NEW ORLEANS — Mary Foster, a veteran Associated Press reporter who wrote about everything from New Orleans' love affair with food, Mardi Gras and Saints football to Hurricane Katrina, died Monday. She was 68.Foster died at her New Orleans home from complications of cancer that was diagnosed earlier this year, according to her sister, Rosalie Foster. She had returned home on Friday after receiving treatment in Little Rock, Arkansas."Mary lived a large life and her work was infused with her love of Louisiana's people and their stories," said Kathleen Carroll, the AP's executive editor. "The stars over New Orleans are dimmer now that she is gone."Foster joined the AP's New Orleans bureau in 1988 after working at newspapers and for television and radio stations. Foster started covering Louisiana sports for AP in 1992 at a time when few female journalists were covering professional sports. A single mom, she often brought her two sons on assignment with her and put them to work helping to gather quotes at New Orleans Saints and LSU games.Her youngest son, Frankie Klug, said the Saints once handed out small towels for players to wear around their waists when his mother entered the locker room. She kept one of the "Mary Foster towels" in a frame."It was kind of a joke, but she was proud of it," said Klug, of New Orleans.
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