First Place, Spot News under 100,000 - Carrie Cochran / Pulse-JournalJay Fisher, father in-law of Donald Haury, age 50 of Bellbrook, Ohio reacts right after Haury's sister-in-law Pamela Short tells him that Donald was fatally shot at Watkins Motor Lines, Inc. on Centre Park Drive in West Chester Township. Tom West surrendered to police at a truck stop in Indiana hours later. The shooting left three wounded and two dead.
Second Place, Spot News under 100,000 - Aaron Rudolph / The Morning JournalAlexa Mason, (from left), Coty Heveroy and Joseph Smith cover their mouths and eyes as the old Salem China Co. burns.
Third Place, Spot News under 100,000 - Abigail Bobrow / Port Clinton News HeraldThe Ottawa County Sheriff's Office Special Response Team makes a move to take Dennis A. Pitts, of Sidney, Ohio into custody at the Ohio 2 exit ramp on Saturday morning in Port Clinton. After a car chase with police which ended when he crashed into another vehicle, Pitts had refused to exit his car.
Award of Excellence, Spot News under 100,000 - Bill Lackey / Springfield News-SunA deer trophy is strapped into the drivers seat of a car being towed behind a moving van involved in a two car accident under investigation by members of the Ohio State Highway Patrol and Mechanicsburg fire departments in the background along State Route 4. The driver of the moving van said he couldn't fit the deer in the truck so he strapped it into the car for his move.
Award of Excellence, Spot News under 100,000 - Matthew Hovis / Medina GazetteThe headlights from traffic stopped by the Highway Patrol stream off into the background at a car burns along the interstate on a cold February night in 2003.
Award of Excellence, Spot News under 100,000 - Matthew Hovis / Medina GazetteRescue worker attempt to save a horse that fell through the ice of a farmer's pond in early February 2003. Using ropes they were able to pull the horse onto try land before hypothermia set in.
