La Voz, De Anza College’s weekly student newspaper, was honored for general excellence in two categories - for its newspaper and for its online publication - at this year’s Journalism Association of Community Colleges statewide convention held in Sacramento April 7-9.

The La Voz staff also won the following awards:

• Second-place on-the-spot sports photo, Steven Cabana, Milpitas

• Third-place investigative news, Jonathan Edwards, Berkeley

• Third-place editorial, La Voz staff

• Fourth-place on-the-spot editorial cartoon, Pedro Paulo Viegas De Sa, East Palo Alto

• Fourth-place sports action photo, Cabana

• Fourth-place online photo, Thu Di Ha, Fremont

• Honorable mention front-page design, Julio Lara, Oakland

• Honorable mention editorial cartoon, De Sa

• Honorable mention investigative news, Edwards

• Honorable mention sports profile, Lara

• Honorable mention online photo, Cabana

• Honorable mention on-the-spot copy editing, Sarah Gahan, Los Gatos

• Honorable mention on-the-spot news photo, Cabana

• Honorable mention on-the-spot team feature, Gahan and Marjan Sadough, Cupertino

• Honorable mention bring-in photo illustration, Erica Lamont, Cupertino