Rural Texas farmer Cliff Etheredge saw an opportunity to cash in on a crop of the future that revived his dying town: wind power. View

Alvin Stamper defends his four-time tobacco-chopping title in Kentucky, cutting and spearing nearly 1,500 stalks per hour. By hand. (POYi winner) View

Chilling package of audio slideshows paints a grim commentary, in images and numbers, of poverty and inequity in Texas. View

In an award-winning audio slideshow, a family copes with a wife and mother's terminal cancer, prepares for life without her, and deals with the impact of her death. View

Award-winning six-chapter audio black-and-white slideshow follows a young mother's three-year struggle with drugs. View

Hundreds of thousands cross the 753-mile border that separates Mexico from Guatemala and Belize, to begin a life-threatening 1,500-mile odyssey to the U.S. View

Loaded down with 100 pounds of gear in 126-degree heat, U.S. Marines fight their way through Helmand Province. (NPR) View

The Best Videojournalism Stories of 2009 ... Celebrating excellence in video, journalism and storytelling. View

Ambitious multi-faceted series tackles issues affecting the rapidly growing elderly population ... and who will care for them. (Roanoke Times) View

Intimate look at the harsh reality of the AIDS pandemic in Africa reminds us how tenuous our connection is to each other. View

After a photographer makes a soldier's face an emblem of the Iraq war, the image changes both of their lives and connects them in ways neither imagined. View

Award-winning in-depth video coverage of the long rehabilitation process for a soldier who suffered severe brain trauma from a bomb in Iraq. View