First Place, Portrait Personality - Carolyn Rogers / Ohio University, "Scouts"Nine-year-old twins, Adele and Mavery McCombs, of Marietta, were the first girls to join Cub Scout Pack 207 after Boy Scouts of America announced that girls were allowed to join. “In 10 years this isn’t going to matter to anyone,” their mom, Jamie McCombs said, “It’s just going to be scouting.”
Second Place, Portrait Personality - Katie Rausch / The Blade, "Grandmother's Love""She was our oxygen," Kendra Hunter, 40, said as she clutched Minnie Mouse dolls belonging to her granddaughter Serenity Hunter, 1, who died April 4, 2018, after allegedly being hit and thrown into the couch, pictured, at her home in Toledo. The boyfriend of Serenity's mother Joshua Herron, 30, is charged with the murder.
Third Place, Portrait Personality - Liz Moughon / Ohio University, "Young Love"Isis Mayle, 17, embraces her boyfriend, Elijah Byrd, 16, at his home in Stewart, Ohio, as they re-tell the story of the ups and downs of their relationship.
Award of Excellence, Portrait Personality - Kyle Robertson / The Columbus Dispatch, "Quentin Smith"Quentin L. Smith, accused of killing two Westerville police officers, makes his initial appearance in Franklin County Municipal Court on February 20, 2018. Prosecutor Ron O’Brien, left shadow, and Columbus Police detective Gregory Sheppard, right shadow, filed a motion asking that Smith be held without bail that Municipal Court Judge Paul Herbert granted.
Award of Excellence, Portrait Personality - Katie Rausch / The Blade, "Family Gown"Sisters Peg Coutcher and Therese Kralovic keep good care of a First Communion dress made from the fabric of their maternal grandmother's wedding gown worn in 1908. The First Communion dress has been worn by at least 14 girls over more than four generations, including the 10 holding the dress, pictured. The dress is made from fabric of a wedding gown worn by Emily Schimpf on her wedding on September 30, 1908, to her husband Michael.
Award of Excellence, Portrait Personality - Madeleine Hordinski / Ohio University, "Quiet"Artist Elsa Kennedy rests her head beneath a bridge in Eden Park, Cincinnati, on December 23, 2018.
Award of Excellence, Portrait Personality - Lisa DeJong / The Plain Dealer, "Bed of Poverty"James McIntire, 46, sits with his girlfriend Brenda Maupin, 58, as she rests on their bare mattress in the bedroom of their two-room apartment above the barbershop in downtown Woodsfield in Monroe County. Devastated by two major aluminum plant closings and a withering coal industry, Monroe County faces the highest unemployment rate in the state, 6 percent in September. "I'm doing what I have to do to survive," says McIntire.
Award of Excellence, Portrait Personality - Madeleine Hordinski / Ohio University, "Sabina"Sabina, 16, rests her head on a mirror in Cincinnati, on October 13, 2018.
