NPPA: The Best From the Press

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  3rd Place Feature/Single Picture: "Foggy Fishing"
  Andrew Chidester casts his line at the Weir Dam for his second day fishing. He is from West Virginia and loves the area and the places to visit while he stays in Jonesborough, Tenn., with a friend. The thick fog was a result of a storm the previous night.
  See more online at: Bristol Herald Courier
  
  
  

  Earl Neikirk, Bristol Herald Courier / NPPA

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  1st Place Feature/Single Picture: "Rain Drops"
  Some of the 250 balloons strung up over Dundas Square with 10,000 feet of rope reflect on the wet pavement as Toronto was hit with a burst of afternoon showers as the evening rush hour was about to hit.
  See more online at: Toronto Star
  
  
  

  Steve Russell, Toronto Star / NPPA

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  3rd Place General News: "Family Farewell"
  Carmelo Cruz of Willingboro, N.J., holds his two week old daughter, Athena, with his wife, Angeline, during the last visiting time at the Freehold National Guard armory in Freehold, N.J. New Jersey National Guard Bravo Company 1-114th was shipping out to Ft. Bliss, Texas before heading out to Iraq.
  See more online at: The (Newark) Star-Ledger
  
  
  

  Ed Murray, The (Newark) Star-Ledger / NPPA

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  1st Place Feature/Single Picture: "Traveling Wall"
  Shelly Lawson points out names to her boys, Gavin, 9, and Kaleb, 6, while visiting The Moving Wall, a half-size traveling replica of Washington, D.C.'s, Vietnam Veterans Memorial at the Reichmuth Funeral Home in the Elkhorn area in Omaha, Neb.
  See more online at: Omaha (Nebraska) World-Herald
  
  
  

  Matt Miller, Omaha (Nebraska) World-Herald / NPPA

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  3rd Place Feature/Single Picture: "Turtle Talk"
  "Lexie" a box turtle, and owner Nelle Henning, 6, of Leawood, Kansas, seemed to be discussing strategy before competing in the turtle race at Old Shawnee Days.
  See more online at: The Kansas City Star
  
  
  

  Susan Pfannmuller (Freelance), The Kansas City Star / NPPA

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  2nd Place Illustration: "Ball"
  Armadillidium vulgare, known also as "potato bugs," "doodlebugs," or "roly-polies," are small terrestrial crustaceans that have the ability to ball up inside their exoskeletal shell when disturbed. (Photographed for a staff photo essay interpreting the word "ball.")
  See more online at: Seattle Post-Intelligencer
  
  
  

  Andy Rogers, Seattle Post-Intelligencer / NPPA

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  2nd Place Feature/Single Picture: "Church"
  The congregation of Englewood Christian Church prays on the 50th anniversary of the founding of their church. The celebration also included a pot-luck lunch and dedication of a quilt honoring the church's history.
  See more online at: Yakima Herald
  
  
  

  Sara Gettys, Yakima Herald-Republic / NPPA

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  1st Place Spot News: "No smoke jumping"
  Firefighters battle a shed fire while standing in a yard next to a trampoline. Caused by arching power lines, the blaze caused about $20,000 in damage.
  See more online at: Wenatchee World
  
  
  

  Don Seabrook, The Wenatchee World / NPPA

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  1st Place Sports: "Mutton Bustin' "
  Chance Farnsworth hits the ground as the sheep falls on him briefly during his short ride in the mutton bustin' contest at the final night performance of the Beef Empire Days PRCA Rodeo at the Finney County Fairgrounds in Garden City, Kan.
  See more online at: The Garden City Telegram
  
  
  

  Brad Nading, The Garden City (Kansas) Telegram / NPPA

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  1st Place Sports: "Rodeo Game Face"
  With his rope between his teeth, Cole Wilson dismounts his horse and heads toward a calf during the Tie Down Roping event at the Great American West Rodeo in Logan, Utah.
  See more online at: Herald Journal
  
  
  

  Meegan M. Reid, The Herald Journal / NPPA