George Deukmejian, a perennially popular two-term Republican governor of California who built his career on fighting crime, hardening the state’s criminal-justice stance and shoring up its leaky ...

George Deukmejian, the tight-fisted, tough-on-crime governor who had a calming influence on California politics in the 1980s, died Tuesday at his home in Long Beach, his family announced.

George Deukmejian, a two-term Republican governor of California who championed low taxes and small government but crossed party lines to sign a ban on military-style assault weapons, died May 8 at ...

Reporting from Sacramento — George Deukmejian was a role model for the type of officeholder we desperately need in today’s hyperventilated, polarized politics. He was a quiet leader who didn ...

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — Two-term California Gov. George Deukmejian, whose anti-spending credo earned him the nickname “The Iron Duke,” died Tuesday of natural causes. He was 89. The Republican ...

George Deukmejian, the properly revered former two-term governor of California, died May 8 at his home in Long Beach. He was 89 years old. We offer our condolences to Deukmejian’s family and ...

George Deukmejian, a former legislator who had been elected attorney general two years earlier as well, stood a few feet from the Curb entourage, chatting with me and one or two other reporters.

Long Beach’s favorite son, former Gov. George Deukmejian, had a decades-long love affair with his adopted city which started when he opened his one-man attorney’s office in Belmont Shore in 1955.

LONG BEACH, Calif. -- Former California Gov. George Deukmejian has died at age 89, his family confirmed Tuesday. Deukmejian, a Republican, served as the 35th governor of California from 1983 to 1991.

George Deukmejian, the tight-fisted, tough-on-crime governor who had a calming influence on California politics in the 1980s, died Tuesday at his home in Long Beach, his family announced.