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Moriah Prichard tried to keep her cool as her boyfriend, Troy Goldschmidt, was being detained during a routine traffic stop in front of the Pablo Center in downtown Eau Claire, WI.Officers Maggie Anderson and Josh Miller had pulled the couple over, claiming that one of ...

The festive holiday season got off to a roaring start on Black Friday as the strength of the jewelry and apparel segments helped propel retail sales by 2.5% year-over-year. The Black Friday sales results built upon the double-digit growth experienced in 2022, according to Mastercard ...

Taco Bell Canada is about to unveil its “biggest crown jewel yet” — four 1-carat lab-grown diamonds made from taco shells. The diamonds serve as an ode to what the company calls “the perfectly imperfect nature of tacos.”“Taco Bell is all about celebrating life’s messy ...

The California Sunset Diamonds, a super-rare matched pair of fancy vivid orange-yellow sparklers, are set to headline Christie’s Magnificent Jewels sale in New York on December 6. The fancy-color diamonds weigh 12.20 carats and 11.96 carats, respectively.Orange diamonds are highly coveted, yet hardly ever come ...

When preparing his childhood home to be sold in 2011 after his 83-year-old mom fell ill, Gary Guadagno was careful to check every nook and cranny. You see, Guadagno remembered that his parents had a penchant for squirreling away valuable items in the modest two-bedroom ...

November’s popular birthstone, topaz, is widely admired for its vibrant array of colors, including yellows, oranges, blues, greens, reds, browns, pinks and purples.The topaz in the photo, above, are part of the Smithsonian’s National Gem Collection and can be seen up close and personal in ...

Next week marks the beginning of “engagement season,” the especially blissful time of the year that stretches from Thanksgiving until Valentine’s Day and accounts for nearly 40% of all marriage proposals.About 19% of all proposals take place during the month of December, which is more ...

Welcome to Music Friday when we often bring you throwback hits with jewelry, gemstones or precious metals in the title or lyrics. Today, we flip back the calendar to 1957 and find an 18-year-old Ray Stevens signing a big-time record deal.What got the label’s attention ...

Lucapa Diamond Company has recovered a 235-carat, gem-quality stone at its Lulo alluvial mine in Angola. It’s the second-largest ever recorded at Lulo, the mine that produced the famous 404-carat “4 de Fevereiro” diamond in 2016.The Lulo Diamond Project in Angola, which is owned by ...

The 17.6-carat “Bleu Royal” lived up to its pre-auction fanfare at Christie’s Geneva on Tuesday as the largest internally flawless fancy vivid blue diamond ever put up for auction sold for $43.8 million after a tense, six-minute bidding war.Two phone bidders battled back and forth ...

Researchers at the University of British Columbia (UBC) have demonstrated how “biological fingerprints” in the soil can signal the presence of diamond-bearing kimberlite ore tens of meters below the surface.The DNA sequencing of microbes represents a new tool for mineral exploration — a tool that’s ...

A 292.46-ounce gold nugget originally discovered in 1980 by Jack Bray at the Feysville mine in Western Australia is expected to fetch upwards of $1 million when it headlines “Jewels Online: The Geneva Edit,” a Christie’s online auction.Described as a large amorphous form with bright ...