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First Place
Jahi Chikwendiu
The Washington Post
WASTING AWAY: THE STRUGGLES OF DC'S AIDS NONPROFITS
Just after 3a.m., on Oct. 3, 2009, the body of Eunice Minor is prepared to be taken away by a funeral home by Patty Wudel and Prascilla Norris, RN, at Joseph's House, an AIDS hospice in Washington, Norris and Patty Wudel, the house's executive director, were sharing the overnight shift while their normal overnight staff person recovers from an accident.
Second Place
Chip Somodevilla
Getty Images
UNTITLED
Witnesses and volunteers tear the door off a car that was involved in an automobile accident at the intersection of Alabama and Pennsylvania Avenues in southeast Washington, on Aug. 5, 2009. Four people were injured in the accident.
Third Place
Andrew Harnik
The Washington Examiner
H1N1 TREATMENT
A 15-year-old from northeast Washington waits on Oct. 27, 2009, with her mother in the emergency room after coming down with flu like symptoms. Patients with flu like symptoms and no health insurance are forced to wait hours in the emergency room to be treated.
Award of Excellence
Linda Davidson
The Washington Post
VIGIL
Ricky Hines comforts his wife Towanda Brown at a vigil on June 25, 2009, in Washington, for her daughter LaVonda "Nikki" King who was among nine people killed in a Metro train crash in Washington.
Award of Excellence
Andrew Harnik
The Washington Examiner
DADDY'S GIRL
Lauren Findley, 7, stands with a rubbing of her father, Sgt. Richard Findley's name off the wall of the Police Memorial in Washington, on April 21, 2009. Findley, with the Prince George's County Police department was killed in the line of duty in 2008 and his family was taking part in an engraving ceremony held for him and other officers killed in the line of duty at the Police Memorial.
Award of Excellence
Astrid Riecken
The Washington Times
SHOOTING
A police officer examines the crime scene at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, on June 11, 2009, after an 88-year-old gunman with a violent and virulently anti-Semitic past opened fire with a rifle, killing one security guard.
Award of Excellence
Melina Mara
The Washington Post
THE VUNERABLE ILLEGAL
El Salvadoran illegal immigrants, Ulises Martinez, his wife, Teresa Gaudalupe Escobar, and their son, Alexis, 20-months-old, are seen at their home in Falls Church, Va., Aug. 20, 2009. The family received a phone call in January from a group of human smugglers who claimed to have taken Teresa's parents hostage as they entered the United States. The smugglers made them pay. Martinez couldn't pay anymore, and in defiance, reluctantly and fearful they would be deported he called Immigration and Customs Enforcement for help. ICE recorded the calls and traced them to a house in Phoenix, where a raid ultimately rescued 21 immigrants, including Martinez's in-laws.
