Obama leaves Trinity church - Barack Obama announced Saturday that he and his wife had resigned as members of their Chicago church in the wake of controversial remarks from its pulpit that have become a serious distraction to his presidential campaign. Faye Fiore and Michael Finnegan in the Los Angeles Times

Gay marriage may be a gift to California's economy - Business is up for hotels, bakers and photographers as same-sex couples prepare to wed. Alana Semuels in the Los Angeles Times

John Wooden's tips for courting success - The former UCLA basketball coach shares his insight on how business owners can become better leaders. Jerry Hirsch in the Los Angeles Times

Kennedy having surgery for brain tumor - Sen. Edward M. Kennedy is undergoing surgery Monday at Duke University Medical Center for his cancerous brain tumor, his office said. AP

For an industry long accused of breeding couch potatoes, Wii Fit is a real paradigm shift, showcasing a whole different side of gaming that is actually about much more than entertainment. It's about your health. Ryan Kim in the San Francisco Chronicle

Oakland's new approach to prostitution treats teenagers as victims - As the sun set on a recent day, police arrested a teenage prostitute strutting down International Boulevard in a short black dress and gold heels – "Daddy" tattooed on her neck – before pulling over her pimp in a car. Aurelio Rojas in the Sacramento Bee

Clinton wins Puerto Rico primary - Hillary Rodham Clinton won a lopsided, but largely symbolic victory Sunday in Puerto Rico's presidential primary, the final act in a weekend of tumult that pushed Barack Obama tantalizingly close to the Democratic presidential nomination. The former first lady was winning roughly two-thirds of the votes. AP

Soaring food, gas prices taking their toll - While economists debate whether the nation is technically in a recession, it feels like one to many consumers. The price of gasoline, which some expect will hit $5 a gallon before long, is pushing up the price of oil-based products, from tennis shoes to plastics, and adding to shipping costs for just about everything. Julia M. Scott in the Los Angeles Daily News

Research on immigrants is surprising ... or not - Immigrants in Bakersfield have barely begun to assimilate. The same is true in Modesto, Fresno, Stockton and Merced. But in San Diego, hard up against the Mexican border, immigrants – at least the ones who have not returned to their native lands – are doing better. Daniel Weintraub in the Sacramento Bee

Scott McClellan's book - The uproar about former White House Press Secretary Scott McClellan's disloyal memoir about his time in the service of President George W. Bush has been the source of the latest white noise emanating from cable news talk shows. Rob Stutzman in the San Francisco Chronicle

Schools in Sacramento area feeling region's economic pain - Driving a vanful of kids on a field trip used to be an insignificant expense. Suzy McMurtrey considered the cost of gas a small donation to her son's school. Laurel Rosenhall in the Sacramento Bee

Myths about getting better gas mileage debunked - Wacky theories proliferate as pump prices rise. Even some plausible strategies don't actually work. David Colker in the Los Angeles Times

Carol Race thinks it's important for her 13-year-old son to be in church on Sundays for Catholic Mass. Leaders of the Church of St. Joseph once felt the same way, but not anymore. They say Race's autistic son Adam is disruptive and his erratic behavior threatens the safety of other parishioners. The northern Minnesota church has obtained a restraining order to keep Adam away, an action that has been deeply hurtful to the Race family and has brought them support from parents of other autistic children. AP

In a letter to the church's leaders, Obama said he and his wife, Michelle, had sadly decided to resign their membership, saying their relations with Trinity "had been strained by the divisive statements" of the retiring pastor, "which sharply conflict with our own views." The news came as a shock to many parishioners. LA Times

For weeks, the members of Trinity United Church of Christ on the South Side of the city felt battered by the national spotlight that had accompanied the growing fame of their longtime member, Senator Barack Obama . NY Times

Discover has a “Paydown Planner” that “culls data from the customer, including interest rate, past payment history and spending patterns, to individually forecast how long it will take customers to pay their debt if they make a specific payment each month. Users can increase or decrease the payment to gauge the time it will take to reduce their balance.” FOX News

“Research from The Nielsen Co. shows that drivers have been making more frequent trips to the pump but limiting how much they put in the tank. Convenience stores, which sell about 80 percent of the nation's gas, are seeing fewer fill-ups, said industry spokesman Jeff Lenard.” Washington Post

The class airhead has a master's degree and works in operating rooms. The class couple has not been an item for years. And the guy with the prettiest hair doesn't have as much these days. Years ago, classmates voted them part of an elite group known as high school "senior mosts." For the most part, those labels remain only in memories and the pages of yearbooks stored in boxes on basement floors. As this year's batch of seniors leaves their high school days behind, we opened the pages of dusty yearbooks from 20, 25 and 30 years ago. Canton Repository

How should a church be more like a bar? A big birthday is being celebrated today by a barroom shack on Oakland's waterfront that has long enjoyed an immunity to tidiness and time. The ramshackle Heinolds' First and Last Chance saloon is turning 125, or perhaps 124. The bar's history, like its murky, smoke-coated interior, has been obscured by the passage of years. SF Chronicle