ALEX VEIGA, AP Business Writer

Some lenders are preparing to reissue credit or debit cards to customers to head off possible losses following the breach of customer data at Home Depot.

Kansas Governor Sam Brownback on Wednesday announced the appointment of Douglas P. Witteman to the 4th District Court of the State of Kansas. Witteman will fill a vacancy created by the retirement of Judge Thomas H. Sachse on the court.

Witteman resides in LeRoy, Kansas and currently serves as the Coffey County Attorney. He received his law degree from Washburn University School of Law in 1991.

The 4th District Court includes Anderson, Coffey, Franklin, and Osage counties.

TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — A Lawrence man has pleaded guilty to embezzling about $1 million from his company and business partners over a 10-year period.

The U.S. Attorney’s office says 55-year-old Mark Elzea agreed to pay restitution under terms of the plea he entered Wednesday in federal court.

Elzea was the controller and part-owner of a Lawrence janitorial and cleaning equipment business called Pur-O-Zone. He admitted that he began stealing from the company and his three business partners in 2004.

The crime was discovered earlier this year when a vendor contacted one of the co-owners about not receiving a check. Prosecutors said the partners then discovered numerous unauthorized checks that Elzea had written to a credit card company.

Elzea faces up to 10 years in federal prison. The sentencing is set for Dec. 19.

BRANDON BAILEY, AP Technology Writer

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Apple has stopped providing an update to its new iOS 8 mobile operating software, following complaints that the update interferes with users’ ability to make phone calls.

The iOS 8.0.1 update released Wednesday morning was intended to fix some earlier glitches in the new software for iPhones and iPads that Apple released last week.

But along with blocking calls, some users have also complained the update interferes with Apple’s Touch ID system, which lets people unlock their phones with their fingerprint.

Apple says it’s pulling back the update as it investigates the reports. The company says it plans to issue advice to users “as quickly as we can.”

Meantime, users are still able to the upgrade older phones to last week’s version of iOS 8.

DAVID CRARY, AP National Writer

For weeks, amid the allegations involving several NFL players, domestic violence has been the focus of intense national attention. Does the turmoil reflect a worsening epidemic of domestic violence, or has the U.S. in fact made great strides to curtail it? The answer is complicated.

On one hand, domestic violence committed by intimate partners — current or former spouses, boyfriends or girlfriends — has declined by more than 60 percent since the mid-1990s, according to Justice Department figures.

Yet that dramatic decrease has largely stalled, with the numbers stabilizing at a level that appalls people in the prevention field. The latest federal figures for “serious” intimate partner violence — sexual assault or aggravated physical assault — showed 360,820 such incidents in 2013, or roughly 1,000 per day.

JEFFERSON CITY (AP) – A judicial evaluation committee is urging voters to keep all 50 nonpartisan judges up who are up for this year’s retention elections.

The Missouri Bar on Wednesday released positive results from a review of those judges up for election Nov. 4.

But three judges from St. Louis County only received support after appealing poor reviews. Associate circuit judges Judy Draper, Dennis Smith and Patrick Clifford all received among the lowest scores statewide in the evaluation.

Ratings only are done for judges appointed by the governor to the Supreme Court, the state’s three court of appeals and trial courts in the St. Louis, Kansas City and Springfield areas. Those judges face retention elections for voters to decide whether they should keep their positions.