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Man charged after jewelry stolen from homes damaged in Calgary house explosion – Calgary

A man has been charged in relation to a break-in at an evacuated residence following a house explosion and fire in northeast Calgary last month.

On March 30 at around 1:45 pm, a woman and her husband were returning to their house in the 700 block of Maryvale Way NE after a house explosion sent 10 people to hospital and damaged other houses several days earlier.


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Calgary house explosion leaves 10 in hospital, 6 in life-threatening condition


When they arrived, they were confronted by a man who was leaving their home, who claimed to be a security guard. The

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Heidi Horten: Christie’s largest jewelry sale: A billionaire widow, diamonds and a fortune built on Nazi plunder | Society

Lope de Vega wrote in his play, La Circe (1624): “Que la sombra de un hombre poderoso / claro en linaje / mil delitos cubre” — That shadow of a powerful man / clear in lineage / covers a thousand crimes. Centuries later, Honore de Balzac would express a similar sentiment: “Behind every great fortune lies a great crime.” So, what delinquency lies behind Heidi Horten’s private collection of jewelry that was to go under the hammer at Christie’s in May in Geneva? Horten, who died last year, was an art collector and philanthropist who became the richest woman

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Toothbrushes, cloths or hand soap? How to care for jewelery at home | Australian lifestyle

At some point in my teens, I adopted a large white opal ring of my grandmother’s and claimed it as my own. It is set on a pale gold band amid 12 delicate claws. Its depth is so impressive that people often comment on the way it glows in the light.

Every time I wear it, I’m intrigued that my grandmother (who died long before I was born) had hands exactly the same size as mine. Embarrassingly, in the decades I’ve owned it, I’ve never cleaned it. I will rectify this, following the expert advice I was provided for

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Mount Pearl jewelry store scammed out of nearly $100K in credit card cloning scheme

A man wearing a white sweater stands in a jewelry store. The counter and back walls have a marble design.
Rohit Verma owns the NL Gold Factory in Mount Pearl, which was scammed out of close to $100,000 at the end of last year. (Submitted by Rohit Verma)

A Mount Pearl business owner is warning businesses to become vigilantes after he was scammed out of almost $100,000 at the end of last year.

Rohit Verma, who owns NL Gold Factory in Mount Pearl, was contacted by someone in Montreal who was interested in his jewelry after seeing it on social media in November. The two spokes over telephone and text messages, with Verma saying there were no immediate red flags.

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4 men were sentenced for armed robbery of a Glendale jewelry store last year

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Maricopa County Attorney Rachel Mitchell announced Monday that a judge has sentenced four defendants in the 2022 armed robbery of a Glendale jewelry store.

In March of 2022, four men walked into a Glendale jewelry store wearing ski masks and brandishing a weapon with the intent to commit robbery.

Nine employees and customers had their wallets and phones taken and were held hostage while the robbers put $1.5 million in jewelry and cash into pillowcases. The hostages had been threatened with a weapon and some were zip-tied.

When the police arrived, all four suspects were still in the act

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Alton Mason Named First Male Face of French Jeweler MESSIKA

MESSIKA Paris, the opulence-first French jewelry house founded by Valérie Messika in 2005, has found its first male face in model Alton Mason. Starring in the brand’s Spring 2023 campaign alongside current ambassador Kendall Jenner, the famed multi-hyphenate puts a masculine spin on the brand’s contemporary jewels.

Mason previously appeared in MESSIKA’s Paris Fashion Week show in September, storming the runway alongside Naomi Campbell. “In our second show, Alton was our male model,” said the designer. “This combination was a huge success. Rooted in the world of fashion. Always on the move, Alton dances and acts. This works perfectly with

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Agawam to consider revising jewelry policy to allow piercings in physical education

AGAWAM — The Agawam School Committee is considering loosening policies around students who wear jewelery during physical education classes.

A revised jewelry policy would allow students to keep in piercings so long as they are secured — taped down with an adhesive bandage or tape — to mitigate injuries.

The school committee will review the new policy during Tuesday’s regularly scheduled meeting held at Agawam Junior High School at 7 pm The committee considered the proposal during a meeting in mid-December but opted to clarify when a piercing needed to be covered up.

School Committee Member Dawn DeMatteo said during

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