The director of a Kansas coalition that helps domestic abuse victims says a new state contract encouraging two-parent families and abstinence might conflict with the work of her 29 member organizations.

Joyce Grover is executive director of the Kansas Coalition Against Sexual and Domestic Violence. The state’s contract with Grover’s coalition expires in June, and she says some phrases in the new contract might make it tougher for groups to operate effectively.

A spokeswoman for the state Department of Social and Rehabilitation Services said her agency is clarifying some of the contract’s language.

Democratic Sen. Laura Kelly says some of the specifications in the state’s request for proposals for the new contract don’t make any sense in domestic violence situations.

A Topeka liquor store employee is dead after being attacked with what appeared to be a blunt object on Christmas Eve.

The Topeka Capital-Journal reports several people were inside Hudson Liquor when the clerk was killed. Officers were called to the store at 1:43 and found the victim dead behind the counter.

Police Capt. Jerry Stanley says investigators believe the attacker was intoxicated and may live in the neighborhood in which he ran away from the liquore store.

The killer is described as a slender white man in his 20s who is about 6 feet tall. He was wearing a blue stocking cap and pajama or cargo pants, which witnesses say he had to stop at least once to pull up.

Stanley says robbery appears to be the motive.

Former Kansas Attorney General Phil Kline has responded to a state ethics panel report with a 175-page document led off with a series of Bible verses.

A three-member disciplinary panel issued a report October 13 that determined Kline had repeatedly violated many of the Kansas Rules of Professional Conduct during his investigation abortion providers.

The Kansas Board for Discipline of Attorneys recommended an indefinite suspension of his law license, which Kline already has allowed to lapse in Kansas.

The Topeka Capital-Journal reports Kline’s response denies breaking ethics rules and calls the complaint against him politically motivated.

As district attorney, Kline filed 107 criminal charges against a Planned Parenthood clinic in 2007, accusing it of performing illegal abortions and falsifying records. Many of those charges have been dropped.

The family of a 19-year-old college student who mysteriously disappeared a week ago says it will donate a $10,000 reward to police and charities.

Aisha Kahn disappeared while studying on the University of Kansas Edwards Campus in Overland Park. Dozens of law enforcement officers and hundreds of volunteers searched for her after she left a message for her sister saying she was being harassed by a drunken man.

Her sister and a cousin went to the campus and found Kahn’s phone, book bag and iPod on a picnic table, but she was gone.

Five days later police announced they had located Kahn and there was no abduction.

Family members posted a statement Friday on Facebook thanking the public for its support but asking for privacy as they try to heal.

Manhattan police say an 84-year-old woman has been scammed out of $80,000 from a company claiming she had won a prize.

The Manhattan Mercury reports Doris Hofman was told by a company calling itself the GlobalInternational Sweepstakes and Lottery Co. that in order to get the prize, she needed to give the company money first.

Police Capt. Kurt Moldrup says Hofman gave the company $80,000 from June to December before realizing something was wrong.

A retired Lawrence police sergeant is the first recipient of a life-saving award from Nebraska Furniture Mart for saving a baby’s life at the Kansas City, Kan., store.

The Lawrence Journal-World reports part-time security guard Mark Warren took action after a panicked family ran up to him Nov. 19 with a baby that had turned blue and wasn’t breathing.

Warren calmed the father down, laid the baby out on a security desk and started CPR. The baby regained consciousness and soon was being cared for by a woman who identified herself as a registered nurse.

Nebraska Furniture Mart presented Warren with an award for saving the baby’s life. A company spokesman says it’s the first time the firm has presented anyone with the life-saving award.

A longtime Kansas state senator says he doubts there will be a move anytime soon to ban cellphone use by drivers in the state.

The Wichita Eagle reports Sen. Les Donovan says cellphones have become too much of a personal tool that everyone uses. He also notes the Legislature already has banned texting while driving and placed restrictions on cellphone use by underage drivers.

The National Transportation Safety Board recommended recently that all cellphone use should be banned for drivers. A University of Kansas psychology professor who has researched distracted driving says it’s only a matter of time before a cellphone ban is in place.

The Wichita Republican says any bill that calls for an outright ban on drivers would not get very far in the Legislature.

Hoisington is taking on blight with an aggressive effort to tear down dilapidated homes and remove junked vehicles.

City Manager Jonathan Mitchell says residents felt their community was more prosperous than it appeared.

The Great Bend Tribune reported that two homes have been torn down since April and the city is accepting bids to tear down three more. Meanwhile, police have issued 70 property improvement requests for junked vehicles.

The city also is working with eight or nine homeowners and one garage owner to determine if situations can be resolved without e city tearing down the structures.

City code enforcement officer Don Doerschlag says the response has been positive. His hours will be doubled to 20 hours per week in January.

An eastern Kansas teenager is expected to recover after being shot in the leg by a Miami County sheriff’s deputy after the boy charged at officers with a baseball bat.

Undersheriff Wayne Minckley says a woman called the sheriff’s department Friday morning and said her 15-year-old adopted son was fighting with his father at their home six miles north of Paola.

Minckley says the boy threw a pick ax at the responding officers’ vehicles before going after them with a bat.

The officers tried to subdue the boy with a Tazer but weren’t successful. A sergeant fired his revolver once and hit the teen in the upper leg after the youth struck two officers in the arm with the bat.

The officers were treated for their injuries and released.

A New York congressman wants to take the “For Sale” sign off the Plum Island animal disease lab.

In a letter this week, Rep. Timothy Bishop argues it is ludicrous for the federal government to be spending as much as $1 billion to construct a new laboratory in Manhattan, Kan. The lab will study diseases that could devastate the country’s livestock industry. Bishop says a “perfectly good” facility already exists off eastern Long Island.

The Long Island Democrat notes the National Academy of Sciences is again studying the suitability of placing a lab in the so-called “beef belt.” That study is due next summer.

Kansas officials, who recently authorized $45.4 million in bonds for construction, counter that there is no reason to turn back.

Kansas is preparing to start replacing the copper roof and dome of its Statehouse.

The work is an addition to an ongoing renovation of the building that has pushed the project’s projected cost to $319 million.

The Topeka Capital-Journal reports that 14 companies have applied for permission to bid on the roof and dome work, and only one is headquartered in Kansas. The work is expected to cost more than $21 million, and state legislators authorized bonds to cover the expenditure earlier this year.

The project has received intense criticism over projected costs that are more than triple some early estimates.

The state hadn’t initially planned to replace the aging copper on the roof and dome. Instead, it was repairing leaks, cracks and brittle joints.

The Northwest Kansas Technical College use of iPads has garnered the Goodland college national attention.

The Fast Company magazine named the technical college one of its “5 Technologically Decked-Out Schools You Wish You Went To.” Other schools on the list included Duke and Stanford.

Apple also recently spent a week in Goodland, filming a documentary about the school’s use of iPads.

The college’s Chief Information Officer Ben Coumerilh said he couldn’t give too many details about the documentary, other than to say it will be used as a marketing tool for how Apple’s products can be used in education.

Northwest Kansas Technical College began giving each of its students an Apple iPad in Fall 2010.