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2018 Hoosier State Press Association Foundation Better Newspaper Contest Awards Saturday, Sept. 15, 2018 Special Awards Category: 01 Division 3 Best News Coverage Under First Freedom Award Deadline Pressure Third Mark Alesia, Tim Evans, Katie Clontz Marisa Kwiatkowski Division 1 The Courier-Times Indianapolis Star Police officer shot Third Second Staff Nina Mason Pulliam Charitable Scott Slade The Commercial Review Trust Environmental Award The Times-Post Destruction Seth Slabauggh Missing couple’s bodies found The Star-Press First Second Staff Charlie Biggs Commitment to Rob Hunt The Tribune (Seymour) Community Award The Times-Post Crash leads to chemical fire Ken de la Bastide High school bans Confederate flag The Herald-Bulletin Division 4 First Frank O’Bannon Sunshine Award Ashton Brellenthin Third Ty Bibbs Hendricks County Flyer Caitlin VanOverberghe Anderson City Council Avon shooting leaves one dead, one Daily Reporter critical ‘You’re just watching your dreams burn down’ Division 2 Second Third Danielle Grady Chandra L. Mattingly The News and Tribune The Journal-Press (Aurora) ‘Don’t end up like me’ Purple Heart recipient, daughter found dead First Caitlin VanOverberghe Second Daily Reporter Joe Awad One dead in house fire Dearborn County Register Firefighters battle snow, ice to reach Division 5 cabin Third First Ken de la Bastide & Stu Hirsch Sara Clifford The Herald Bulletin Brown County Democrat Lapel couple found Vehicle explodes in motel parking lot Second Douglas Walker & Jordan Kartholl The Star Press Full confession by bloody killer First Ken de la Bastide & Stu Hirsch The Herald Bulletin Tragedy on Ice Division 6 First Kokomo Tribune Suzannah Couch, Sara Clifford & Staff A blessing and a burden Third Brown County Democrat Joseph S. Pete Addicted & Dying series Division 6 The Times (Munster) Two children die, one rescued in fire. Division 3 Third Mark Alesia Second Third The Indianapolis Star Doug Ross Lance Gideon Are America’s surgery centers safe? The Times (Munster) The Reporter Times Bombing Case Led to Child Porn Pattern of ‘noncompliance’ Second Charges Ashley Sloboda, Matthew LeBlanc Second & Sherry Slater First Wesley Dehne The Journal Gazette Staff The Rochester Sentinel Special Education Project-8 stories South Bend Tribune Wind Farm Coverage South Bend Flooding First First Tim Evans & Ryan Martin Zach Spicer The Indianapolis Star Category: 02 The Tribune (Seymour) Witness intimidation Best News Coverage With No “Second chances” Deadline Pressure Division 4 Category: 03 Division 1 Best Ongoing News Coverage Third Third Aprile Rickert Division 1 Justin Kiel The News and Tribune The Regional News (LaCrosse) SAVING GRACE: Defibrillators in Third The Great Flood of 2018 schools ‘critically important’ Debbie Blank & Diane Raver The Herald-Tribune Second Second Hurricanes’ impacts on Hoosiers Sara Nahrwold Annie Goeller Hendricks County Flyer Daily Journal Second BEMS students alleging sexual as- A State of Confusion Chelsea Boulrisse saults by classmate The Greater Fort Wayne Business First Weekly First Caitlin VanOverberghe Medical Marijuana Millicent Martin Emery Daily Reporter Western Wayne News Mourning a hero First Opioid Epidemic Staff Division 5 The Greater Fort Wayne Business Division 2 Weekly Third Electric Works Third George Myers Kate Wehlann Kokomo Tribune The Salem Leader ‘This is wrong’ Deaton Sentenced to 1,095 Days for Fatality Second Douglas Walker & Keith Roysdon Second The Star Press Sara Clifford Cold Case: Muncie Brown County Democrat Child support court First George Myers Division 2 Division 5 Division 2 Third Third Third Sara Clifford and Suzannah Couch Staff Kate Wehlann Brown County Democrat The Republic The Salem Leader Maple Leaf Performing Arts Center Death of Sgt. Hunter Second Second Second Joe Awad Stephanie Taylor Ferriell Rebecca R. Bibbs The Journal-Press (Aurora) The Salem Leader The Herald Bulletin Classes for inmates Elwood police controversy First Bryce Mayer First First The North Vernon Sun Staff Kirk Johannesen & Mark Webber Brown County Democrat The Republic Division 3 #DoSomething Children Removed Third Division 3 Division 6 Staff The Herald Republican (Angola) Third Third Amy Oberlin Staff Second The Herald Republican (Angola) The Indianapolis Star Dave Kurtz Steuben County Antibullying Com- Dr. Larry Nassar and USA Gymnastics The Star (Auburn) mittee Second First Second Staff Jack Ronald Jeff Jones The Indianapolis Star The Commercial Review The Star (Auburn) Fatal shooting of an unarmed black Downtown Butler fire man Division 4 First First Third Dave Kurtz, Kathryn Bassett Jeff Parrott Sarah Einselen & Mark Murdock South Bend Tribune Pharos-Tribune The Star (Auburn) Transpo CEO fired Eckhart Public Library arson fire Second Jason Thomas The News and Tribune Division 4 Category: 04 Best General Commentary First Third Kevin Burkett Staff Division 1 Pharos-Tribune Daily Reporter Hospital hack Third Chandra L. Mattingly Second The Rising Sun Recorder & The Ohio Danielle Grady & Aprile Rickert County News The News and Tribune Jeffboat closes Second Debbie Blank The Herald-Tribune First Annie Goeller First Daily Journal Janice Barniak Jail overcrowding South Gibson Star-Times Division 5 First First Stuart Cassidy Karen Francisco Third Perry County News The Journal Gazette Scott Underwood The Herald Bulletin Division 3 Category: 06 Second Third Best Business/Economic News Ken de la Bastide Dave Kurtz Coverage The Herald Bulletin The Star (Auburn) Division 1 First Second Harry McCawley Jack Ronald Third The Republic The Commercial Review Diane Raver The Herald-Tribune Division 6 First “Port would benefit Batesville Staff economy” Third The Tribune (Seymour) Doug Ross Second The Times (Munster) Division 4 Doug LeDuc The Greater Fort Wayne Business Second Second Weekly Marc Chase David Penticuff Techstars evaluates entrepreneurial The Times (Munster) Chronicle-Tribune ecosystem First First First Suzette Hackney Bob Bridge Linda Lipp The Indianapolis Star Times-Mail The Greater Fort Wayne Business Weekly Free speech Category: 05 Division 5 Best Editorial Writer Division 2 Third Division 1 Scott Underwood Third The Herald Bulletin Stuart Cassidy Second Perry County News Janice Barniak Second Business Model South Gibson Star-Times Max Jones Tribune-Star Second First Sara Clifford & Suzannah Couch Erik Deckers First Brown County Democrat The Times-Post Heather Bremer Broadband to Brown County The Herald Bulletin Division 2 First Division 6 Sara Clifford Third Brown County Democrat Bryce Mayer Third Living small in Brown County North Vernon Plain Dealer Alesia Redding South Bend Tribune Second Shannon Williams Second The Indianapolis Recorder Tim Harmon The Journal Gazette Division 3 Division 6 Division 2 Third Third Third Allie Kirkman Joseph S. Pete Denise Freitag Burdette The Commercial Review The Times (Munster) The Journal-Press (Aurora) Shopping around Strack & Van Til buys back company Get the scoop on turtle soup//What is a pergola? Take a seat and find Second Second out//Hueseman roadside no longer Ray Cooney Thomas B. Langhorne slippin’, slippin’ into the creek The Commercial Review Evansville Courier & Press 57 Turbines Mystery, confusion surround Second properties Denise Freitag Burdette First Dearborn County Register Mark Miller First If the key fits//Tow, tow, tow your The News-Banner Giles Bruce boat//Lifting himself up: Powerlifter Which way do we grow? The Times (Munster) breaks barriers Residents concerned that hospital Division 4 merger would limit health care First Staff Third Brown County Democrat Steve Garbacz Category: 07 Away games // Otterly successful // The News Sun Headline Writing Speaking in code What’s tax reform worth to you? Division 1 Division 3 Second Steve Garbacz Third Third The News Sun Sara Nahrwold Stephen Crane & Andrew Crowley Tax cut caveats Hendricks County Flyer The Reporter Times Flower Power: Random Acts of Flow- Grin and brrrr it//Soaring with the First ers marks one-year anniversary//Rock Eagles//Finger pickin’ good Mitchell Kirk on: fun, inspirational rocks being Pharos-Tribune found// Free falling: Eighty-year-old Second lives out bucket list dream Andrea Howe Wind turbines in Cass County Princeton Daily Clarion Second Cadence for Kaydence//Miles and Division 5 Linda Lipp Milestones//Pete can’t tweet The Greater Fort Wayne Business Third Weekly First Cody Neuenschwander, George The pain in the brain comes mainly Donna Cronk Myers & Carson Gerber from the strain//Metal man: Artists The Courier-Times Kokomo Tribune finds bread and butter in one-of-kind Fair weather for fowl show//4-Hers Tariffs hit Kokomo at its heart pieces// Elevated: Partnership to spur share hare-raising experiences//Sew- local entrepreneurs ing participants hope for the blues Second Kurt Christian First The Herald-Times Linda Lipp “A monumental undertaking” The Greater Fort Wayne Business Weekly First Food for thought: Restaurants seek Traci Miller recipe for success//Mixed-use mar- The Herald Bulletin vels//Area business celebrate Gound- Pet food pantry operating ‘illegally’ hog’s Day with various forecasts. Division 4 Second Division 3 Agnes Geiger & Fred Dodd Third South Bend Tribune Third Staff License, registration, saliva, please// Lindsay Owens Daily Journal Aluminum price hike may not can Washington Times-Herald What’s Left is Right//There Goes the brewers//Rising to the occasion When a Kennedy came to town Neighborhood//Shifting Sorrows First Second Second Staff Daniel Riordan Quiche Matchen Daily Journal The Times (Munster) Princeton Daily