Feature - 1st place - Pete Lach of Pella Windows works on removing old windows from the Black Acre building on 14th Street in Toledo. (Jeremy Wadsworth / The Blade)
Feature - 2nd place - Percussionists in the My5tery Music Band and Step Team beat their drums while performing after the Annual Tree Lighting near Levis Square in Toledo. (Addison Annis / The Blade)
Feature - 3rd place - Laura Balazs, 8, claps for the recognition of World War II veteran John Searle, during the annual Veterans Day Program at Frank Elementary School in Perrysburg. (Addison Annis / The Blade)
Feature - HM - The northern lights were visible throughout the area, including from Miami County outside Piqua. (Bryant Billing / Dayton Daily News)
General News - 1st place - The Anthony Wayne High School marching band marches by during the Holiday Parade in Toledo. (Kurt Steiss / The Blade)
General News - 2nd place - Lynn Spino cries while hugging her cousin, Danielle Spino, after speaking about losing her son Nicholas during an event ahead of World Day of Remembrance for Road Traffic Victims at Ottawa Park in Toledo. (Addison Annis / The Blade)
General News - 3rd place - Hundreds of people attend a candlelight vigil for two children and an adult who were killed by a gunman who then took his own life at the East Green Amphitheater in Tiffin. (Jeremy Wadsworth / The Blade)
General News - HM - A man finishes making his voting selections while at Centenary United Methodist Church on Election Day in Akron. (Andrew Dolph / Akron Beacon Journal)
Portrait - 1st place - Army Veteran Bill Schultz at his home in Findlay. (Jeremy Wadsworth / The Blade)
Portrait - 2nd place - Sven Olaf Nelson looks through a drawer of cursive letters in his new print shop, Pineapple Press, in Toledo. (Daniel Carlson / The Blade)
Portrait - 3rd place - 2025 All-Blade Football Player of the Year Garrison Kruse in Liberty Center. (Jeremy Wadsworth / The Blade)
Portrait - HM - Lindsey Cook with her award winning English Setter Tyler in Pemberville. (Jeremy Wadsworth / The Blade)
Sports Feature - 1st place - Toledo's Patricia Anumgba warms up before the Rockets' matchup against the Detroit Mercy Titans at Savage Arena in Toledo. (Daniel Carlson / The Blade)
Sports Feature - 2nd place - Ottawa Hills fans celebrate a goal save as the Green Bears play against the Maumee Valley Hawks in a Division V boys regional soccer final at Lake High School. (Daniel Carlson / The Blade)
Sports Feature - 3rd place - Wright State senior guard Claire Henson signs autographs for Springfield Shawnee Middle School students as Phillip Reveal (left) reacts after Henson signed his shirt following a game against Bellarmine at the Nutter Center in Fairborn. Over 30 schools attended the program's annual Education Day game. The attendance was over 6,000. (Bryant Billing / Dayton Daily News)
Sports Feature - HM - Whitmer’s Markel Watson celebrates their 17-3 win over Perrysburg with his teammates in a high school football game. (Rebecca Benson / The Blade)
Spot News - 1st place - Firefighters battle a house blaze on Ramblehurst Road in Sylvania Township. (Kurt Steiss / The Blade)
Sports - 1st place - St. Henry quarterback Charlie Werling runs ahead of Marion Local defenders for a 45-yard touchdown in the second quarter of the Division VII, Region 28 championship at Mercy Health/Wapak VFW Field in Wapakoneta. Werling scored four touchdowns to help the Redskins win 24-7 and snap a 76-game winning streak by the Flyers. (Bryant Billing / Dayton Daily News)
Sports - 2nd place - Ohio’s Caden Curry pulls Michigan’s Bryson Kuzdzal’s jersey at Michigan Stadium in Ann Arbor. (Addison Annis / The Blade)
Sports - 3rd place - Toledo’s Sean Craig wrestles Marshall’s Wyatt Fricks for a rebound during a game at Savage Arena in Toledo. (Addison Annis / The Blade)
Sports - HM - Perrysburg’s Adyson Brown battles Strongsville’s Addison Eichenberger for the ball during a Division I regional final soccer match at Contractors Stadium in Norwalk. (Jeremy Wadsworth / The Blade)
Sports - HM - Wright State sophomore forward Andrea Holden, a Hamilton alum, dunks in the first half of a season opener against Franklin College at Ervin J. Nutter Center in Fairborn. Holden scored eight points and had six rebounds and a team-high two blocks in an 86-37 victory in the squad's season opener. (Bryant Billing / Dayton Daily News)
Story - 1st place - Mark Farnsel smiles as his grandson, Kenny, 8, climbs into the combine to help harvest soybeans at Farnsel Farms in Metamora. (Addison Annis / The Blade)
Story - 2nd place - Port Clinton’s Morgan Wiechman leads the pack at the start of the Div III state cross country championships at Fortress Obetz & Memorial Park in Obetz, Ohio. (Andrew Dolph / Akron Beacon Journal)
Story - 3rd place - A worker clears leaves from a path at F.A. Seiberling Nature Realm during the first snow fall of the season in Akron. (Andrew Dolph / Akron Beacon Journal)
Story - HM - Mourners attend a candlelight vigil for two children and an adult who were killed by a gunman who then took his own life at the East Green Amphitheater in Tiffin. (Jeremy Wadsworth / The Blade)
