Submitted by Fox First at Ten on October 9th
ATLANTA (AP) - Dick Pettys, a longtime political reporter for The Associated Press, has died. He was 66.
Matt Towery is CEO of InsiderAdvantage Georgia and a former boss of Pettys. Towery says he was told of Pettys' death by his son Richard Pettys Jr. Towery says Pettys died Monday after having a massive heart attack at the home where he retired in North Georgia.
Pettys was a fixture at the Georgia state Capitol for more than three decades. An insider with a reputation for evenhanded reporting, Pettys had the ear of everyone from governors and house speakers to low-level clerks under the Gold Dome.
Pettys worked at the AP from 1970 to 2005. After retiring, he went to work for Towery.
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