Feature - 1st place - Junior contestants wait for the judge to inspect their chickens at the 2025 Eastern National IWBA competition in Greenville. (Wesley Blackburn / Daily Advocate)
Feature - 2nd place - Moose (left) and Samson eat dog friendly ice cream during a dog Halloween costume contest at O-Deer Diner in Perrysburg. (Rebecca Benson / The Blade)
Feature - 3rd place - Twinsburg High School’s homecoming queen, senior Shayla Alexander is announced alongside the king, senior Kendall Blow in Twinsburg, Ohio. (Andrew Dolph / Akron Beacon Journal)
Feature - HM - Jackman Road Elementary 4th grader Romeo Smith uses his Veggie Bucks to buy apples during a Farm to School Event for all Bedford Public Schools 4th graders at Douglas Road Elementary in Lambertville, Michigan. (Jeremy Wadsworth / The Blade)
General News - 1st place - Riverside Mobile Home Park resident Chuck Parker kisses his pet deer, Lotus Rain in front of his home in Toledo. Mr. Parker is being forced to vacate his mobile home because it and the rest of the homes in the park were condemned by the City of Toledo on May 23. (Jeremy Wadsworth / The Blade)
General News - 2nd place - New United States citizens celebrate with confetti after the formalities during a naturalization ceremony at the Rutherford B. Hayes Presidential Center in Fremont. (Kurt Steiss / The Blade)
General News - 3rd place - Toledo Police Sergeant Jamal Owens tries to negotiate with Mike Ferner and other protesters to stop blocking the entrance to the Ohio Building in Toledo. The activists are trying to draw attention to the war in Gaza. The Ohio Building was chosen because it houses U.S. Sen. Jon Husted's Toledo office. (Jeremy Wadsworth / The Blade)
Portrait - 1st place - Akron jazz pianist Theron Brown, aka, “Mr. Magnetic” talked about his upcoming immersive audio album premier, Oct. 23, 2025, at House Three Thirty in Akron. (Andrew Dolph / Akron Beacon Journal)
Portrait - 2nd place - Charlie Wagoner, 100, is the oldest living TARTA retiree at his home in south Toledo. (Jeremy Wadsworth / The Blade)
Portrait - 2nd place - Pemberville farmer Dave Moenter sells unique vegetables such as purple cauliflower outside of Bethlehem Lutheran Church during the Harvest Gathering festival, in Pemberville. (Addison Annis / The Blade)
Sports Feature - 1st place - Darby Llewellyn lays on the ground for a silly photo during the Toledo Walleye media day at the Huntington Center in Toledo. (Rebecca Benson / The Blade)
Sports Feature - 2nd place - Dayton's Olivia Baca leaps in celebration after scoring the go ahead goal against LaSalle in the second half of action during the quarter final match of the Atlantic 10 Conference Tournament. The Match was hosted by the Dayton Flyers at Baujan Field. Dayton defeated LaSalle 3-1 to advance to the semi-final round of the Tournament. (Erik Schelkun / Elsestar Images)
Sports Feature - 3rd place - Dayton Flyers Head Coach Trevor Andrews soaks himself with a water bottle in the locker room following his teams 35-19 upset victory over nationally ranked Presbyterian College at Welcome Stadium in Dayton. (Erik Schelkun / Elsestar Images)
Spot News - HM - Monica Moning, of Akron, protests outside the Summit County Courthouse after a Summit County grand jury returned a no bill decision clearing Akron Police office Davon Fields in the death of Jazmir Tucker in Akron. (Andrew Dolph, Akron Beacon Journal / Akron Beacon Journal)
Sports - 1st place - Keonte Jones of Dayton, and Mason Blackwood of Penn State collide as they battle for a loose ball during the 2nd half of action of the CareSource Charity Exhibition game at UD Arena. The Dayton Flyers led wire-to wire defeating Penn State 78-62 (Erik Schelkun / Elsestar Images)
Sports - 2nd place - Aurora’s Colton Simmerman (top) heads the ball over Kent Roosevelt’s Kellen Obraza during the second half of a high school soccer match in Aurora. (Jeff Lange / Akron Beacon Journal)
Sports - 3rd place - University of Toledo safety Eric Williams blocks a punt from Kent State’s Charlie Durkin during the third quarter of a game at Glass Bowl Stadium in Toledo. (Jeremy Wadsworth / The Blade)
Story - 1st place - Chad Warner harvests one of his soybean fields in Arcanum, Ohio. China, the United States’ biggest consumer, has not placed any soybean orders this year due to ongoing tariffs and new trade deals with other countries, and farmers in Darke County, Ohio’s top soybean-producing county, are preparing for a difficult harvest. With China absent and prices falling, the lack of demand pushes overall soybean prices down and impacts all sellers. The industry is now working to expand global demand and find new buyers, with new trade deals in places like Europe, Japan, Vietnam, and Taiwan. (Wesley Blackburn / Daily Advocate)
Story - 2nd place - Sue Terrill holds a sign in protest to the war in Gaza in front of the Ohio Building in Toledo. The activists are trying to draw attention to the war in Gaza. The Ohio Building was chosen because it houses U.S. Sen. Jon Husted's Toledo office. (Jeremy Wadsworth / The Blade)
Story - 3rd place - A classic old-school cash register that survived the fire sits on the counter inside of Schmucker's Restaurant in Toledo. (Addison Annis / The Blade)
