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A Naperville high school student was charged with a hate crime after allegedly posting a racist Craigslist ad featuring another student, prosecutors announced Wednesday.

It’s a widely known vaping cartridge in the marijuana economy, but it’s not a licensed brand. And it’s got the kind of market buzz no legitimate company would want. The vaping cartridges that go by the catchy, one-syllable name “Dank” — a slang word for highly potent cannabis — are figuring prominently in the federal investigation to determine what has...

A former videographer for a San Diego porn company that has been accused of luring young women into appearing in sex videos admitted in court Thursday that he knowingly lied to the women.

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A San Diego mom is thinking twice about handing her cellphone over to her toddler after her tech-savvy tot – unbeknownst to mom – bought a $430 couch online while playing with her mom’s cellphone.

On review boards for commercial sex, buyers denigrate the women they rate and spin fantasies about sex acts. They use forums on the sites to warn one another about anti-trafficking busts and to answer each other’s questions about the “hobby.”

Nearly two dozen women say what started with a response to a modeling ad on Craigslist ended with videos of them having sex posted to some of the most popular porn websites in the world.

As the government shutdown drags on, companies, restaurants and service providers across the country are coming up with ways to help the estimated 800,000 Americans not getting paid. NBC’s Dan Scheneman reports.

When the nation’s capital was hit by almost a foot of snow this past weekend, Nick Elger saw a chance to make a buck. Elger, 28, usually spends his days working for the Environmental Protection Agency, but he’s one of nearly 400,000 furloughed employees out of work during what’s become America’s longest government shutdown. “I’ve been getting stir crazy just...

A Windsor woman set out to buy a car online and found herself scammed.

Recent crackdowns targeting the sex-for-hire industry have reduced the number of commercial ads on the internet and helped fight online trafficking. But activists and police say the efforts may have had unintended consequences — landing women and girls back on the streets, where dangers also lurk. The impact was almost immediate after the seizure of Backpage.com by the federal government...

A Baltic teen is looking to supply veterans and active military with guitars to help those suffering from PTSD and dealing with challenges they’ve encountered after serving in the United States Armed Forces.

Norwich police are investigating a “house for rent” scam where they said a fake owner is asking perspective renters to send to mail money to an out of state address with the promise to FedEx the keys.

Sentencing was postponed Monday for a Los Angeles woman who made at least $300,000 annually by operating an illegal, unregistered multi-million dollar money transmitting business that exchanged the digital currency Bitcoin for cash.

Americans looking for love or companionship on Craigslist can’t make a connection. The classified ads site on Friday has taken its personals section offline in the United States.

A Colorado man accused of killing 19-year-old woman, Natalie Marie Bollinger, who he claims to have fatally shot after he replied to her Craigslist ad seeking a hitman — for herself — as part of her suicide, investigators said in court documents obtained Monday, NBC News reported. The 22-year old suspect, Joseph Michael Lopez, told police officials that he tried...

Kyle Juhl made one last attempt to patch things up with his fiancée, then took his ring back, put a gun to his head and pulled the trigger as she and her mother ran from the apartment. The bullet went through a wall and narrowly missed a neighbor’s head as she bent to pick up her little boy. The Smith...

Waterford police are warning potential renters of a Craigslist scam regarding a property in New London.

A Massachusetts man is accused of operating a “chilling” cyberstalking campaign against his former roommate, her friends and family.