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 ...

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 ...

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. He was ...

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 ...

Offhandedly, without prompting, Deukmejian mentioned that he was setting up an “exploratory committee” for governor. It was classic Deukmejian – no flashy, contrived media event, just a ...

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.

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 governor of California who more than doubled the size of the prison system in the U.S.’s most populous state during his two terms in office during the 1980s, has died. He ...

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. He was ...