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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

A federal jury found two former Backpage.com executives guilty of conspiring to use the website to facilitate prostitution and a third guilty of a financial crime related to the classified advertising ...

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 ...

Editor’s note: Julie Ruvolo is a freelance writer and digital editor for the New York Museum of Sex. You can follow her on Twitter. According to a growing list of religious groups, feminists, ...

Editor’s Note: Andrea Powell is founder & executive director of FAIR Girls, a D.C. based organization providing safe housing and emergency and long- term services to survivors of human trafficking.

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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 ...

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 ...

Backpage.com founder Michael Lacey was convicted of international concealment money laundering in 2023, but deadlocked on 84 other prostitution facilitation and money laundering charges. The Backpage ...