- 1st Place, Domestic News
- Justin Maxon/AP
Beta Lane grieves in front of a house destroyed by a fire that killed three people, including her cousin, Edward Lane, 28, in Chester, PA, Monday, July 7, 2008. According to Delaware County authorities, Shanae Bailey, 23, along with her three-year-old daughter, Anaija Bailey, were in the house when the fire started. Edward Lane was away and rushed back to the scene to rescue them, but was unsuccessful and all three perished. Community members’ claim the fire started after an unidentified person threw a Molotov cocktail into the living room of the home.
- 1st
- Justin Maxon
- AP
- 2nd
- William Wilson Lewis III
- The Press-Enterprise
- 3rd
- Andrea Bruce
- The Washington Post
- HM
- Mike Kepka
- San Francisco Chronicle
- HM
- Nathaniel Brooks
- The New York Times
- HM
- Michael DeMocker
- The Times-Picayune
- HM
- Logan Mock-Bunting
- Freelance
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