A federal jury deadlocked on prostitution-related charges filed against former New Times editor Michael Lacey, but found him guilty Thursday of a financial crime related to the classified advertising ...

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A contractor for Backpage.com has been aggressively soliciting and creating sex-related ads for the sleazy classified ad site, according to a trove of newly discovered documents. The explosive new ...

“Nightline” has been conducting an investigation for over a year. — -- “Those children were sold, and they simply tried to sanitize it. That, ladies and gentlemen, is the definition of evil”, ...

Backpage.com, one of the world’s largest classified ad websites and a frequent target in the political battle against sex trafficking, closed its adult ads section Monday in the United States, ...

PHOENIX — Michael Lacey, a founder of the lucrative classified site Backpage.com, was sentenced Wednesday to five years in prison and fined $3 million for a single money laundering count in a ...

Reporting from Washington — In the climax of a fight that pitted foes of sex trafficking against advocates of free internet speech, the Justice Department on Friday seized the Backpage.com website and ...

WASHINGTON - Executives at the advertising website Backpage.com refused to testify before Congress Tuesday following a Senate report that accuses the site of systematically editing its “adult” ads to ...

The body of Ashley Mays – a 20-year-old woman who was nine-months pregnant — was found strangled to death inside a suburban Atlanta hotel room with zip ties binding her hands and feet. Just over a ...

A congressional subcommittee’s report detailing online advertising website Backpage.com’s suspected ties to sex trafficking aired on Capitol Hill on Tuesday, a day ahead of a scheduled Sacramento ...

Editor’s Note: Andrea Powell is founder & executive director of FAIR Girls, a D.C. based organization providing safe housing and emergency and long- term services to survivors of human trafficking.

Seven top executives of the wildly popular online classified ad service backpage.com have been named in a 93-count federal indictment unsealed on Monday. The indictment alleges that backpage.com "is ...