Fred Haney News Today

Firefighters are on scene of a fire in Dayton.

Buster Logan is a figment in the imagination of Rio Rancho author Don Shearer, whose new book “The Ballpark Buster” has just been published.

In mid-20th century Southern California, the place to see and be seen was the Brown Derby restaurant. The Derby had various locations in the greater Los Angeles area, but the most famous was on North Vine Street where, as legend has it, Clark Gable proposed to Carole Lombard, and where the non-alcoholic Shirley Temple drink was first served. Other familiar Hollywood icons who dined at the Hat were John Wayne, Bing Crosby, Rita Hayworth, Frank Sinatra and Betty Grable. Partners Bob Cobb and Herb...