We know it can be hard to keep up with everything that’s going on in the world, the country and your community. So here are five stories from the past week that you may have missed but really shouldn’t.

1. An officer tased him 31 times. Does that sound like an accident?

The most popular story on our site this week is about Daniel Humphreys. He was fleeing from California Highway Patrol in 2008 when he crashed his motorcycle and stumbled away on foot. The CHP officer eventually caught up to him and fired his Taser at him 31 times, killing him.

And yet, his death was ruled an accident by San Joaquin County Sheriff Steve Moore, even after the county's world-renowned forensic pathologist Dr. Bennet Omalu said it should be ruled a homicide. Omalu, who resigned last week, said the Humphreys' case is part of a pattern of Sheriff Moore using his influence to protect law enforcement officers.

2. 'This offers hope to our tribe': Native Americans granted rights to sacred mountain

In an unprecedented move, a Peninsula parks agency voted this week to grant local Native American tribes property rights to the summit of Mount Umunhum south of San Jose. The site has been a sacred spot for many tribes for millennia, long before Europeans arrived and long, long before rising costs in Silicon Valley pushed many surviving tribes out of the area.

3. Salt's colorful history in the Bay Area

Fun facts about salt and the Bay Area:

• It takes three years and 1,000 gallons of water from San Francisco Bay to produce just one pound of salt.
• The "salt ponds" you see when you fly into Bay Area airports are actually called "crystallizer beds."
• Only three percent of the salt from those beds ends up as table salt. The rest is used for everything from pharmaceuticals to food production to water treatment and road salt.

There's a lot more to learn about the Bay Area and it's special relationship with salt in this week's Bay Curious.

4. 'He was a beautiful, lovely man.' A city remembers Mayor Ed Lee

San Francisco has spent the week remembering Mayor Ed Lee, who died suddenly on Tuesday of an apparent heart attack. He was 65.

• Nancy Pelosi, San Francisco Congresswoman and House Minority Leader: "He was a beautiful, lovely man. He never had an unkind word to say about anyone, and nobody had an unkind word to say about him.”
• London Breed, Acting Mayor: "Ed was not a politician. He did not always deliver the best sound bite. He was humble and determined. No matter the job he held, he was fair and collaborative."
• Jean Quan, former mayor of Oakland and -- along with Lee -- one of the first Asian-American mayors a major U.S. city: "We spent a lot of time trying to represent and raise the profile of Asian-Americans. Today, there are a lot of Asian-Americans running for a lot of things.”
• Brianna Lee, daughter of Ed Lee: "He always had a sense of humor, I guess, is the big thing that people know him by. Sort of a cheesy goofball humor, I guess the way that most dads do."

5. Net neutrality is history. That could be bad news for Bay Area artists.

A lot of people aren't too pleased with the Federal Communications Commission decision to end so-called net neutrality this week. We've heard a lot about how this could affect companies, but what might happen to small Bay Area artists if Internet providers can force companies to pay for faster service?

“The landscape could change to the point where we may have to pay to get our content out there at the speeds that our audience wants,” says Matt Werner, founder of Thizzler on the Roof, a Bay Area hip-hop media company based in Oakland. “And that would really suck.”

Before you go...

San Mateo Congresswoman Jackie Speier says the "rumor on the Hill" is that President Donald Trump will fire Special Counsel Robert Mueller on Dec. 22. The White House denies the claim.