Left to right: Bill Malloska, the airplaneâ s owner; Augie Pedlar, pilot; Manley Lawling, navigator, later replaced by Vilas Knope; and Mildred Doran ... a memorial at San Francisco’s ...

Reporting from San Francisco — A majority of the oldest artifacts in the permanent collection of the Mexican Museum in San Francisco are either forgeries or not up to national museum standards ...

Last week, San Francisco’s Mexican Museum made national headlines for an unenviable reason: Researchers reported that 96 percent of the artifacts in its collection might be inauthentic.

"Shooting Star," the story of Mildred Doran, is available at amazon.com and from author Richard DuRose of Hendersonville, N.C. It details the life of Doran, one of Flint's most famous citizens ...