Keshia Smith was on her second day digging through the dirt at an Arkansas state park when she spotted something flashing in the mud. “I plucked it out and looked at it,” Smith said. “I thought nothing of it.” She, her boyfriend and her brother were visiting Crater of Diamonds State Park on April 22, part of a roughly 1,100-mile road trip from Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. They had come, like thousands of others each year, hoping to find an uncut diamond they could keep. “Everybody was excited. We were planning and prepping and getting different materials ready to go,” said Smith, 47. The first day yielded nothing. So ... (full story)