GREEN BAY – The end of Craigslist personal ads and Backpage.com this month was a significant step forward in the fight against human trafficking, but only a step. The online advertising sites were two ...

Police in York County used a sting on Internet sites Backpage and Craigslist to make prostitution and drug arrests Wednesday, police said. Officers found that ads for drugs were online on Craigslist, ...

(Reuters) – California Attorney General Kamala Harris on Friday filed new criminal charges of pimping and money laundering against the chief executive and controlling shareholders of the website ...

Here we go again. History repeats itself with classified-ad website Backpage.com's announcement that it's shuttering its "adult" section after years of unrelenting pressure from public officials at ...

SALISBURY, Md. – Before Backpage was terminated, Cpl. Chris Heid could locate sex trafficking victims exclusively on the popular classified advertising website. Backpage was responsive to the Maryland ...

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 ...

PHOENIX — Backpage.com, the website that federal prosecutors contend was intentionally and illegally designed to help promote ads for prostitution, seemed designed to evade scrutiny. For years, the ...

For a year and a half, River Stark took down all the mirrors in her home. Seeing her own reflection “was so traumatizing” for Stark, a transgender woman who hadn’t yet undergone the surgical ...

Corrections & Clarifications: An earlier version of this article misstated the date when jury selection for Michael Lacey's trial will begin. Weeks after the death of a key defendant, federal ...

In the past few years, Backpage.com has seen increasing push-back from regulators over its alleged support of illegal sex work and human trafficking, and government seemingly just landed the final ...

PHOENIX — A founder of a 45-year-old alternative weekly newspaper in Phoenix has been charged in the apparent culmination of a federal human-trafficking investigation. Michael Lacey, 69, of Sedona, ...

Backpage.com, the website federal prosecutors contend was intentionally, and illegally, designed to facilitate ads for prostitution, seemed designed to evade scrutiny. The website, whose founders and ...