China’s copper crash: bars fall from investment fad to scrap in a month

A brief speculative frenzy amid skyrocketing gold and silver prices leaves some retail investors holding shiny kilogram bars ...

Third North Texas jewelry store raided over alleged connections to $74 million gold scam targeting seniors

A team of 20 SWAT officers swept into Malani Jewelers on North Central Expressway, detaining 13 employees and seizing crates full of gold from inside. Authorities allege the jewelry store was one of a ...

‘We melt it down’: As gold hits record highs, business has never been so good for San Diego precious metals merchants

It is a boom time for bullion, as people dig through jewelry boxes and coin collections to turn metal into cash. Instead of ...

75-year-old disabled Chicago woman wins case after van towed, sold for scrap. How it may protect others from costly loss

It took seven years, a class-action lawsuit and millions in taxpayer dollars — all because the city of Chicago took a wheelchair-accessible van and sold it for scrap parts without warning its owner ...