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Police said Wednesday they have arrested a suspect in connection with a daring daytime heist that netted $65 million worth of jewelry from a prominent London diamond merchant last week.
Two well-dressed thieves walked into a London Bond Street jewelry store last week and, after brandishing handguns at shop workers, made off with $65 million worth of gems in one of Britain's biggest jewelry heists, police said Tuesday.
French police say Belgian authorities have detained and handed over a man accused of stealing jewels worth several million euros (dollars) from a luxury Paris jewelry house.
It's one of the oldest tricks in the playbook of scams. New York City police said three men stole $120,000 worth of jewelry at Grand Central Terminal by furtively switching a bag containing the jewels with an identical duffel.
As a slave laborer in Auschwitz, Meyer Hack was forced to sort through the tattered clothing stripped off inmates before they were sent to the gas chambers. He gathered valuable belongings hidden inside the clothes, stuffed them in a sock, hid them and later spirited them to freedom.
California regulators say they've found religious and children's jewelry with dangerously high lead levels at stores and warehouses.
Berkshire Hathaway Inc. says the chief executive of its Helzberg Diamond unit has resigned, but Warren Buffett's company did not say why.
Alison DeRuiter of Phoenix showed up at party recently and went home with $542.
At last, spring is on its way, and not a minute too soon! With it come visions of dining outside, leisurely strolls in the sun, and finally not having to wear clunky boots and snowman gear day in and day out. It’s enough to make you feel like a new person… a new person whose style also craves a spring awakening.
A luxurious gold, pearl and emerald earring provides a new visual clue about the life of the elite in Jerusalem some 2,000 years ago. And its discovery was a true eureka moment for excavators.
A raid on a suspected gang of international jewel thieves has recovered an uncut ruby known as the "Prince of Burma" worth 3.2 million euros ($4.1 million), Austrian authorities said Thursday.
This holiday season, women may be more likely to wind up with a partridge in a pear tree than five gold rings.
The million-dollar robberies occurred in the parking lots of jewelry stores, hotels and restaurants and took but a few terrifying seconds.
Two 17-year-old jewelry makers from Cape Cod, Massachusetts are hoping swarms of customers will want their latest creations: earrings and necklaces made from dead bugs.
Thieves broke into a jewelry company over the weekend and stole up to $2 million in gold, gems and other valuables, including Super Bowl rings made for New York Giants staff members, authorities said.
A California woman has filed a $5 million lawsuit against Knoxville-based Jewelry Television, accusing the home-shopping channel of false advertising.
We see them in ears, eyebrows, noses and tongues. They peek out provocatively from belly-baring shirts and cause us to wince when we encounter a bristling faceful at the local coffee shop. They’re body piercings, some visible, some not so much, and for the past few years they’ve been raising both eyebrows — and the occasional alarm.
Excavators of the earliest human settlement in Fiji have found a cache of jewelry and high quality pottery dating back some 3,000 years and made by the Stone Age colonizers of the South Pacific.
More than a half-million pieces of Chinese-made children's jewelry contaminated with lead are being recalled, it was announced Wednesday.
Ancient beads that may represent the oldest attempt by people at self-decoration have been identified from sites in Algeria and Israel.
Cash4Gold Absolutely Raking In The MoneyYou've probably seen ads on TV and the Internet for Florida-based Cash4Gold, a service that buys gold from people (watches, rings, other jewelry, etc.) via the mail. You send in your stuff, the company sends you money.
Moroccan shell beads point to dawn of modern human behaviourTiny shells had been pierced and strung into necklaces or jewelry 80,000 years ago among the people of North Africa, according to studies by an international team of scientists. The shells were carefully pierced, strung, and even dyed with red ocher or heated.
My neighbor has her 25th birthday this week.
Is Lindsay Lohan Connected to a London Jewel Heist?She may have been the last one seen wearing them, but did Lindsay Lohan steal $400,000 worth of Dior jewels from her Elle photoshoot?
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Cops: Woman took pills from open houses - Linda Grablink was caught with pills in her hands (Video)BARRINGTON R.I. - A woman is arrested accused of attending open houses and stealing prescription medications from the homes. Barrington police say over the weekend a real estate agent noticed 50 year-old Linda Grablink with the pills in her hands and confronted her.
Paris gunman makes off with millions in jewelsA thief staged a brazen, daylight holdup in an upscale district of the French capital, stealing at least $8.5 million in jewelry from the prestigious Chopard store, police said.
Woman accused of stealing $12 million in goldA New York woman has been charged with stealing as much as $12 million in gold bullion and jewelry over a period of six years, lifting the ill-gotten booty from her employer in her pocketbook.
Shop raid prompts Muslim veil banThe owners of an Asian jewellery shop which was recently robbed have decided to turn away people wearing the traditional veil worn by Muslim women.
Impasse ends in Iraqi parliamentIraq's parliament ended months of political paralysis by electing a prominent Sunni lawmaker as its new speaker on Sunday. Meanwhile, attackers fatally shot seven people in Baghdad.
Video-Family Feeling Cheated After Sending Jewelry To Cash4Gold"A local family says Cash4Gold claims their envelope with gold jewelry never arrived and the Better Business Bureau ..."
Home gold-buying parties become fadThere's a new home party-giver who wants a seat on your couch. As Americans struggle to make ends meet, home gold-buying parties are becoming the latest fad across the South and Midwest.
Asking dad for daughter's hand has staying powerAlthough seeking permission from a woman's father is no longer a societal must, many prospective grooms still do it as a way to gain the trust, respect or friendship of their future fathers-in-law.
Diamond Sales, and Prices, Plunge in DownturnDiamonds may be forever, but apparently diamond buyers are more fickle.
Is Your Jewelry Eco-Friendly?First they want to blame the cattle for farting, now it's our jewely... What's next?
5 Marketing Tips for a Successful Holiday Selling Season - 9/1/2008 - JCK-Jewelers Circular KeystoneGemFind Relaunches B2B Website for Jewelry Professionals OnlyGemFind.net, a website for jewelry professionals, has improved interactivity and usability as well as added many new features, such as improved search engine optimization of members' Web sites and direct e-mailing within the site.
Cash4Gold would like to melt down and recast their reputation, Offers blogger $3K to take down reviewHow about that? A polite letter, with a clear goal: Bury the "Cash 4 Gold" name in my article so that it doesn't scare off every would-be gold seller with an internet connection. I was kind of thrilled.
PDF: Incident Report Released on George Anthony MissingIncident Report by the Orange County Sheriff's Office
Dog Held For Ransom At Neighborhood ParkA woman held a dog for ransom while demanding jewelry from the dog's owner Wednesday at a Vancouver park.
Calling All Recessionistas: Hot 'BlingJewelry.com' Website Has Sensational Style SavingsThis is a PR letter on Bling Jewelry's influence on fashion in our current economic state
Teen charged with 4 killings in RochesterA 17-year-old high school dropout shot, bludgeoned or stabbed to death four people over the Christmas holidays, three of them in the home of a jewelry merchant, police said Thursday.
Flush misfire leads detective to gun in toiletA stolen gun was recovered when a detective tried to use the suspect's bathroom and couldn't get the toilet to work, authorities in Florida said.
Flush misfire leads detective to gun in toiletA stolen gun was recovered when a detective tried to use the suspect's bathroom and couldn't get the toilet to work, authorities in Florida said.
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