horses for Humanity event to help those affected by hurricanes in Florida and Texas. Four horses are on campus for people to ride for a donation, which will go to the American Red Cross. (Jeremy Wadsworth / The Blade)
General News - 3rd place - Central Catholic High School rowing coach Ethan Peters removes his boat from the Maumee River were an algae bloom from Lake Erie has moved into the boat basin at International Park in Toledo. (Jeremy Wadsworth / The Blade)
FIllustration - 1st place - Mee heang, featuring egg noodles with roasted pork, served with bok choy, pork dumpling and topped with roasted peanut, at Bangkok Street Restaurant on Montgomery Road in Sycamore Township. (Kareem Elgazzar / Cincinnati Enquirer)
FIllustration - 2nd place - Tuna Nicoise, pickled shallot, frisee and Espellete aioli at Postmark Restaurant in Cincinnati's Clifton neighborhood. (Kareem Elgazzar / Cincinnati Enquirer)
Illustration - 3rd place - Ribs at Smoked on High Barbecue Co. in Columbus. (Kyle Robertson / The Columbus Dispatch)
Portrait - 1st place - Ohio State dance professor Susan Van Pelt Petry will be performing her one-woman dance show "The Linen Closet & Other Collections". (Kyle Robertson / The Columbus Dispatch)
Portrait - 2nd place - Aaron Marshall of the University Area Commission stands in front of the Pavey block construction site on the corner of N. High Street and W. Northwood Avenue in Columbus. Marshall is an opponent of the project and has concerns about how zoning is done. (Kyle Robertson / The Columbus Dispatch)
Portrait - 3rd place - Marianne Hall, a bus driver for East Muskingum Local Schools, safely got all her students off the bus when it caught fire recently. (Chris Crook / Zanesville Times Recorder)
SSports Feature - 1st place - The Cincinnati Bearcats celebrate with the Victory Bell after defeating the Miami Redhawks at Yager Stadium in Oxford. The Bearcats won 21-17 after an intercepted RedHawks pass was returned for a touchdown with just over one minute remaining in the game. (Sam Greene / Cincinnati Enquirer)
Sports Feature - 2nd place - Oklahoma quarterback Baker Mayfield (6) plants the Sooner flag in the Ohio State logo at midfield after beating Ohio State 31-16 at Ohio Stadium in Columbus. (Kyle Robertson / The Columbus Dispatch)
Sports Feature - 3rd place - Matt Bahner gets a pat on the head from teammate Sam De Wit after playing to a 1-1 draw against the Pittsburgh Riverhouds at Nippert Stadium in Cincinnati. (Erik Schelkun / Elsestar Images)
MT Spot News - 1st place - A parent reunites with her son across from Scioto High School on S. High St. in Columbus after Columbus Police arrested a student who was armed with a gun and discharged it in the hallway. (Eric Albrecht / The Columbus Dispatch)
Spot News - 2nd place - Shane Organ of Columbiana woke up on the wrong side of the circle. He was on top of it, but not injured except for a few cuts and bruises on his hands. Organ had worked a long day of construction and maintenance and fell asleep on his way home shortly after 3 a.m., ending up in the decorative traffic circle. Organ was administered a field sobriety test and found not to be under the influence of any drugs or alcohol. (Patricia Schaeffer / The (Lisbon) Morning Journal)
Spot News - 3rd place - Tonya Stevens carries her dog and cat after escaping her burning house with her elderly mother and son in the 500 block of East Pleasant Street. Stevenson said her dog saved her life by waking her up. (Bill Lackey / Springfield News-Sun)
Sports - 1st place - UNLV running back Lexington Thomas (3) scores a touchdown while defended by Ohio State linebacker Baron Browning (5) during the second quarter at Ohio Stadium in Columbus. (Barbara J. Perenic / The Columbus Dispatch)
Sports - 2nd place - FC Cincinnati's Harrison Delbridge wins a header against a Pittsburgh River Hound defender. The teams battled to a 1-1 draw at Nippert Stadium in Cincinnati. (Erik Schelkun / Elsestar Images)
Sports - 3rd place - The lead group of runners race through a field during the Queen City Invite at Voice of America Park in West Chester. The Dayton Flyers won the event placing six runners in the top ten. (Erik Schelkun / Elsestar Images)
MTStory - 1st place - Water rushes around Daniel Symonds as he uses a snorkel and mask to search for freshwater mussels burrowed in the creek sediment during a freshwater mussel survey in Big Darby Creek in Darbydale. (Joshua A. Bickel / The Columbus Dispatch)
Story - 2nd place - Imam Farooq Aboelzhab leads prayer as area mosques celebrate Eid Al-Adha at the SeaGate Convention Centre. Eid al-Adha, also known as the Feast of the Sacrifice, recalls Abraham’s willingness to sacrifice his son as an act of obedience to God, who in turn sent an angel to place a ram in Ismail’s stead. It also commemorates the hajj, an annual pilgrimage to Mecca. (Andy Morrison / The Blade)
MTStory - 3rd place - Students explore the woods during outdoor play at Red Oak Community School in Columbus. The two-year-old private school incorporates the outdoors and environmental awareness into much of its curriculum. (Joshua A. Bickel / The Columbus Dispatch)
