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 ...

U.S. District Judge Diane Humetewa acquitted three former Backpage executives of myriad counts against them last week—more evidence of how empty so much of the federal case against them is. Humetewa ...

"After consultation with counsel, I decline to answer your question based on the rights provided by the 5th and 1st Amendments." Again and again, these words rang out through the crowded Congressional ...

Backpage founder Michael Lacey was sentenced yesterday to five years in prison and fined $3 million after being convicted on one count of money laundering. Lacey, 76, was also sentenced to three years ...

A Florida woman and an anti-human trafficking organization are joining the legal campaign targeting Backpage.com, the classifieds website criticized as a hub for illegal prostitution and sex ...

A founder of the New Times tabloid has been charged in Phoenix in the apparent culmination of a federal human-trafficking investigation. Authorities had spent months probing whether Backpage, the ...

PHOENIX — The U.S. Attorney's Office here unsealed indictments Monday against seven people associated with Backpage, officially charging that the classified advertising website operated as a thinly ...

PHOENIX — When the Department of Justice unceremoniously shut down Backpage last week, it was the first public-facing step in a sweeping criminal case against the website's executives. But before ...

The chief executive of Backpage.com, a website investigators have described as an “online brothel,” pleaded guilty Thursday to California money-laundering charges, while the company itself pleaded ...

The U.S. Attorney's Office in Phoenix unsealed indictments Monday against seven people associated with Backpage, officially charging that the classified advertising website operated as a thinly-veiled ...