The U.S. Department of Energy says high school and middle school teams from California have won its 2009 National Science Bowl. Officials said a team from Mira Loma High School in Sacramento defeated Lexington High School from Lexington, Mass., in the high school national championship match.

WASHINGTON, May 5 /PRNewswire/ -- The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) today announced that Santa Monica High School from Santa Monica, Calif. is the winner of the 2008 DOE National Science Bowl(R). Santa Monica High School beat Mira Loma High School from Sacramento, Calif.

By Carlos Alcala, The Sacramento Bee, Calif. Mar. 13--Gung-ho with cargo: The list of accomplished alumni of Carmichael's Winston Churchill Middle School includes a major league soccer star, a major league baseball star and a Harvard Medical School professor.

SACRAMENTO, Calif. _ So it's come to this: If your high school senior has the grades and the test scores _ and your annual family income is $100,000 or less _ it could be cheaper to send the kid to Stanford University next fall than to a community college.

By Dorothy Korber, The Sacramento Bee, Calif. Mar. 2--So it's come to this: If your high school senior has the grades and the test scores -- and your annual family income is $100,000 or less -- it could be cheaper to send the kid to Stanford University next fall than to a community college.