Larry Bingham, a Sun staff writer, has won first place for general feature writing in the 14th annual Excellence-in-Writing Competition sponsored by the American Association of Sunday and Feature Editors.

Bingham won for "The Farmer's Wife," an Oct. 21 profile of Terri Wolf, an Eastern Shore woman widowed by a fire that destroyed her family home. It was the second consecutive year Bingham has won first place in the category for newspapers of more than 300,000 circulation. The award carries a $1,000 cash prize.

Judging by editors from across the country took place June 7-8 at the University of Maryland, College Park, where AASFE is based.

The award is to be presented at the association's national convention Oct. 15-18 in Las Vegas.