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First Place
Craig F. Walker
The Denver Post

"WELCOME HOME: THE STORY OF SCOTT OSTROM

Second Place
Barbara Davidson
Los Angeles Times

"FAMINE IN THE HORN OF AFRICA"

Third Place
Aristide Economopoulos
The Star-Ledger

"A WEEK IN THE KILLING CYCLE"

Award of Excellence
Ross Taylor
The Virginian-Pilot

"THE THIN LINE"

Third Place
Aristide Economopoulos
The Star-Ledger


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"A WEEK IN THE KILLING CYCLE"

There's a new kind of killer on the street. Young men in their teens and early 20s, with no regard for life, not even their own, carrying automatic weapons used in warfare. Through the Essex County Homicide Task Force a week look at the nonstop Killing Cycle that is fueld by gangs and drug culture and the effort to stop it.

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Lt. John Zutic walks around the crime scene looking for evidence on S. 18th St. not far from the body of Al-Tariq Harris who was slain and 3 others wounded in a hail of gun fire with approximately 50 bullets being shot from two 9-mm handguns and a Romanian version of a AK-47 assault rifle.