• Defense attorneys in the Ghost Ship fire trial are hoping testimony from their key witness, who claims to have heard a group of Latino men talking about arson, will be admissible. Sharon Evans testified without the jury present on Thursday, to see which of her statements will be admissible, and at least one of the victims' parents thinks she's lying. [Chronicle]
  • Four Bay Area women, the last surviving "Rosie the Riveters," traveled to Normandy this week for the D-Day anniversary. ABC 7 visited with one who stayed behind, 95-year-old Kay Morrison of Fairfield, who worked at the Kaiser shipyard in Richmond when she was 20 in 1944. [ABC 7]
  • BART says its increased police presence in stations has cut down on fare cheats. BART ticket sales are up in just a few short weeks, and police calls are down. [Chronicle]
  • A cute dog named Roofus ended up on the Muni tracks at Church Station Thursday morning, after getting spooked and slipping out of his collar on a morning walk. Service had to be halted for 20 minutes while a Muni worker retrieved the dog, and his owner was contacted by Animal Care & Control. [NBC Bay Area]
  • A Marin County bartender with a kooky horizontal beard recently took second place at an international beard and mustache competition. [Marin Independent Journal]
  • A 10-year-old boy from Menlo Park was the youngest app developer at Apple's WWDC this week. [ABC 7]
  • WeWork is opening a coding school in San Francisco. [Chronicle]