2011 News Picture Story
First Place - T.J. Kirkpatrick/Freelance
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The Tea Party movement claims no leaders and no affiliations. It stems from a feeling of urgency shared by citizens across the political spectrum, but draws in those who see answers in conservative philosophy. The movement seems to move in different directions at once: some groups are more conservative than others, some more active, and mostly all operate on the local level. One group is hardly symbolic of the whole. Elements of the Tea Party movement are mobilizing for the coming political battle. While the effect of their efforts remains to be seen, the efforts alone should be alarming to liberals watching from the sidelines..Workers inflate a blow-up Independence Hall at the Tea Party Patriots' 'American Policy Summit' at the Phoenix Convention Center in Phoenix, Ariz. on Feb. 25, 2011.
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Newt Gingrich, GOP presidential hopeful and former speaker of the house, waits to appear on the Mike Huckabee show after speaking at a Tea Party Bus Tour stop at a Pizza Ranch restaurant in Indianola, Iowa, as a patron picks through fried chicken in the buffet on June 25, 2011. Gingrich said during the speech that "I'll be responsible, but I won't be reasonable," adding that he wants to be what he called "the paycheck president" instead of, as he characterized President Obama, "the food stamp president."
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The Tea Party Patriots' hold their 'American Policy Summit' at the Phoenix Convention Center in Phoenix, Ariz. on Feb. 26, 2011..Photo by T.J. Kirkpatrick
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Attendees listen to a speaker during the opening ceremony of the Tea Party Patriots' 'American Policy Summit' at the Phoenix Convention Center in Phoenix, Ariz. on Feb. 25, 2011..Photo by T.J. Kirkpatrick
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Congressman Ron Paul (R-TX) reaches out to shake a supporters' hand during a book signing at the Tea Party Patriots' 'American Policy Summit' at the Phoenix Convention Center in Phoenix, Ariz. on Feb. 26, 2011..Photo by T.J. Kirkpatrick
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William Owens, left, publisher of Tea Party Review magazine, interviews Jeff Bell, policy director for Gold Standard 2012, a wing of American Principles in Action, during a Tea Party Bus Tour stop at the Quad City Air Show in Davenport, Iowa on June 18, 2011.
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David Owens, at left, production assistant with the Tea Party Review magazine, naps while Dina Espenscheid, public relations officer for the Tea Party Review magazine, watches a sunset after leaving a Tea Party Bus Tour stop in Fort Dodge, Iowa on June 23, 2011.
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Jeff Bell, policy director for Gold Standard 2012, a wing of American Principles in Action, speaks during a Tea Party Bus Tour stop as an Amish horse and carriage rides by the community center in Lamoni, Iowa on June 25, 2011.
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Christopher Doss, right, a grassroots training coordinator for the Leadership Institute, leads a training session as William Owens, center, publisher of Tea Party Review magazine, works in the background during a Tea Party Bus Tour stop at the Adams Street Espresso & Soda Shoppe in Creston, Iowa on June 21, 2011.
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Iowa Tea Party members and sponsors set up for a round table discussion with local residents and supporters at the Pizza Ranch restaurant in Mason City, Iowa on June 16, 2011.
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Rayann Collins, of Winterset, Iowa, center, with her daughter Abby, 5, watch Rick Santorum, GOP presidential hopeful and former Pennsylvania senator, talk with members of the media during a Tea Party Bus Tour stop at the Adams Street Espresso & Soda Shoppe in Creston, Iowa on June 21, 2011.
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Gary Marx, a deputy to Ralph Reed in the 2004 Bush campaign and Mitt Romney's conservative outreach director in 2008, speaks in on a session about building a campaign during the Tea Party Patriots' 'American Policy Summit' at the Phoenix Convention Center in Phoenix, Ariz. on Feb. 25, 2011..Photo by T.J. Kirkpatrick
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Jeff Bell, left, policy director for Gold Standard 2012, a wing of American Principles in Action, and Dina Espenscheid, right, public relations officer for the Tea Party Review magazine, wait in the back of the room during a Tea Party Bus Tour stop at the Webster County GOP headquarters in Fort Dodge, Iowa on June 23, 2011.
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David Owens, production assistant with the Tea Party Review magazine, takes down an american flag that was set up for a Tea Party Bus Tour stop at the Seuss Room of the Cedar Rapids Public Library at Westdale Mall in Cedar Rapids, Iowa on June 17, 2011.
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Second Place - Carlos Barria/Reuters
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Family members of victims of the earthquake and tsunami stand next a coffin at a mass funeral in Kassenuma town, Miyagi prefecture. Tsunami
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Residents look for missing people after a tsunami at an identification center in Otsuchi town, Iwate Prefecture March 24, 2011. Tsunami
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A man walks on a seawall in an area destroyed by the earthquake and tsunami, in Taro town, March 29, 2011. Tsunami
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A dead fish is seen in an area destroyed by the tsunami in Minamisanriku town. TSUNAMI
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A woman sits with her belongs at a relief center in Minamisanriku town, Miyagi prefecture, March 22, 2011. TSUNAMI
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The Kyotoku-maru fishing trawler is seen in Kesennuma town after the tsunami Miyagi Prefecture. TSUNAMI
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A man walks next a vehicle destroyed by the tsunami in Kessenuma town. TSUNAMI
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Family members of victims of the tsunami attend a mass funeral in Kassenuma town.TSUNAMI
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Miwa Fujuwala feeds her son Hiroto at an evacuation center for victims tsunami in Otsuchi. TSUNAMI
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A bulldozer works to repair a damaged seawall after the tsunami. TSUNAMI
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Children attend a graduation ceremony at Ashinome kindergarten, One pupil from the school have been reported missing after the disaster. TSUNAMI
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A page of a yearbook is seen among the debris at an area destroyed the tsunami in Kesennuma town.TSUNAMI
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Third Place - Michael Holahan/The Augusta Chronicle
Third Place - 2011 News Picture Story
SUMMARY: This year millions of families are expected to see their homes enter foreclosure. This is the stoy one such family. Hayward Hancock and his wife, Cindy Hooper, met in high school. Many years later Cindy lost her job and the family missed some mortgage payments before they began to regain their financial footing. But it was too late. Their mortgage company had already foreclosed. They turned to a mortgage modification company, Apply 2 Save, to help negotiate with their mortgage company and bring their payments up to date. Apply 2 Save soon filed for bankruptcy, taking $14,000 of the familiy's money with them. Now, in a last ditch effort to save their home, Hayward is working two jobs and they're scrambling to raise enough money to satisfy the mortgage company. But it's an uphill battle and the clock isn't on their side. "We're going to go down fighting," Mr. Hancock says. To save their home, the couple decides to sell as many of their belongings as they can in an endless garage sale. But the mortgage company has other ideas and Hayward and Cindy soon find circumstances turning against them. In this photo, soon after their home enters forclosure, Hayward Hancock, right, and his wife, Cindy Hooper decide to sell as many of their belongings as they can in a 7 day-a-week garage sale. Here they talk about selling the painting at right that they think may be valuable.
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Hayward Hancock helps a woman pick out some sheets to buy as is family holds a 7 day-a-week garage sale October 16, 2010. The sale is held near the furniture store where Mr. Hancock is employed. As word of the family's plight spread, people began seeking out the yard sale and offing to help out. "One woman bought a 75-cent ball of yarn and handed me a $100 bill," Mrs. Hooper said. "It's amazing the kindness we've seen."
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A worried Hayward Hancock holds an eviction notice he found nailed to his front door in early December. It was from the Aiken County Sherriff's Office. The notice said he and his family and all their possesions had to be out of the house by December 16. Mr. Hancock was actively seeking to stop the eviction by raising money, consulting an attorney and was even looking into declaring backruptcy to save his home, but, circumstances would soon over take him.
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The eviction notice said the family had to be out of the house on December 16th. But early on the morning of Decmeber 8th, the family awakens to a Sheriff's deputy at their front door and a group of repo men in their front yard. The deputy says the home is being reposessed and they had to leave immediately. Mr. Hancock tells the deputy that the eviction notice says they have unit the 16th of December. After some discussion and a few phone calls the deputy says that the date on the eviction notice is a mistake. The actual date is today. The deputy calls the mortgage company and asks them to honor the date on eviction notice - December 16th. The mortgage company refuses to give the family any more time. They have to have all their possesions out of their 2,500 sq. ft.double-wide mobile home within four hours. The family is completely unprepared. In this photo, Mr. Hancock and his father, right, speak to the repo man, second from left, and a sheriff's deputy, left.
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Hayward Hancock talks to his wife, Cindy Hooper, who runs out the door to talk to the repo man as the family scrambles to get their possesion out of the house and onto their front lawn before their double-wide mobile home is hauled away.
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While repo men work outside to prepare haul away his home, a frantic Hayward Hancock grabs as many of his belongings as he can and drop them in the front yard.
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Cindy Hooper scrambles to clear out her bathroom in time before her home is hauled away. The family has just four hours to remove all their belongings. "No Place Like Home"
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Still dressed in her pajamas, Cindy Hooper talks with the repo man, right, after he agrees to let the family stay until 9:30 the next morning. The time extension is not an act of mercy. The repo men are having a difficult time preparing the family's large double-wide mobile home for transport.
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After a frenzied four hours of frantically trying to get all her posession out of the house an onto the front yard, an exhaused Cindy Hooper collapses to the floor to catch her breath. The repo man agreed to let the family stay until 9:30 the next morning. The time extension is not an act of mercy. The repo men are having a difficult time preparing the family's large double-wide mobile home for transport. .
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The next morning, Hayward Hancock, right, and his son survey their belongings strewn around the front yard as the repo men return to complete the job of taking their away their double-wide mobile home.
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Exhausted from a frenzied 24 hours of hauling belongings out of their home, Cindy Hooper and her husband Hayward Hancock watch as workers begin to pull their double-wide mobile home out the long driveway from their wooded lot.
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After the repo men completed their work, Hayward Hancock and his family were left with a patch of bare earth where their home once stood. "NO PLACE LIKE HOME"
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Honorable Mention - Mike Kane/Freelance
Honorable Mention - 2011 News Picture Story
Once considered a big city problem, Latino gangs are taking root in rural America, finding fertile ground amid wide-open spaces and deepening poverty..
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Malo, a veteran member of the Quincy, Washington gang .Marijuanos, shows his tattoo, the number 13, representing the letter M, the 13th letter of the alphabet, for the Mexican Mafia, at a party in Quincy in December, 2009. Malo was recently incarcerated on felony weapons charges..
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Fatal, a Sureño gang member from San Diego, walks across a field to the fence on which he and other gang members spray painted gang tags the night before, near his house in Moses Lake, Washington, in January 2010. Fatal's parents moved from California to Washington in large part to get away from the gang influence. Within 3 month's of their arrival however, Fatal was already getting back involved with gangs.
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Grinch, the 29-year-old leader of the Sureño gang Marijuanos, pretends to shoot a pistol while rapping during a party in Quincy, Washington, in January 2010. Like many members of the Marijuanos, Grinch is a devoted rapper with visions of success in the music industry.
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Creeper, a member of the Sureño gang Marijuanos, smokes a cigarette while looking out from a tree fort in the backyard of a childhood friend's house in Moses Lake, Washington, in December 2009. Creeper has been kicked out of his parents' home due to his gang involvement and has been staying wherever he can, often with friends and other gang members.
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Creeper, a member of the Sureño gang Marijuanos, holds his .girlfriend's daughter, in Moses Lake, Washington, in January 2010. Creeper, now 18, has recently been kicked out of his parents' home for his gang involvement and is hoping to move into an apartment with his girlfriend.
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Creeper, a Sureño gang member staying in a house occupied by several gang-affiliated young adults, is confronted by his father and brother about his gang-envolvement in Moses Lake, Washington, in January, 2011.
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Spooky, a member of the Sureño gang Marijuanos, aims a .22 rifle at a house shared by several gang members in Moses Lake, Washington, in October 2010. The gun is usually kept locked up with the marijuana that they sell out of the the house.
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Gang members affiliated to the Sureño gang Marijuanos walk behind houses where they spay-painted graffiti in May, 2010.
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Creeper and Fatal are denied entrance into the home of a friend and fellow gang member by the friend's mother in Moses Lake, Washington in January 2010.
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Jaime and Chivo shadow box in a parking lot in Quincy, Washington, in January 2010. Jaime, though not yet a full member the Marijuanos gang, was recently jumped by a group of Norteño enemies.
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Chivo, a Sureño, watches a fellow gangster tag the wall of a tree fort in Moses Lake, Washington, in January 2010. Chivo grew up in Los Angeles and moved to Grant County when he was 8. During his first year in Moses Lake, Chivo and 3 of his gang-affiliated, teenage uncles executed a group of bound and gagged Norteños (rival gang members), the memory of which Chivo says he wishes he could forget.
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Honorable Mention - Ty Wright/Ohio University
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Jade, a working girl at the Stardust Ranch in Ely, Nevada, stands in the road outde of the brothel on a cool night.
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Jade, a working girl at the Stardust Ranch in Ely, Nevada, is firmly gripped by a customer outside in the parking lot of the brothel. Jade has been a prostitue working a various brothels in Nevada for the last eight years.
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Jade sits with her friend Katie, another working girl at the Stardust Ranch, at the bar and turns toeard the entrance as a patron enters the bar area.
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Jade, who also goes by Stormy, applies her make up in the mirror in her room before starting her work day at the Stardust Ranch.
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Bartender Stan Bowditch grips the breast of Jade in the Big Four Ranch, the brothel across the street where she formerly worked.
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Kitchen timers with names of the working girls at the Stardust Ranch sit in the kitchen area at the Stardust Ranch. The timers are utilized to keep track of the time a girl spends with a client in their room.
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Jade has a sexual encounter with Justin Barragan on one of the pool tables at The Rio Club on a night out in Ely, Nevada. Jade rarley leaves the brothel due to Nevada's strict health regulations on prostitution.
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Jade spends a minute on the phone with her mother in her room at the Stardust Ranch. Jade lives with her mother, brother and son in Orange County, California.
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Jade sits on the couch beside Rob Kinterknecht in the bar of the Stardust Ranch. Some nights she said the lifestyle is a bit much to handle and doesn't feel like working.
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After a long night of work at the Stardust Ranch Jade walks back to her room for the night.
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A local bar patron, known as Brett, sits with Jade at the bar as she takes a shot at the Stardust Ranch.
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In the early hours of the morning, after a full days work, Jade lies on her bed at the Stardust Ranch with a beer and a cigarette.
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