A Web site for gay men has sued PayPal, claiming the online payment service refused to process transactions for the site after discovering adult content.

New Orleans-based CFS.com sued Friday in Santa Clara County Superior Court. The lawsuit claims San Jose-based PayPal stopped processing charitable donations the site was collecting for Hurricane Katrina victims because the site engaged in "the sale of adult, sexually oriented or obscene materials or services."

The company said the purpose of the site is to "entertain gay men," said founder Keith Griffith. "It's a resource for any guy who wants to figure out how to hook up with another man," he said.

PayPal spokeswoman Sara Bettencourt said the company has strict guidelines prohibiting use on adult-themed Web sites. PayPal stopped service when it discovered the company was using PayPal logos on Web pages that advertised "adult services," she said.

FREMONT, Calif. (AP) - The Fremont City Council was set to vote Tuesday on developing a strategy to lure the Oakland A's baseball team if negotiations with Oakland fall apart, council members said.

If the council decides to proceed, the city will hire a consultant to assess land availability, costs and economic benefits to the city, officials said.

The team is dissatisfied with its current facility, McAfee Coliseum, which it shares with the Oakland Raiders, and negotiations on an expensive new facility are proving difficult. Oakland A's managing partner Lew Wolff said he wants to keep the team in Oakland but is open to moving.

"We haven't drawn any conclusions yet," he said. "Our first choice is Oakland, our second is the Coliseum area, and our third is somewhere in Alameda County."

Fremont Mayor Bob Wasserman said he and Wolff share similar development goals. Some observers believe Fremont has a good chance at attracting the A's because of its location and ample land availability.

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) - State regulators and environmental researchers have begun spraying hundreds of acres of marsh grass in the San Francisco Bay with an herbicide intended to halt the smothering of the bay's mudflats.

Spartina alterniflora, also known as Atlantic or smooth cordgrass, was intentionally introduced into the Bay in the 1970s by the Army Corps of Engineers to stabilize flood-control levees on Alameda island, said Erik Grijalva, field operations manger for the Invasive Spartina Project.

The bay's mudflats support marine worms, crustaceans and mollusks that in turn support hundreds of thousands of shorebirds. The fast-spreading weed can dominate marshes above the mudflats, creating a simplified and impoverished ecosystem, researchers said.

Since starting spraying last month, researchers have covered almost 1,000 acres of tidal flats with Habitat, a herbicide that kills the grass but which researchers said has minimal environmental effect. About 1,500 acres have been invaded by the weed, researchers said.

"The herbicide we're using has extremely low toxicity, with virtually no impacts to humans or animals," Grijalva said. "It works by selectively interfering with three different amino acid pathways in the plant. It is by far the least invasive, the least destructive way to go."

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