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vol . 3 , no. 20 : january 24-30, 2024 : losgatan.com
basketball updates p6 : upcoming events p11 : ny times crossword puzzle p13 : service directory p14 Courtesy of Flor de Maria
MAN ADMITS TO MURDERING WIFE AFTER NEW YEAR’S EVE FOOTAGE UNCOVERED
Some officials still struggling with State’s directives
Victim filed for divorce in 2020 but it was never finalized
Drew Penner, Reporter
Los Gatos continues to plod along in the revision of its Housing Element, holding hours of community meetings to workshop the critical housing document that has failed State scrutiny five times. Unlike the Scotts Valley Draft Housing Element which was rubber-stamped by its Planning Commission (after no residents spoke during public comment) and sent off to Council over on the other side of the Santa Cruz Mountains a
Drew Penner, Reporter
On New Year’s Eve in a cul-desac neighborhood on Los Gatos’ east side, 40-year-old Yingying “Dawn” Yu seemed aware there was a real possibility she could be murdered that night. And that’s exactly what her husband, John Maxey Yeager, 56, is accused of doing, in a twocount indictment filed by the Los Gatos-Monte Sereno Police Department in Santa Clara County Superior Court Jan. 16. “Help, help!” Yu shouted in a cry picked up by a security camera on the home of one of their Hershner Court neighbors, about two-and-a-half hours before the arrival of 2024. That’s according to a Statement of Facts prepared by detectives Michael Birley and Riley Frizzell. It notes the video shows her husband chasing her. “Both parties go off camera as Suspect Yeager closed the dis➝ Homicide, 10
TOWN BEGINS 2024 REWORK OF HOUSING ELEMENT
➝ Housing, 4
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