In The News: City Housing Report, Insider-Trading Sentencing and Robbery at In-N-Out

A lot happens in Mountain View. A lot. After all, the city of approximately 75,000 people increases to more than 100,000 in the daytime, when people come from other Bay Area cities to work.

Mountain View's second-draft Housing Element, a state-mandated study of the city's residents, will soon head to the for approval. The study shows that more people live in multi-family dwellings than single-family homes, the city's population growth is the slowest in the county, and 20 percent of the city's residents are younger than 18, the San Jose Mercury News reported.

Winifred Jiau, a former consultant with Mountain View-based charged with conspiracy and securities fraud, has been sentenced to serve four years in prison for her involvement in the national insider-trading scandal linked to Galleon Trading. According to Bloomberg News, Primary Global executive James Fleishman has been convicted of two counts of conspiracy and awaits sentencing. A Taiwan-based company liaison, Don Chu got two-years of probation.

Thanks to Google, students at and Los Altos high schools will get 200 laptops to use. The Mountain View Voice reports that the IBM Thinkpads would be made available for students to borrow for academic use, while some would be used in classrooms.

Customers at the on Rengstorff Avenue will never forget how on Sept. 15 at 8:35 p.m., a man walked in with a handgun and robbed the popular hamburger joint. The robber fled the scene with less than $1,000. The Mountain View Police Department is checking the video footage in an attempt to identify the robber, reports the Mountain View Voice.