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. He was ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

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 properly revered former two-term governor of California, died May 8 at his home in Long Beach. He was 89 years old.

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 ...

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 ...