The years-long saga of Bahia emerald, the world’s largest, took another dramatic turn Thursday when a federal judge in Washington, D.C., approved a request from the Department of Justice preventing ...

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 ...

LOS ANGELES (CN) - In the Bahia emerald trial on Tuesday, gem buyer Anthony "Tony" Thomas insisted that he is the rightful owner of the world's largest emerald, even though he does not have the bill ...

LOS ANGELES — In the past 6½ years, nine men, one woman, three corporations and one government have laid claim to the giant emerald that’s been at the center of a protracted ownership dispute in Los ...

An 836-pound “cursed” emerald worth nearly $1 billion will be returned to Brazil after 15 years under lock and key in Los Angeles. The 180,000-carat Bahia Emerald was smuggled out of the South ...

The bizarre, tortuous journey of the Bahia Emerald began in the depths of a Brazilian mine and eventually landed it in a Los Angeles County sheriff’s evidence locker, where it remains today. Since ...

LOS ANGELES (KABC) -- It weighs in at 840 pounds, a boulder containing more than 180,000 carats of emerald crystals, but the future of the Bahia Emerald remains in limbo. Attorney Andrew Spielberger ...

LOS ANGELES--(BUSINESS WIRE)--A bench trial before the Hon. John A. Kronstadt to determine whether or not Anthony Thomas has a legitimate claim to ownership of the Bahia Emerald continues on December ...

The long and tortuous legal battle over the ownership of an 840-pound gem once valued at $372 million went to trial Thursday as the last group of active claimants to the Bahia Emerald told a Los ...

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 ...

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, 836-pound emerald.