AltWeeklies Awards | News Writing

1st Place: Lethally Blonde by Rick Anderson , Seattle Weekly

2nd Place: Sarah Palin, Inc. by David S. Bernstein , Boston Phoenix

3rd Place: Getting Off by Mike Giglio , Houston Press

Honorable Mention: Exit Strategy by Carolyn Szczepanski , The Pitch

1st Place: Show Stoppers, Curdled Culture and Mayor Vows to Protect First Fridays by Chris Dovi , Style Weekly

2nd Place: A History of Violence by Sarah Kelley , LEO Weekly

3rd Place: Until Proven Guilty by Pamela White , Boulder Weekly

Honorable Mention: The House Thornburg Lost, Try, Try Again and Thornburglars by Corey Pein , Santa Fe Reporter

1st Place: The Barry Archives, Harriette Walters, and Fire Brass by Mike DeBonis , Washington City Paper

2nd Place: Local Activists Crusade to Cut Circumcisions, Hacking Pact, and Tapped Out by Chris Faraone , Boston Phoenix

3rd Place: The Valley's Galaxy of Goo, Wrinkles at Runkle Canyon, and Brentwood's Toxic Grave by Michael Collins , L.A. Weekly

1st Place: Regime Change, Fighting Fire, and The Association by Nicholas Deshais , The Inlander

2nd Place: The Wrong Man, Cleaning the Big House, and Late Aid by David Winkler-Schmit , Gambit

3rd Place: Watching Over Witnesses, Kentucky History X, and The Corn That Grew From Concrete by Phillip Bailey , LEO Weekly

Honorable Mention: Kennel No. 1, Ordinance Ignored, and Greyhound Runaround by Tim Vanderpool , Tucson Weekly

1st Place: Wild Rides by Paul Knight , Houston Press

2nd Place: Ten Pieces on Why it Would be a Disaster for Chicago to Host the 2016 Olympics by Ben Joravsky , Chicago Reader

3rd Place: Los Angeles on $300,000 a Year by Patrick Range McDonald, Tibby Rothman, Daniel Heimpl and Jill Stewart , L.A. Weekly

1st Place: Smell Test by Dan McGraw, Peter Gorman and Jeff Prince , Fort Worth Weekly

2nd Place: Two Lakes by Adam Lynch, Ward Schaefer, Todd Stauffer and Donna Ladd , Jackson Free Press

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