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 ...

A former executive and two operations managers for classified site Backpage.com worked vigorously to keep the platform free of ads for prostitution even as strategies on how to do so constantly ...

The man who managed the website Backpage.com said during cross-examination that he wasn't certain that every ad in the female escort section of the website was for prostitution. Carl Ferrer, the man ...

PHOENIX - Two journalists who founded an alternative weekly newspaper in Phoenix and later created the lucrative classified site Backpage.com are scheduled to go on trial Sept. 1 on charges of ...

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 ...

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PHOENIX - A founder of the lucrative classified site Backpage.com will face his second trial on charges of facilitating prostitution and laundering money in what authorities say was a scheme to ...

PHOENIX (AP) — Federal prosecutors in Arizona said Tuesday they will retry a co-founder of the now defunct classified site Backpage.com on dozens of prostitution facilitation and money laundering ...

PHOENIX (AP) — Two former executives for the now-shuttered classified site Backpage.com are scheduled to be sentenced Tuesday in Phoenix for conspiring to facilitate prostitution by selling sex ads. A ...

PHOENIX (AP) — A new indictment in Arizona against operators of Backpage.com alleges the classified ad site gave free ads to prostitutes and cultivated arrangements with others who worked in the sex ...

PHOENIXPHOENIX — A founder of the lucrative classified site Backpage.com will face his second trial on charges of facilitating prostitution and laundering money in what authorities say was a scheme to ...