2012 General News
First Place - 2012 General News
Chantel Blunk, wife of Jonathan Blunk, pauses on the tarmac at Denver Int. Airport as her husband's body is loaded into a plane bound for Reno, NV, where his full military funeral will take place. Blunk, a five-year U.S. Navy veteran, was killed during the July 20 shooting rampage at a movie theater in Aurora, CO.
RJ Sangosti / The Denver Post
Second Place - 2012 General News
Former Penn State assistant football coach Jerry Sandusky looks at the media as he leaves the courthouse in his child sex abuse trial.
Patrick Smith / Freelance
Third Place - 2012 General News
Myanmar's pro-democracy icon Aung San Suu Kyi is silhouetted against setting sun as she arrives to deliver her speech during an election campaign rally in Thongwa village some 50 kilometers (31 miles) from Yangon, Myanmar, "Campaign Silhouette"
Altaf Qadri / Associated Press
Honorable Mention - 2012 General News
Workers fill a pauper's grave with unclaimed remains from the county morgue `on January 18, 2012 in Homewood, Illinois. Thirty people were buried in this grave.
Scott Olson / Getty Images
Honorable Mention - 2012 General News
A Syrian rebel, sleeps after returning back from fighting against Syrian army forces in Aleppo, at a rebel headquarters in Marea on the outskirts of Aleppo city, Syria, Sunday, Aug. 26, 2012. "Fighting Break"
Muhammed Muheisen / Associated Press
Honorable Mention - 2012 Spot News
Farmer Harry Strohauer walks in his corn fields, Thursday, July 19, 2012, near Lasalle that are damaged from thousands of grasshoppers and drought. "Drought"
RJ Sangosti / The Denver Post