LAKE BUENA VISTA, Fla. — Results from 2012 APSE contest judging held at the Doubletree Lake Buena Vista Hotel. Category: Breaking news under 30,000.

Listed in alphabetical order by name of newspaper. Final top 5 and honorable mention to be announced.

Anna Grearson, The Barre-Montpelier (Vt.) Times Argus
Ben Frederickson, Casper (Wyo.) Star-Tribune
Brendan Meyer, Shaina Cavazos, Zach Murdock, MIke Vorel, Jacob Kim and Eric Short, Columbia Missourian
Steve Nitz, Daily Chronicle DeKalb (Ill.)
Neil Warner, Daily Herald (Provo, Utah)
Kalle Oakes, Sun Journal (Lewiston, Maine)
Tim Trower, Mail Tribune (Medford, Ore.)
Mike Szvetitz, Opelika-Auburn (Ala.)
Julie Jag and Jim Seimas, Santa Cruz (Calif.) Sentinel
Andrew Carroll and Jason Morton, The Tuscaloosa (Ala.) News