Feature - 1st place - Perry James, co-owner of Silk’s Barbershop, does push ups between hair cuts as his business partner Charles Brown (left) watches on Broadway Street in Toledo. James likes to work out between clients. (Jeremy Wadsworth / The Blade)
Feature - 2nd place - A worker is silhouetted against the sky as he works on the roof the First Lutheran Church on West High Street in Springfield. (Bill Lackey / Springfield News-Sun)
Feature - 3rd place - Isla Antonello, 5, flies a kite along with her mother Brittany Antonello at Middlegrounds Metropark in Toledo. (Jeremy Wadsworth / The Blade)
General News - 1st place - Dan Sprague, custodian, sprays dividers on tables with disinfectant between lunches at Perrysburg High School.(Kurt Steiss / The Blade)
General News - 2nd place - Darius Mitchell, who is running for president as a write-in candidate, waves the American Flag prior to the first presidential debate between President Donald Trump and former Vice President Joe Biden in Cleveland. (Jeremy Wadsworth / The Blade)
General News - 3rd place - A member of the National Guard kicks a ball around between administering coronavirus tests at Scott Park in Toledo where the National Guard and the Lucas County Health Department held a pop up testing site.(Jeremy Wadsworth / The Blade)
Illustration - 1st place - Popular State Fair food Bee My Honey Rosemary Bread in Toledo. (Jeremy Wadsworth / The Blade)
Illustration - 2nd place - Cafe Au Lait Ice Cream at Chapman's Eat Market in Columbus.(Kyle Robertson / The Columbus Dispatch)
Illustration - 3rd place - Grain and Veggie Salad at Chapman's Eat Market in Columbus.(Kyle Robertson / The Columbus Dispatch)
Portrait - 1st place - Ralph Stuckman, 84, is seen through a "dripping" paint piece at his home studio. Stuckman, who founded The Lake Area Arts Group, is stepping down as the groups' director.(Daniel Melograna / The Daily Standard)
Portrait - 2nd place - Fred Messaros is a master of horror and his haunted house, Face Your Fears - Hotel of Terror, has been listed as one of the best in Ohio. Messaros poses with a giant mutant rat that will burst out of the wall in a new section of the haunted house. (Bill Lackey / Springfield News-Sun)
Portrait - 3rd place - Shannon Clokey an art teacher at Tuslaw Elementary School is shown with one the sensory paths she painted with the help of others on the school's playground.(Scott Heckel / The Repository)
Sports Feature - 1st place - Cincinnati Reds fans gather to watch the last home game of the season from outside the main gate in the sixth inning of a game against the Milwaukee Brewers at Great American Ball Park in Cincinnati.(Kareem Elgazzar / The Cincinnati Enquirer)
Sports Feature - 2nd place - Bobby Ganser (right) of Louisville gives a virtual hug to teammate Colby Adams after the big school division of the East Canton Cross Country Invitational. Ganser finsihed first while Adams finished second. (Scott Heckel / The Repository)
Sports Feature - 3rd place - Dublin Coffman Trey Hedderly (12) listens to music in their outdoor locker room before their game against Hilliard Davidson at Dublin Coffman High School.(Kyle Robertson / The Columbus Dispatch)
Spot News - 1st place - Sherri Sweeney, a volunteer searcher, holds back people as they rush the police car carrying Dajnae Cox, the mother of 3-year-old Braylen Noble, after his body was found in the apartment pool at Hunter's Ridge Apartments in Toledo.(Rebecca Benson / The Blade)
Spot News - 2nd place - Kelsey Trumbull is consoled by a friend after her two dogs, Buddy and Bailey, died in a fire at Bel Air Mobile Court on Nebraska Avenue in Toledo. Her mobile home was destroyed. (Jeremy Wadsworth / The Blade)
Spot News - 3rd place - People mourn and react as Cincinnati police investigate a triple homicide in the 3600 block of Irving Street in Cincinnati's Avondale neighborhood.(Kareem Elgazzar / The Cincinnati Enquirer)
Sports - 1st place - Cincinnati Bearcats wide receiver Michael Young (8) stretches out for a pass but is unable to complete the catch in the first quarter against the Army Black Knights at Nippert Stadium in Cincinnati.(Kareem Elgazzar / The Cincinnati Enquirer)
Sports - 2nd place - Ottawa-Glandorf’s Abby Warnecke (back) makes the save on goal as Kelsey Erford (right) battles Celina’s Taylor Klingshirn and Zoey Burns (15) off of a corner kick.(Daniel Melograna / The Daily Standard)
Sports - 3rd place - Brecksville cornerback Trey Green (right) nearly intercepts a pass intended for Stow receiver William Luketich during the first half of a game at Stow High School.(Jeff Lange / Akron Beacon Journal)
Sports - HM - Anthony Wayne’s Charles Renninger (1) goes airborne while running the ball during a game against Perrysburg at Anthony Wayne High School in Whitehouse.(Kurt Steiss / The Blade)
Story - 1st place - Sherri Sweeney, a volunteer searcher, holds back people as they rush the police car carrying Dajnae Cox, the mother of 3-year-old Braylen Noble, after his body was found in the apartment pool at Hunter's Ridge Apartments in Toledo.(Rebecca Benson / The Blade)
Story - 2nd place - Jim Rhegness serves food from the Off The Rails Trolley during a National Voter Registration Day event at Elmdale and Mercer Court Apartments in Toledo. (Jeremy Wadsworth / The Blade)
Story - 3rd place - A protester holds up a cardboard cutout caricature of President Donald Trump along Wilkins Road ahead of his rally at Eugene F. Kranz Toledo Express Airport in Swanton.(Kurt Steiss / The Blade)
