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 ...

The Backpage.com URL now redirects to MILFS.com, a webcamming platform that offers users live erotic chat and pornographic shows with a cornucopia of women who may or may not actually be moms. In case ...

A bipartisan group of 47 lawmakers – almost half of the Senate – is co-sponsoring a bill to close what it sees as a loophole that supports an online market for sex trafficking. They want to remove ...

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”, ...

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 ...

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 ...

Backpage.com bills itself as an internet classified advertising giant where you can find apartments, cars, pets and companionship. But California prosecutors this week alleged that vast majority of ...

Lawyers for the founders of classifieds site Backpage.com told jurors Wednesday that the ads published by their clients were controversial but protected by the First Amendment, after prosecutors said ...

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In Michael Lacey’s younger and more vulnerable years, his father gave him this advice: “Whenever someone pokes a finger in your chest, you grab that finger and you break it off at the knuckle.” Lacey ...