EMPORIA, Kan. (AP) — Hunter Brenda Doudican had to do a double take this month when she saw a bull elk wandering through a Lyon County clearing with deer.

The Emporia Gazette reported that the spotting led Doudican to obtain a permit on Dec. 12 to hunt elk, which are unusual in the area. She didn’t catch a glimpse of the elk that night, but the next morning she got a clear shot. She then completed the paperwork needed to have the animal processed. Doudican says she’s “still kind of in awe.”

Doudican began hunting with muzzle loader season. She continued with bow season and then followed with rifle season. She says she spent a great deal of time waiting and now feels it was worth it.

LAWRENCE, Kan. (AP) — University of Kansas Chancellor Bernadette Gray-Little says traditional liberal arts programs in subjects like literature, music and history are struggling for respect, recognition and funding.

The Lawrence Journal-World reports the chancellor was among a group of educators who addressed the Kansas Board of Regents on Thursday to discuss a report about liberal arts education. The Regents requested the report partly in response to messages from the Kansas Legislature and Gov. Sam Brownback urging Regents institutions to put more focus on programs that produce tangible benefits for the state’s economy.

It shows that people who earn a four-year bachelor’s degree earn significantly more than people with only a high school diploma.

It also found that people with liberal arts degrees tend to earn slightly less than those with professional degrees.

ELLIOT SPAGAT, Associated Press

SAN DIEGO (AP) — The search for documents is on for immigrants who may qualify for a work permit and reprieve from deportation under measures President Barack Obama announced last month.

Applicants must prove they were in the country continuously since January 2010 — a tall order for many accustomed to avoiding trails. For critics, conditions are ripe for fraud.

The administration has not said which documents it will accept, but advocates are taking guidance from a 2012 reprieve for immigrants who came to the country as young children. The Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program allows vehicle registrations, baptism records, mortgages, postmarked letters — and those are just some suggestions from the agency.

Denver immigration attorney Laura Lichter suggests using movie rental receipts, veterinarian bills and customer loyalty programs that detail purchase histories.

MANHATTAN, KAN. – U.S. Senator Jerry Moran (R-Kan.) – a member of the Senate Appropriations Agriculture Subcommittee – today welcomed the news that U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Secretary Tom Vilsack will not move forward with the creation of a new beef checkoff program under the Commodity Promotion, Research and Information Act of 1996. Last month, Sen. Moran sent a letter to Sec. Vilsack expressing his deep concern with USDA creating a new checkoff under the 1996 Act against the wishes of cattle producers.

“I am pleased that USDA will not move forward with the creation of a new beef checkoff,” Sen. Moran said. “Changes to the beef checkoff should be supported by producers, not forced upon them administratively by the federal government. I appreciate that Secretary Vilsack listened to the voices of cattle producers from across the country who clearly objected to a new checkoff.”

Last month, Sen. Moran called on Sec. Vilsack to listen to feedback from producers in Kansas and across the country who have real concerns about the creation of a new beef checkoff under the Commodity Promotion, Research and Information Act of 1996.

“Cattlemen have been loud and clear in their objections to a new beef checkoff,” Sen. Moran said when he sent his November letter to Sec. Vilsack. “I am deeply concerned that USDA is ignoring the voices of producers.”

KANSAS CITY – A Kansas woman was injured in an accident just after 6 p.m. on Friday in Wyandotte County.

The Kansas Highway Patrol reported a 2002 Jaguar X driven by Charles O. Bailey Jr., 46, Kansas City was southbound on Interstate 635 just north of Kansas Avenue.

Another, unknown vehicle made a lane change, struck the Jaguar causing it to spin out and strike the barrier wall. The other vehicle left the scene.

A passenger in the Jaguar Rhonda M. Cunningham-Green, 48, Kansas City was transported to Shawnee Mission Medical Center. Bailey Jr. was not injured.

The KHP reported both were properly restrained at the time of the accident.

The accident remains under investigation.

DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — U.S. Sen. Chuck Grassley says U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder will personally review the case of an Iowa man who drowned while in a Missouri state trooper’s custody.

Grassley said Friday he recently spoke with Holder about 20-year-old Brandon Ellingson’s drowning in late May on the Lake of the Ozarks. He says the attorney general told him he would personally review information about the case before providing it to staff attorneys at the U.S. Justice Department.

Witnesses say Ellingson had been detained on suspicion of boating while intoxicated. He was handcuffed when he slipped through a life jacket and drowned.

A jury ruled the death an accident during a coroner’s inquest in September. Ellingson’s family says there are unanswered questions about the circumstances of the death.

LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — Nebraska and Oklahoma are asking the U.S. Supreme Court to declare Colorado’s legalization of marijuana unconstitutional.

Nebraska Attorney General Jon Bruning announced Thursday that the states are seeking a court order to prevent Colorado from enforcing a measure that was approved by voters in 2012. Bruning says Oklahoma Attorney General Scott Pruitt is also a party to the lawsuit.

The complaint alleges that Colorado’s Amendment 64 runs afoul of federal law.

Washington state also has legalized marijuana, but Bruning says Nebraska isn’t suing over that law because it doesn’t share a border with Washington.

Colorado Attorney General John Suthers says in a statement that the lawsuit is without merit. He says his office will vigorously defend the marijuana law in the U.S. Supreme Court.