First Place, General News - Michael E. Keating / Cincinnati EnquirerTears stream down the face of a firefighter so overcome with emotion that he forgot to salute a fallen comrade during a burial service. Oscar Armstrong III was killed in the line of duty when a flashover fire claimed his life and injured others.
Second Place, General News - Ed Suba Jr. / Akron Beacon JournalSixteen-year-old Michael Devine, a Bush supporter, has a confrontation with a protestor while waiting for the President's motorcade to pass through Richfield. A large group of protestors and some Bush supporters stood in the rain at the intersection of Streetsboro and Broadview Roads to voice their opinions before the Presidents scheduled Labor Day speech at the International Union of Operating Engineers picnic in Richfield Township.
Third Place, General News - Bill Kennedy / The Plain DealerNine-year-old Austin Vogan walks through his uncles backyard on Sugar Street in Celina. The water from Grand Lake St. Mary's has overflowed with recent rain inundating parts of Celina with water.
Award of Excellence, General News - Dale Omori / The Plain DealerMembers of the Baptist Ministers Conference of Cleveland and Vicinity wait at City Hall to talk with Public Safety Director James Draper about complaints of discriminatory promotion methods in the Police Department.
Award of Excellence, General News - Lynn Ischay / The Plain DealerOliver Richard Abernathy Jr. and Katie Bonner of Dayton try to keep dry as they watch President Bush approach the Ohio Operating Engineers Training Center. People were not allowed to carry umbrellas into the center.
Award of Excellence, General News - Marvin Fong / The Plain DealerBarbara McFarland performs an exotic dance for Cuyahoga County Common Pleas Judge Carolyn Friedland, demonstrating a performance she gave last summer at a bar in Warrensville Heights. The bar's owner was charged with pandering obscenity for the act, which included nudity. Friedland later dismissed the charge against bar owner Walter Macon.
