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First Place, Team Picture Story - John Kuntz / The Plain DealerA quiet Cleveland neighborhood was transformed into a grisly crime scene when police found the bodies of 11 women in and around the Imperial Avenue home of Anthony Sowell. Police say Sowell lured the women into his house with drugs and alcohol, raped and strangled them, and then lived in the house surrounded by their decomposing corpses. A woman points to a missing persons poster of her friend, Janice Webb, who was one of the 11 women allegedly murdered by Anthony Sowell.
First Place, Team Picture Story - John Kuntz / The Plain DealerA crowd gathers as the grisly search on Imperial Avenue progresses. Neighbors noticed a stench coming from the vicinity of the house.
First Place, Team Picture Story - John Kuntz / The Plain DealerCoroners dig in the backyard at the home of Anthony Sowell as they exhume another body. On this night, eight more bodies were found.
First Place, Team Picture Story - Marvin Fong / The Plain DealerPolice examine an area below the front steps of the Sowell home to look for evidence of more bodies.
First Place, Team Picture Story - John Kuntz / The Plain DealerCoroners fasten straps around a body dug up from Sowell's back yard.
First Place, Team Picture Story - Gus Chan / The Plain DealerAs the search for more bodies continues, a Cleveland firefighter works with a cadaver dog at the former Lafayette Elementary School, a few blocks from the home of Anthony Sowell.
First Place, Team Picture Story - John Kuntz / The Plain DealerHundreds of people flocked to Anthony Sowell's home in the days after police began finding bodies. Some were curious onlookers but others brought photos of their missing sisters, mothers and daughters, hoping they were not among the dead.
First Place, Team Picture Story - Thomas Ondrey / The Plain DealerSeveral hundred people gather in Luke Easter Park, just blocks away from the site of the murders, for a vigil in remembrance of the victims.
First Place, Team Picture Story - John Kuntz / The Plain DealerPolice arrested Sowell while he was walking a few blocks from his house. On Nov. 12, 2009, he was arraigned under heavy security.
First Place, Team Picture Story - Lisa DeJong / The Plain DealerEleven separate funerals were held for the victims of Imperial Avenue. Here, relatives of Amelda Hunter gather around her casket at The Word Church in Warrensville Heights. Hunter was last seen alive in April.
First Place, Team Picture Story - Thomas Ondrey / The Plain DealerAlice Matthews of Cleveland mourns with others at funeral services for Janice Webb held at St. Timothy Baptist Church on Nov. 16, 2009. Matthews said she was a close friend of Webb, one of the 11 women found buried on the Imperial Avenue property of Anthony Sowell.
First Place, Team Picture Story - John Kuntz / The Plain DealerA prayer candle sits among flowers placed on the sidewalk on the corner of Imperial Avenue and East 123rd Street across the street from the home of alleged mass murderer Anthony Sowell.
Second Place, Team Picture Story - / The Columbus Dispatch
Second Place, Team Picture Story - Jeff Hinckley / The Columbus DispatchH1N1, or swine flu, has sickened about 50 million Americans and killed about 10,000, according to estimates released in December 2009 by federal health officials. In Columbus, vaccinations began on October 20 for pregnant women, caregivers of infants younger than 6 months and health-care workers. Adelina Vargas, from Costa Rica, wears a face mask as she walks through the luggage terminal at Port Columbus. Her flight from Costa Rica included a layover in Houston.
Second Place, Team Picture Story - Courtney Hergesheimer / The Columbus DispatchHigh risk people like children, pregnant women and caregivers line up at the Ohio Historical Society to receive the H1N1 vaccine, October 28, 2009.
Second Place, Team Picture Story - Jeff Hinckley / The Columbus DispatchKasey Conyers, of Victorian Village, who is 9 months pregnant, holds her son Greyson, 3, in a line of healthcare workers, pregnant women and caregivers of young children waiting for their flu shots at the Columbus Public Health building on Parsons Ave., Oct., 20, 2009.
Second Place, Team Picture Story - Eric Albrecht / The Columbus DispatchNikki Branch holds her son Julian Branch, 2, while nurse Bari Jackson administers the H1N1 vaccine at Vets Memorial. This was his second dose.
Second Place, Team Picture Story - Tom Dodge / The Columbus DispatchSuperintendent Deb Delisle (left) with Dr. Alvin Jackson, center, Director of Ohio Dept. of Health and Governor Ted Strickland, right, during a H1N1 briefing in the Governor's Cabinet room October 7, 2009. Dr. Jackson is demonstrating the cough-in-your-elbow technique.
Second Place, Team Picture Story - Jonathan Quilter / The Columbus DispatchThe line starts moving for people waiting to get the H1N1 vaccination at Franklin County Veterans Memorial on November 3, 2009.
Second Place, Team Picture Story - Fred Squillante / The Columbus DispatchNathan Fischer brought a laptop and a movie (Monsters Inc.) to keep daughter Elle, 22 months, occupied as they wait in line for an H1N1 flu shot at the Ohio Historical Society, Oct. 28, 2009.
Second Place, Team Picture Story - Fred Squillante / The Columbus DispatchJacob Bednar, 3, being held by his mom, Sarah Bednar, is an unwilling recipient of the H1N1 nasal vaccine, Dec. 11, 2009 at Lifecare Alliance in Columbus.
Second Place, Team Picture Story - Jonathan Quilter / The Columbus DispatchAbout 40 minutes after the clinic officially started this sign let people know that officials had handed out all the tickets representing the number of H1N1 vaccinations available at Franklin County Veterans Memorial on November 3, 2009.
