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Ross Ulbricht, creator of the underground website Silk Road, which let users anonymously buy and sell anything from drugs to hacking tutorials, was sentenced Friday to life in prison after he made a tearful plea for leniency. Ulbricht, who is 31, was convicted in February on seven counts ranging...

F.B.I. Seizes Silk Road, an Online Drug Market, and Makes Arrest Federal authorities have charged a man with running Silk Road, a popular online black market for drugs. The authorities identified the man as Ross Ulbricht, who was arrested by F.B.I. agents Tuesday afternoon at a library in...