OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — Former Associated Press reporter Gaylord Shaw, who broke the news that President Richard Nixon would resign as evidence in the Watergate case mounted around him, has died. He was 73. Don Grantham Funeral Home in Duncan, Oklahoma, said Wednesday that Shaw died Sunday at his home. A cause of death was not released. While working in the AP’s White House bureau, Shaw covered the fall of one president and the rise of another, President Gerald Ford, who later pardoned Nixon. “Gaylord and I worked that story together, and then he worked the bulletin that went on the wire, and that was a pretty major one,” Walter Mears, former bureau chief for the AP’s Washington bureau and a longtime friend and colleague of Shaw’s, recalled from his home in North Carolina. “It was great that the AP had a guy you could rely on to deliver everything there was to deliver on a story like that.” Shaw later worked for the Los Angeles Times, where he won a Pulitzer Prize for national reporting in 1978, and for Newsday, where he shared a Pulitzer for spot reporting in 1997. He returned to his native Oklahoma after his retirement. Lou Boccardi, a former AP president, said Shaw had “a slow smile that got wider as he spun out details of a good story he was working on. He lived his work.”