Bill Lackey of the Springfield News-Sun has won the National Associated Press Member Showcase Photo of the Month for May.
The photo, which moved on the wire May 25 shows the driver a car looking out from her vehicle which flipped over after striking a tree.
Of course you can’t write about spot news in Springfield without somehow throwing out the name of Marshall Gorby.
Gorby had the flames come to him and became a spot news story himself while capturing video during a Flag Day ceremony to retire old flags at the Legion Post 286 in New Carlisle.
Fortunately for Gorby responders were already on the scene. You’ll notice that his camera only leaves the flames for a few seconds despite being on fire himself.