The Hope Diamond, said Jacques, is the number-one visited item in the Smithsonian Institute collection every year. "Diamonds hold that much allure." The GIA Mission GIA, a nonprofit organization ...

Kamara, 29, had run away from a hospital in Encinitas an hour before he was arrested. Law enforcement had been asked to return him for treatment, his family’s lawsuit says.

Manashe Sezanayev has pleaded guilty to swapping real diamonds with fake lab-grown ones and has agreed to pay $200,000 in ...