Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. After five weeks, the trial of Backpage.com executives in Phoenix is nearly over. On Friday, federal prosecutors finished their ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Michael Lacey, the former top editor of the New Times tabloid, was sentenced to five years in federal prison Wednesday for ...

PHOENIX (AZFamily) — The founder of the Phoenix New Times and one of the creators of the notorious website, Backpage.com, surrendered to U.S. Marshals Service in the federal courthouse in downtown ...

Attorneys on both sides of the Backpage.com trial wrapped closing arguments in a Phoenix federal courtroom Wednesday, but the jury won't begin deliberations until Tuesday because of COVID-19. Joy ...

PHOENIX (AP) - Former executives of Backpage.com are seeking the recusal of the federal judge presiding over a criminal case in which they are accused of knowingly publishing ads for sexual services, ...

PHOENIX — Michael Lacey, a founder of the lucrative classified site Backpage.com, was convicted Thursday on a single count of money laundering and acquitted on another. But an Arizona jury deadlocked ...

Corrections & Clarifications: An earlier version of this article misstated the date when jury selection for Michael Lacey's trial will begin. Weeks after the death of a key defendant, federal ...

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 ...