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 ...

(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 ...

Like Craigslist before it, Backpage.com has shut down the "Adult" section of its classified-ad website, amid a seemingly endless stream of government pressure. In both cases, state and federal ...

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 State Police ...

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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

Carl Ferrer, the chief executive officer of Amsterdam-based classified-ad site Backpage, was arrested in Texas Thursday afternoon at the Houston airport. Ferrer, who is the subject of a current ...

CHICAGO (CN) - An Illinois sheriff has illegally used backdoor methods to pressure credit card companies to stop doing business with Backpage.com, infringing on millions of users' free speech rights, ...

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 ...