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- Your weekend ICYMI: Jessica Williams, who was fatally shot by an SFPD sergeant last week, might have been pregnant; Facebook's Trending Topics was a fledgling, ill-managed group; two people were shot in North Beach; and here's video of a Bay Area soldier reuniting with a dog he saved from Iraq.
- Your Saturday and Sunday links.
- A northbound Caltrain hit and killed a person on the tracks near Burlingame on Monday morning, creating major delays on the transit system. [SF Chronicle] [ABC 7] [Bay City News]
- Oakland parolee is busted for sneaking around Sausalito homes. [Bay City News]
- Closing arguments are scheduled today in the landmark legal case between Oracle and Google. Here's what's at stake. [Wired]
- [Cnet] contributor argues against the use of iPhone cases, asks "Are people entirely incapable of buying a well-designed object and treating it with enough care not to turn it into the gadget version of a bouncy castle?"
- Company files lawsuit claiming that that 20 specific models of Apple's iPhones and iPads infringe on various claims of their patents in respect to cameras, call blocking, FaceTime calling and more. [Patently Apple]
- A former CIA contractor who helped fight off terrorists in Benghazi four years ago was in the Bay Area on Sunday. [ABC 7]
- Alexander G. “Alex” Tarics, who had been the oldest living Olympic champion since 2007, died Saturday at the age of 102 at his home in Belvedere. [SF Chronicle]
- Scientists at Lawrence Livermore are trying to save us all from a Deep Impact. [CBS 5]
- Family and friends of three men shot by police officers visited the sites of the shootings in a Sunday morning procession they dubbed the “River of Sorrows.” [Mission Local]
- The surviving co-founder of San Francisco staple Mitchell’s Ice Cream, Larry Mitchell, died May 12, his family announced Saturday. [SF Examiner]
- Days after controversial police chief Greg Suhr was fired from his post, the activists who staged a hunger strike to oust him were honored at a food-laden community celebration. [NBC Bay Area]
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