Federal and local authorities have long been monitoring Backpage.com and Craigslist, among other websites, as a prominent online marketplace for sex for sale. And technology has moved the world's ...

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 ...

When it comes to battling prostitution and child exploitation, the sheriff for the nation's second-largest county is walking tall and carrying a big stick. That's why Illinois, Cook County Sheriff ...

(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 ...

The Brooklyn prosecutor who had a starring role in New York Times columnist Nicholas Kristof's expose of Backpage, the Village Voice's online personals section, has resigned amid charges she sat on ...

Police said there s only so much they can do about online advertisements that describe one type of service but really offer something much more salacious. Women from all over the country are ...

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 head of Backpage.com, the world's second-largest online classifieds site, was arrested in Texas yesterday under a California warrant for pimping, conspiracy, pimping of a minor, and attempted ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. NEW YORK – The popular, online ...

Critics of Craigslist's adult advertisements have taken their battle to the site's hometown, publishing a newspaper ad that claims the service is "the choice" for selling sex with underage girls. The ...