First Place, Spot News Large Market - Michael E. Keating / Cincinnati EnquirerA young rioter hurls a can at approaching Cincinnati Police in riot gear as they begin to take charge of the streets following an afternoon of wilding in the streets. Youths marched through the streets in protest of a police shooting of an unarmed man resulting in three days of riots.
Second Place, Spot News Large Market - Michael E. Keating / Cincinnati EnquirerTony Connelly, a driver for Builder's First Source, prepares to climb from the cab of his overturned flatbed truck just north of the Kellogg Ave. exit of southbound I-275, Feb. 27, 2001. He was slightly injured with scrapes to his head. He reported that he had to slam on his brakes when he encountered a slow moving vehicle and in an effort to avoid a school bus in the adjacent lane.
Third Place, Spot News Large Market - Mike Levy / The Plain DealerAfter learning that her 7-year-old son, Vincent, had been struck and killed by an RTA Rapid train, Claudia Pannetti screams as attendants from the coroner's office remove the boy's body.
Award of Excellence, Spot News Large Market - Chuck Crow / The Plain DealerThe body of 1-year-old Tavon Tuggle is carried from the Cleveland home where he, his 3-year-old sister, Kiana and their mother, Felicia, died yesterday when a fire started in the basement. The clothes where thrown out of the house as the firefighters looked for the infant in the burning home. Four hours later they found the body. The cause of the fire is still being investigated.
Award of Excellence, Spot News Large Market - Gary Landers / Cincinnati EnquirerA man (left) is arrested by Cincinnati Police Officers at the corner of 12th and Vine Streets in Cincinnati's Over-the-Rhine area for refusing to disperse. A police officer (right) fires non-lethal beanbag projectiles into a crowd during civil unrest brought about by Cincinnati Police Officer Steve Roach shooting and killing an unarmed black man, Timothy Thomas.
Award of Excellence, Spot News Large Market - Michael E. Keating / Cincinnati EnquirerMiamitown firefighters battle a truck blaze along I-275 northbound near Kilby Road. No one was injured in the blaze.
