Registered sex offenders won't be able to find a date on Match.com, thanks to a settlement with a woman who says she was sexually assaulted by a convicted sex offender while she was using the site. The colossal dating service has agreed to conduct background checks to weed out sex offenders that try to use the site, despite previous concerns that such a policy would not be foolproof and may provide a false sense of security. more ›

Alan Paul Wurtzel, the legal inspiration for Match.com's stricter background checks, pleaded no contest to charges that he sexually assaulted a woman he met through the dating site, according to KTLA. Wurtzel, 67, is accused of sexually assaulting a 53-year-old TV executive Carole Markin on their second date. He is scheduled to be sentenced September 19. He faces one year in jail, five years of probation and he must register as a sex offender for life, according to KTLA. more ›

53-year-old Carol Markin, the Los Angeles woman suing the dating website Match.com after an alleged rape, will be in court Monday. Markin wants the site to stop accepting new subscribers until a screening system for sex offenders can be implemented. more ›

After a Los Angeles woman reported that she was raped by a man she met on Match.com, the colossal dating website has agreed to institute new screening policies for potential users. The LA Times reports that the site will now begin cross-checking users against a national sex-offender registry, despite previous concerns that such a policy would not be foolproof and may provide a false sense of security. more ›

A woman filed an anonymous civil lawsuit in LA Superior Court Wednesday asking that Match.com cease new registrations until the online dating site has a system in place to screen new signups and exclude registered sex offenders from its membership. The woman, an Ivy League graduate who works in film and television, according to her attorney Mark L. Webb, was the victim of an alleged sexual attack after meeting for a second date with a man she had met via Match.com. more ›

Five entries in and already she has a media contact sending out emails? Welcome to LA, where attractive homeless women attempt to write themselves out of poverty by blogging about Italian leather boots, free samples from the Clinique counter, Amy's Gluten-Free Baked Ziti and finding love online. Dating While Homeless has arrived. more ›

As cities age, so do their laws. Sometimes they get outdated and sometimes hardly enforced. Such is the case with this old 1920s or 30s Los Angeles law: "No person shall play ball or any game of sport with a ball or football or throw, cast, shoot or discharge any stone, pellet, bullet, arrow or any other missile, in, over, across, along or upon any street or sidewalk or in any public park, except on those portions of said park set apart for such purposes." more ›

As a city known for its beautiful weather and beautiful people, you'd think it would be difficult to name a more ideal city for singles than Los Angeles. However, Forbes.com, actually found 15 other cities that they think are a better fit for bachelors and bachelorettes in their "8th Annual Best Cities for Singles" list. more ›