Patrick Connolly
First Place
Ohio University
$3,000 Scholarship
- Joan Hobbs, 53, holds photos of herself outside of her northeast Las Vegas home, showing how she looked before being attacked by a dog, on Tuesday, May 9, 2017. "I used to be beautiful," Hobbs said. "Now I'm not, and it's not my fault."
- Ron Decar, owner of Viva Las Vegas, who dressed as Elvis, drives Missie Berry and Robert Moseley into the chapel to renew their wedding vows at the Viva Las Vegas Wedding Chapel on Saturday, June 3, 2017. Decar sometimes has to change characters four or five times throughout a day while officiating over themed weddings.
- Pop Peterson dons stockings and a corset at their Athens, Ohio, home on Tuesday, Oct. 10, 2017. Peterson performs in drag shows and often dresses in unconventional ways.
- Fans take pictures of a bodybuilder at the Arnold Classic Sports Festival in Columbus, Ohio, on March 4, 2017. The festival started in 1989 in Columbus and now features more than 18,000 athletes competing in 70 sports and events.
- Kai James, 9, glances over at the life-size clown known as "Mr. Creepy" in the lobby of the Clown Motel in Tonopah, Nevada, on Tuesday, July 25, 2017. James came with his brother and mother from Las Vegas to stay for a night and dressed up in clown attire.
- Ronald Riley II, 6, runs with 10-week-old Peppa Pig as firefighters work on putting out a fire at Carriage Hill Apartments in Athens, Ohio, on Sunday, Feb. 26. The fire started just after 4 p.m. and quickly spread to multiple floors, displacing residents in 30 units.
- Ramona Gantz, center left, comforts Debra Pleasant, center right, the grandmother of Roland Pleasant, during the sentencing for Eric Javon Bell at the Regional Justice Center in Las Vegas on Monday, July 17, 2017. Pleasant's family and friends attended the sentencing seeking justice after Bell pleaded guilty to killing 18-year-old Pleasant.