First Place, Team Picture Story - / The Cincinnati Enquirer
First Place, Team Picture Story - / Cincinnati EnquirerAlmost two hundred protestors crowd around city council members as an angry Ronnie Stallworth yells at Cincinnati Police Chief Tom Streicher during a hearing of the law committee at City Hall in Cincinnati following the killing of Timothy Thomas, an unarmed African American, by police officer Steven Roach two days earlier. The shooting lead to one week of protests, riots, and a city imposed curfew leading up to the funeral of this 19-year-old man.
First Place, Team Picture Story - / Cincinnati EnquirerAn angry crowd jams City of Cincinnati Council Chambers, April 9, 2001 in response to the Cincinnati Police shooting of yet another unarmed black man, Timothy Thomas in Over-the-Rhine.
First Place, Team Picture Story - / Cincinnati EnquirerProtestors gather at the scene of the fatal police shooting of Timothy Thomas where a memorial has been place in the alleyway by Republic Street in Over-the-Rhine. Thomas was shot and killed by a Cincinnati Police officer April 7, 2001. The shooting lead to one week of protests, riots, and a city imposed curfew leading up to the funeral of this 19-year-old man.
First Place, Team Picture Story - / Cincinnati EnquirerA single protestor tosses a can of fruit toward a police line as police gather to begin rounding up protestors in the streets. Marchers too to the streets after Cincinnati Police killed an unarmed man they were pursuing.
First Place, Team Picture Story - / Cincinnati EnquirerOne of two store fronts burn on Elder in Findlay Market. Protestors rioted throughout the day after the shooting death of Timothy Thomas in Over-the-Rhine.
First Place, Team Picture Story - / Cincinnati EnquirerPeering out from behind the protective bars of their own windows Marcus Johnson and his 2 year-old daughter Brianna look at the damage to the 1600 block of Race Street in the wake of rioting in Over-the-Rhine.
First Place, Team Picture Story - / Cincinnati EnquirerA man (left) is arrested by Cincinnati Police Officers at the corner of 12th and Vine Streets for refusing to disperse. A police officer (right) fires non-lethal beanbag projectiles into the crowd.
First Place, Team Picture Story - / Cincinnati EnquirerA large number of youths scramble over a fence in the Kroger parking lot at Central Parkway and Vine Street April 11, 2001 while fleeing Cincinnati Police officers who began firing non-lethal projectiles to disperse the unruly crowd.
First Place, Team Picture Story - / Cincinnati EnquirerAn unidentified woman watches from her doorway as police arrest a group of young men on Elder and Elm Street at 8:15 pm after a city imposed curfew started April 12, 2000. The city was placed on a state of emergency following two days of rioting after Timothy Thomas was shot by a police officer earlier in the week.
First Place, Team Picture Story - / Cincinnati EnquirerLoria Artis, center, screams in fear after police fired beanbags into the crowd she was standing in at Liberty and Elm Streets April 14, 2001. She is comforted by Mary Price as Cincinnati City Council member Jim Tarbell tries to calm her down.
First Place, Team Picture Story - / Cincinnati EnquirerProtestors gather in front of New Prospect Baptist Church on Elm Street, April 14, 2001. Timothy Thomas was fatally shot last weekend by a Cincinnati Police officer.
First Place, Team Picture Story - / Cincinnati EnquirerCaught in the middle of difficult times Ron-Autica Sutton looks upward toward a white man holding the hand of her mother during a prayer service as ministers, activists and volunteers took to the streets to preach and plead for peace as Cincinnati endured riots in the streets.
Second Place, Team Picture Story - / Akron Beacon Journal
Second Place, Team Picture Story - Phil Masturzo / Akron Beacon JournalTwo days of wild drinking and the setting of fires by Kent State students and others as part of a end of the year celebration, culminated in what law enforcement officials treated as riots. Kent State University students party hard with beer bong along Summit Street. The scene turned to a riot by nightfall.
Second Place, Team Picture Story - Phil Masturzo / Akron Beacon Journal A man calls for encouragement from onlookers as he gets ready to toss a woman back into a pond at the off campus apartment complex.
Second Place, Team Picture Story - Phil Masturzo / Akron Beacon JournalMuch to the amusement of fellow partygoers, a naked man wades into the water at the University Town homes in Kent. Drunken foolishness by daytime turned to rioting and burning cars by night.
Second Place, Team Picture Story - Phil Masturzo / Akron Beacon Journal End of the semester celebrants wander from party to party as Kent State University students get carried away with drinking during May Day festivities along Summit Street.
Second Place, Team Picture Story - Mike Cardew / Akron beacon JournalKent Police, looking for underage drinking, check the ID of a partygoer along University avenue in Kent.
Second Place, Team Picture Story - Phil Masturzo / Akron Beacon journalA nude revler leaps from atop of an overturned car as hundreds of students look on.
Second Place, Team Picture Story - Lew Stamp / Akron Beacon JournalPortage County Sheriffs deputies and Kent police using rubber projectiles and tear gas, clear the parking lot of partiers at University Town homes off Summit Street near the Kent State University campus in Kent . The rioters set several fires including an overturned automobile.
Second Place, Team Picture Story - Mike Cardew / Akron Beacon JournalPolice arrest a partier early Saturday morning, May 5, 2001 along University Ave. in Kent. Mayday festivities got out of hand for the end of the school parties.
Second Place, Team Picture Story - Phil Masturzo / Akron Beacon JournalKent State University students fuel burning car fire with sofa chair in University Townhomes off Summit Street in Kent.
Second Place, Team Picture Story - Lew Stamp / Akron Beacon JournalPartygoers, many of whom are believed to Kent State Students, rioted at the town homes housing project. Illuminated by piles of burning furniture and a burning car, partiers in complex look on. Portage County Sheriffs deputies and Kent police later responded using rubber projectiles and tear gas. Saturday May 5, 2001.
Third Place, Team Picture Story - / The Plain Dealer
Third Place, Team Picture Story - Dale Omori / The Plain DealerThe Sept. 11 attacks touched every community in America. This team picture story documents the effect on the Cleveland area from Sept. 11 to Oct. 11, 2001. Laura Traylor (front/center), of Atlanta, Ga., watches television of the attack on the World Trade Center in New York City, with business associates from Medical Mutual from a table at the Clevelander Bar and Grill, Sept. 11, 2001. The Medical Mutual Building was evacuated like most downtown buildings. Traylor was on a business trip to Cleveland. She was scheduled to fly home at 1pm Tuesday. She works for Matria Health Care of Atlanta Georgia.
Third Place, Team Picture Story - John Kuntz / The Plain DealerAirline travelers are told to leave the Cleveland Hopkins Airport with luggage in hand after the airport closed and all flights were ordered by the FAA to land at the nearest airport, Sept.11, 2001 after terrorist attacks in New York and at the Pentagon.
Third Place, Team Picture Story - Marvin Fong / The Plain DealerJulie Podomnick uses her cell phone outside the Ritz-Carlton Hotel downtown just moments after Tower City Center was evacuated. Cell phones proved vital as a device of crisis for people calling loved ones and getting information about the attacks in New York, Pennsylvania and Washington, D.C.
Third Place, Team Picture Story - Chris Stephens / The Plain DealerJeff Syroney weeps as he listens to a sermon during the ecumenical prayer vigil at St. Patrick's Catholic Sept. 11. The vigil was held in response to the attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon. Mr Syroney lives in Cleveland.
Third Place, Team Picture Story - Bill Kennedy / The Plain DealerIn response to the Sept. 11 attacks, the Hudson marching band donned American flags at its Friday night football game Sept. 14, 2001.
Third Place, Team Picture Story - Mike Levy / The Plain DealerFive-year-old Isaac Scuvott of Bedford watches the procession of firefighters and police officers as they march down E. 9th Street towards Cleveland's St. John's Cathedral on Sept. 17.
Third Place, Team Picture Story - David I. Andersen / The Plain DealerFayez Abdah examines the damage to the front entrance of the Grand Mosque after a car was deliberately driven though it into the foyer. No one was hurt but the mosque sustained extensive damage.
Third Place, Team Picture Story - David I. Andersen / The Plain DealerReflecting the emotions of a flag-waving crowd, the Browns' starting defensive backfield - Daylon McCutcheon (33), Corey Fuller (24), Percy Ellsworth and Earl Little - emerges as a unit during introductions for the Sept. 23 game against the Detroit Lions. It was the first NFL game since the Sept. 11 attacks.
Third Place, Team Picture Story - John Kuntz / The Plain DealerSgt. Michael Cuciak of West Park with the Army's National Guard 135th Military Police Company from Brook Park shares a quiet moment with his son Daniel, 2, and wife Jackie during departing ceremonies held at the I-X Center in Cleveland Oct. 10, 2001. The company is heading to Fort Bragg, N.C., for training.
Third Place, Team Picture Story - John Kuntz / The Plain DealerStephanie Fought, a member of the 135th Military Police Company from Brook Park, weeps as she says goodbye to her father-in-law Gerald Fought on Oct. 11, 2001. Fought's company left for Fort Bragg, N.C.
Third Place, Team Picture Story - John Kuntz / The Plain DealerA National Guard Hummer, part of a convoy carrying members of the 135th Military Police Company from Brook Park, departs amidst families waving flag as they head to Fort Bragg, N.C. for training.
Award of Excellence, Team Picture Story - / The Plain Dealer
Award of Excellence, Team Picture Story - Lonnie Timmons III / The Plain DealerIn 2001 three-term Cleveland Mayor Mike White retired opening up the primary for 10 hopefuls. Two democrats emerged from the primary, political newcomer Raymond Pierce and longtime Cuyahoga County Commissioner Jane Campbell. Over the next months both candidates committed their lives to winning the hearts and minds of Clevelanders. Pierce and Campbell near the end of their live debate on Channel 5.
Award of Excellence, Team Picture Story - Dale Omori / The Plain DealerDelina Macon, a volunteer in the mayoral campaign of Jane Campbell gives a thumbs-down to candidate Raymond Pierce during his closing statement. Pierce supporter and campaign worker, Gloria Sallee-Rice applauds at Candidate's Night sponsored by the Cleveland Neighborhood Development Corporation at OLA/St. Joseph Center.
Award of Excellence, Team Picture Story - Dale Omori / The Plain DealerCleveland mayoral candidate Raymond Pierce greets his supporters just before his City Club debate with opponent Jane Campbell at the downtown Sheraton Hotel.
Award of Excellence, Team Picture Story - Dale Omori / The Plain DealerCleveland mayoral candidate Raymond Pierce gets a hug and words of encouragement from his wife Diane, just before his City Club debate with opponent Jane Campbell at the downtown Sheraton Hotel.
Award of Excellence, Team Picture Story - Lonnie Timmons III / The Plain DealerMayoral candidate Jane Campbell kisses her husband Hunter Morrison at her campaign headquarters.
Award of Excellence, Team Picture Story - Dale Omori / The Plain DealerFramed through microphones and wires Cleveland mayoral candidate Raymond Pierce talks on Ohio Congresswoman Mary Rose Oakar's radio show the day before the election.
Award of Excellence, Team Picture Story - Lonnie TImmons III / The Plain DealerCenter, mayoral candidate Jane Campbell prepares with Michael Settonni (right) and her press secretary, Rodney Jenkins for a televised debate against Raymond Pierce.
Award of Excellence, Team Picture Story - Dale Omori / The Plain DealerCleveland mayoral candidate Raymond Pierce huddles with Team Pierce, Diana Trego and Keli Garrett after a meeting of the Ward 18 Democrats at St. Ignatius Church on Cleveland's West Side. Team Pierce is his advance team, setting up signs, etc., before each campaign stop.
Award of Excellence, Team Picture Story - Dale Omori / The Plain DealerCleveland mayoral candidate Raymond C. Pierce salutes his supporters after losing to Jane Campbell.
Award of Excellence, Team Picture Story - Lonnie Timmons III / The Plain DealerJane Campbell celebrates her victory, November 6, 2001 at the Sheraton in downtown Cleveland.
Award of Excellence, Team Picture Story - Lonnie Timmons III / The Plain DealerCleveland mayor-elect Jane Campbell meets Raymond Pierce as he concedes the Cleveland mayoral race the day after the election at Campbell headquarters.
