AP reporter Hugh Mulligan dies at 83
kellya | 11/28/2008
Hugh Mulligan, who in a half-century with The Associated Press covered everyone from presidents and popes to astronauts and combat soldiers, reporting the news in eloquently crafted, fact-packed dispatches laced with wry humor and humanistic touches, died Wednesday. He was 83.
Mulligan died at Danbury Hospital, his brother John Mulligan said. Hugh Mulligan, a Ridgefield resident, had been diagnosed recently with pancreatic cancer, according to his family.







