First Place, Spot News over 100,000 - Joshua Gunter / The Plain DealerFour children that were taken in a van during a high-speed police chase run to be reunited with their mother after the chase ended June 29, 2006 in Cleveland. Police chased the van around eastern Cleveland until it turned onto Catalpa, a dead-end road where the driver, a man that may be their father, fled on foot. Police pursued and tasered the man in a back yard of a home.
Second Place, Spot News over 100,000 - Glenn Hartong / Cincinnati EnquirerLincoln Heights firefighter Marvin Spears slowly reaches towards a cat as it hangs off of the gutter of a two story apartment building at the Valley Homes Apartment on North Leggett Court in Lincoln Heights. Residents called the fire department to rescue the cat that had been up on the roof for several days. Just as firefighter Speqars reach out to the the cat it dropped from the gutter landed on its feet and ran off into a nearby wooded area.
Third Place, Spot News over 100,000 - James D. DeCamp / The Columbus DispatchColumbus Police look over the scene of a homicide behind 1300 East Broad Street October 5, 2006 where a male victim had been shot at about 10:30 PM. Police detained 5 people from from a house at 24 North Princeton where witnesses said that the shooter had run to after the crime.
Award of Excellence, Spot News over 100,000 - Chuck Crow / The Plain DealerMilton McClain, Jr., holds onto his mother-in-law, Linda Seals, as Seals just found out that her father had died this morning in an accidental fire in his home. John Lawlah, Sr. was found dead in his home by the fire department around 9:00am.
Award of Excellence, Spot News over 100,000 - David I. Andersen / The Plain DealerA rainbow forms in the mist from the water being sprayed by Cleveland firefighters as they battle flames in the peak of the roof of a vacant house on East 109th Street. Insulation from the attic covers the firefighters. No injuries were reported.
Award of Excellence, Spot News over 100,000 - David I. Andersen / The Plain DealerMaggie Skobel, 13, hangs onto her cat, Trouble and dog, Goldie as she is comforted on a porch across the street from her house at 2025 W. 98th Street in Cleveland which caught fire forcing herself, her grandmother and two cousins to flee. The fire gutted the porch and front living room. No injuries reported.
Award of Excellence, Spot News over 100,000 - Patrick Reddy / Cincinnati EnquirerCharles Turner, of Newport, sits on the bumper of an ambulance after escaping injury when he flipped his GMC pickup truck on an interstate ramp.
Award of Excellence, Spot News over 100,000 - Phil Masturzo / Akron Beacon JournalDiane Messenger is overcome at the site of a fatal fire on Dec. 28, 2006, on Second Street Southwest in Canton. Her cousin Tommy Moyer and four others died in the early-morning fire.
