POY Category Results

Individual Category Winners are listed below

Spot News
	First Place - Ashley Garner - The Sanford Herald
	Caption: Sanford Police officers and detectives comfort Melanie Tyson as she is escorted along with her children after her 2-year-old son was shot and killed at Cannon Circle in Sanford. agrcc
	Second Place - Shawn Rocco - The News & Observer
	Caption: One of three shooting victims on Maple Street in Raleigh is transported to an ambulance. gcyfs shooting
	Third Place - Logan Mock-Bunting - Freelance
	Caption: Scott Vereen (front) and Paul Green move into the smoke and wind, spraying water around their family's home, trying to keep raging wildfires at bay near Conway, SC. The effort succeeded, and only one home in the neighborhood was damaged, despite huge flames being within 50 feet of several structures. ltqmb Orange Haze
	Honorable Mention - Logan Mock-Bunting - Freelance
	Caption: Paul Green runs carrying clothes while trying to help family evacuate, as wildfires approach homes on 4.23.09 near Conway, SC. Gov Mark Sanford declared a state of emergency Thursday for a coastal county where a wildfire has consumed thousands of acres and destroyed dozens of homes. ltqmb Evacuate MB fires
	Honorable Mention - Julian Harrison - Freelance
	Caption: A SWAT member holds a suspect at gunpoint after he surrendered during an armed standoff. Police recovered an arsenal of weapons from the suspect's home. spjrh Armed Standoff
General News
	First Place - Yalonda M. James - The Charlotte Observer
	Caption: Kathy Swafford kisses grandson, Jeremiah Swafford, 2, as family gather around his casket at New Buffalo Baptist Church. Swafford died a victim of child abuse. yiaaf A Long Kiss Good-Bye
	Second Place - John Adkisson - UNC Chapel Hill
	Caption: Tracy Lane, 5, of Duffield, Va., sleeps on the lap of mother Teresa Vernon while she receives dental treatment on Sunday morning. America's War on Healthcare For three days in late July, hundreds of medical and dental professionals and students descended on the mountains of Southwest Virginia to treat the underinsured or uninsured with the help of Remote Area Medical. In that time over 2,700 patients were seen giving hope to the neglected people of rural America.
	Third Place - Ted Richardson - News & Observer
	Caption: Alisha Williams fans her nephew Deandre Belgrave, 8, who tried to cool down, with help from wet paper towels and water bottles, on a pew in the chapel of the Durham Rescue Mission after getting overheated waiting outside since 5:45 am for free school supplies. Temperatures soared into the 90s by the time the crowd was allowed inside. Overheated jkrsl
	Honorable Mention - Chuck Liddy - News & Observer
	Caption: LCpl John Westwood gets instructions from a fellow Marine on the ground as he puts the finishing touches on the American flag he planted at the main gate of FOB Hassanbadin the Helmand Province of Afghanistan. POTUS SEMPER FI
Feature
	First Place - John Adkisson - UNC Chapel Hill
	Caption: Lorca Lechuga-Haeseler, of Asheville, dumpster dives for bags of vegetables behind a grocery store while working for Food Not Bombs on Sunday, May 17, 2009. The group prepares food gathered through donations and dumpster diving to feed impoverished people and the community.
	Second Place - Corey Lowenstein - The News & Observer
	Caption: Showing that age is just a number, members of the Durham Divas cheering squad like Ann Gore, 83, left rear, Bertie Bates, 71, center, and Mary Walker, 66, far right, entertained the crowd at the reopening of the old Durham Athletic Park, after its $5.5 million restoration project. Started in 2004, members of group are eligible to join if they live in Durham and if they're over the age of 55. They wowed the crowd with their energy, charm and their sass. - clomo Sassy Seniors
	Third Place - Christine Nguyen - The Herald-Sun
	Caption: Ava Sorgman (cq), 7, of Chapel Hill sits at Weaver Street Market during the 36th annual Community Fourth of July Celebration on Saturday, July 4, 2009. Sorgman, who was dressed as Uncle Sam, won first place in the youth ages 6-to-11-years-old category in the costume contest.
	Honorable Mention - Jerry Wolford - News-Record
	Caption: Lowell Curry, dressed as a British Third Guard, teases a child on N. Elm St. on Saturday, July 5, 2008 in Greensboro, NC as the Revolutionary Soldier reenactors had finished a performance.
	Honorable Mention - Ethan Hyman - The News & Observer
	Caption: Justin Banner jumps across the huge pool of water flowing down South Salisbury Street as he heads towards The Big Easy during heavy rain showers in Raleigh Friday afternoon July 17, 2009. ejhke Puddle Jump
Sports Action
	First Place - Ethan Hyman - The News & Observer
	Caption: Maryland's Marissa Coleman goes over Duke's Karima Christmas for the loose ball during the second half of Duke's 92-89 overtime loss to Maryland in the finals of the Women's ACC Basketball Tournament Sunday March 8, 2009, at the Greensboro Coliseum. ETHAN HYMAN - ethan.hyman@newsobserver.com
	Second Place - Jerry Wolford - News-Record
	Caption: Page's Rob Lovejoy (right) and T C Roberson's Parker Holland (left) battle for possession of the ball. Page won the game 2-1 and will advance to the championship game.
	Third Place - Jeff Siner - The Charlotte Observer
	Caption: Washington Redskins (22) cornerback Carlos Rogers knocks down a pass in the end zone meant for Carolina Panthers wide receiver (89) Steve Smith. jdsiner Eye for the Ball
	Honorable Mention - Mark Dolejs - Freelance
	Caption: East Surry's Hannah Merritt scores in the 6th inning as Swain County pitcher Shelby Parker looses control of the ball in their game in the 2009 NCHSAA Class A Softball Championship at Walnut Creek Softball Complex on Saturday, June 6, 2009. mudai Missed Catch
	Honorable Mention - Robert Franklin - Appalachian State University
	Caption: Appalachian State's Devon Moore and N.C. Central's Brian Frierson struggle in mid-air for a catch during ASU's Homecoming game against N.C. Central in Boone, NC on October, 10, 2009.
Sports Feature
	First Place - Andrew Craft - The Fayetteville Observer
	Caption: The hounds gather around Huntsman Codie Hayes, center, as they wait to be blessed before heading out for the Moore County Hounds fox hunt Thanksgiving Day at Hobby Field in Southern Pines, N.C. This year, 17-year-old Hayes stepped in when the usual huntsman, her grandfather Jody Murtagh, was injured in a fall and could not ride. ciabp Fox Hunt
	Second Place - Jeff Siner - The Charlotte Observer
	Caption: Miranda Cooper (seated), laughs as golfer Jason Dufner (left) waits for an official (center) to rule after his ball landed on Cooper's lap. jdsin Hit It Where It Lies?
	Third Place - Jeff Siner - The Charlotte Observer
	Caption: Students reach out and try to grab a glove tossed by Carolina Panthers running back DeAngelo Williams. jdsin Souvenir Glove
	Honorable Mention - Jeff Siner - The Charlotte Observer
	Caption: Baseball campers battle one another attempting to grab a pop-up. jdsin I Got It
	Honorable Mention - Jeff Siner - The Charlotte Observer
	Caption: Charlotte Knights John Van Benschoten reaches out to tap fists with Chris Huppmann, following the National Anthem. jdsin Major League Tap
Portrait Personality
	First Place - Chris Carmichael - University of North Carolina a
	Caption: Rev. Ed Taylor performs a soundcheck in preperation for an upcoming concert outside of Gatlinburg Marriage Ministries in Gatlinburg, Tenn. During his 31 years presiding over marriages at Gatlinburg Marriage Ministries, Taylor has married more than 80,000 couples, which is believed to be a world record. But in a slumping economy he says more couples are choosing to cohabitate in order to defer the cost of a wedding.
	Second Place - Logan Mock-Bunting - Freelance
	Caption: Amanda Egdorf-Sand is a soil specialist who works with small farmers in North Carolina. Here she participates in a Crop Mob - an activity in which farmers from different farms work together to complete a major project at one location.
	Third Place - Corey Lowenstein - The News & Observer
	Caption: The recession pushed Walt Kline, 75, an IBM retiree with Alzheimer's disease, out of his $4,800-a-month assisted-living center and into a low-rated Chatham County nursing home. His wife's recent layoff was the cause, a situation hitting increasing numbers of older people who once thought they were well prepared for retirement. - clomo Out of house and home and money
Pictorial
	First Place - Chuck Liddy - News & Observer
	Caption: Dancers are strewn across the second floor in the Durham Performing Arts Center Thursday June 18, 2009 as the American Dance Festival opens the 2009 season. POTUS DANCERS
	Second Place - David T. Foster, III - The Charlotte Observer
	Caption: A bird takes flight across the Charlotte skyline as rain and fog encase the top of the Bank of America Corporate Center on Sunday afternoon. Forecasts are calling for rain through Monday with highs in the 50s. dfunc FOGGY FLIGHT
	Third Place - Andrew Craft - The Fayetteville Observer
	Caption: The Westover High School marching band march single file onto the football field to perform before the start of the football game against E.E. Smith High School in Fayetteville, N.C. ciabp Marching
Illustration
	First Place - Jerry Wolford - News-Record
	Caption: Eddie McLaurin, the owner of the local haunted attraction, Woods of Terror, leads his monsters into his 14th season. The attraction is rated as one of America's Best Haunts. McLaurin and his zombies.
	Second Place - Arkasha Stevenson - University of North Carolina a
	Caption: While the clown is intended to pose as a child friendly figure, he is historically meant as an augur of tragedy. For example, in Marlena Dietrich's movie Blue Angel, the entrance of the clown symbolized the demise of the protagonist. With their exaggerated body parts such as hands, feet, noses, and mouths it is clear how clowns fit into an act that features physical deformities. Concidering this and the character's history, it is not unpredictable that in modern American culture the clown has taken a darker turn. With such popular cultural references such as Stephen King's book It featuring a make believe killer clown, the serial killer John Wayne Gacy who would pose as Pogo the Clown up until his arrest, and the Joker who is the evil villain depicted in the Batman cartoons, it is probable that modern day culture's use of the evil clown has evoked the almost automatic association of the dark, grim. tragic, and grimy with that of the supposed carefree clown. The image above attempts to portray the clown after hours in his tragic state.
	Third Place - Arkasha Stevenson - University of North Carolina a
	Caption: Christmas Cookies: Leaving cookies and milk for Santa to snack on while delivering Christmas presents is a long-time tradition in many households with children. mudai Cookies
News Picture Story
	First Place - Logan Mock-Bunting - Freelance
	Caption: Paul Green runs carrying clothes while trying to help family evacuate, as wildfires approach homes on 4.23.09 near Conway, SC. South Carolina Gov Mark Sanford declared a state of emergency Thursday for a coastal county where a wildfire has consumed thousands of acres and destroyed dozens of homes. ltqmb Evacuate MB fires
	Second Place - Jerry Wolford - News-Record
	Caption: Animal control officer Paul Loflin arrives on the scene at Little Gym, a children's gymnastics business, where a deer leapt through the glass windows.
	Third Place - Logan Mock-Bunting - Freelance
	Caption: A spectator reacts while watching the inauguration ceremony of Barack Obama on jumbotron screens on the National Mall, January 20, 2009. Obama took the oath as the nation's 44th, and first African-American, President. ltqmb Faces 1
	Honorable Mention - Andrew Craft - The Fayetteville Observer
	Caption: Paratroopers, from the 82nd Airborne Division, 2nd Brigade Combat Team, grab their gear and head to awaiting buses, which will take them to green ramp to board planes for a nighttime jump. The paratroopers were taking part in a joint forcible entry exercise on Fort Bragg. ciabp Back on Call
Feature Picture Story
	First Place - Todd Sumlin - The Charlotte Observer
	Caption: A big part of Lexi's daily therapy is swimming. Free from the confines of her wheelchair, she is able to travel easily through the water with help from her mom.
	Second Place - courtney potter - University of North Carolina a
	Caption: Rosa Chivian, 9, is a Shuar Indian and recent amputee from deep in Ecuadorian Amazon jungle. Since her people believe that accidents are curses from evil spirits, her family fled with Rosa to another province to escape the shame of being cursed. Now the family is living at the Hospital Vozandes del Oriente in Shell, Ecuador, as Rosa undergoes rehabilitation and learns how to transcend the stigma attached to her malady. cpott Helping Rosa
	Third Place - Jeff Siner - The Charlotte Observer
	Caption: Rashale got love and attention from one of her favorite friends, Miss Kim of Hospitality House where she stayed when she was not hospitalized getting chemotherapy. jdsin An Unexpected Turn
	Honorable Mention - Chuck Liddy - News & Observer
	Caption: LCpl John Westwood gets instructions from a fellow Marine on the ground as he puts the finishing touches on the American flag he planted at the main gate of FOB Hassanbad which Golf Company of the 2/2 calls home in the Helmand Province of Afghanistan.CHUCK LIDDY-chuck.liddy@newsobserver.com
Sports Picture Story
	First Place - Jerry Wolford - News-Record
	Caption: Members of the Battle Forest team came as a wedding party for the swimmers parade that took place before the afternoon competition.
	Second Place - Andrew Craft - The Fayetteville Observer
	Caption: Hunters wait on their horses for the other hunters to arrive for the Thanksgiving Day Moore County Hounds fox hunt in Southern Pines, N.C. ciabp Hounds & Fog
	Third Place - Jeff Siner - The Charlotte Observer
	Caption: NASCAR driver Jimmie Johnson's pit crew hurries around his car during a pit stop at Daytona International Speedway. Johnson won his fourth consecutive NASCAR Championship in 2009. jdsin That's Racin'
Professional Portfolio
	First Place - Andrew Craft - The Fayetteville Observer
	Caption: Native American Jay Hill dances in the circle to the beat of drums at the 2009 Spring Powwow Friday, May 1, 2009, in Lumberton, N.C. ciabp Sunset Dance
Student Portfolio
	First Place - John Adkisson - UNC Chapel Hill
	Caption: William Allen takes part in a group prayer while participating in the Taking Back the City revival held at Melrose Park on Wednesday evening in Roanoke. Leaders from about half a dozen local congregations organized the event to reach out to the community. We need Him, Allen said. I need him.