TODAY'S TOP STORIES: Herbalist suing FTC
A Taos herbalist is suing the Federal Trade Commission for infringement of his First Amendment rights after the FTC threatened to sue him for telling people about the historic uses of some of the herbs he grows and sells, the Taos News reports.
The FTC specifically had objected to information Mark Hershiser had on a Web site about the historical use of astralgus root in treating cancer and hepatitis, the paper reports, but Hershiser's suit says even after he pulled the information off the site, the FTC told him he had to pay restitution to every person he had sold the herbs to in 15 years of business.
The historic San Albino Church in equally historic Mesilla has been given basilica status by the Vatican, the Las Cruces Sun-News reports. Only one other Catholic church in New Mexico has that status: St. Francis of Assisi Basilica in Santa Fe.
The order approving the church's new status can be seen here.
The Las Cruces Catholic Diocese sent an application to Rome last month after parish members worked more than a year preparing overviews of the church's history, its support of local culture and religion and the education outreach it has conducted since its founding in the mid-1880s, the paper said.
Two miles from the Navajo border, a gas station in the town of Waterflow is in high demand for motorists entering the reservation, where "diesel fuel is as scarce as water," the Farmington Daily Times reports.
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