(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 ...

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 ...

One of the founders of Backpage.com took the stand in federal court in downtown Phoenix on Tuesday as the state’s first witness in a criminal case against his former colleagues: co-founders, managers ...

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 ...

Backpage.com, the website federal prosecutors contend was intentionally, and illegally, designed to facilitate ads for prostitution, seemed designed to evade scrutiny. The website, whose founders and ...