First Place, Spot News under 100,000 - Marshall Gordy / Springfield News-SunStacey Marton, holds her son Xander Lydon, 11, after he was struck while riding his bicycle to Rockway school by a hit and run driver along New Carlisle Pike.
Second Place, Spot News under 100,000 - Dave Polcyn / The News JournalA Police Officer tackles a man after he crossed police lines during a standoff on Mulberry Street. The police were looking to serve a warrant on Danny Brown. His mother in the foreground is also rushing toward the back of the house where Brown was supposed to be holed up. It was determined that no one was in the house.
Third Place, Spot News under 100,000 - Shirley Ware / Medina GazetteA storm hit the Medina County Fairgrounds during fair week. As the tornado sirens start to go off, kids start running for cover.
Award of Excellence, Spot News under 100,000 - Apryl Pilolli / Ohio UniversityTommy Moorer, a friend of shooting victim Charles Melvin Tensley, cries at the scene of the shooting while friends try to comfort him.
Award of Excellence, Spot News under 100,000 - Jason Werling / Sandusky RegisterOhio Highway Patrolman Shane Zender makes his way around a pickup that slammed into Kim and Todd Taylor's minivan on E. 3rd Street in Port Clinton. The truck pushed the van into the house, pushing part of the house off of its foundation, knocking over a brick chimney and causing a suspected gas leak.
Award of Excellence, Spot News under 100,000 - Matthew Hovis / Medina GazetteA young amish girl looks at a wrecked horse carriage at the scene of a motor vehicle accident in which her father was injured.
