A U.S. ruling set in motion the gem’s repatriation to Brazil, where it was first unearthed more than 20 years ago. By Alexandra E. Petri Tales have been told for years about the famed 836-pound ...
Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. (Allison Hong / Los Angeles Times; photos from Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department, New York Public Library) It was an ...
For more than 15 years, one of the world's most famous gemstones — the 180,000-carat Bahia Emerald — has been held in Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department custody, its ultimate fate uncertain amid ...
LOS ANGELES — It was an ordinary day at his Los Angeles law office when John Nadolenco opened a letter from Brazil enlisting his help in a mission to retrieve a stolen, and quite possibly cursed, ...