TOM RAUM, Associated Press

WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. Postal Service says it’s the victim of a cyberattack and that information about its employees, including Social Security numbers, may have been compromised.

The FBI and other federal agencies are investigating.

Postal Service spokesman David Partenheimer says personal information that may have been obtained in the attack includes employees’ names, dates of birth, Social Security numbers, addresses, emergency contacts and other information.

However, he also says the customers at local post offices or those using its website, usps.com, were not affected. However, people who used its call center may have had telephone numbers, email addresses and other information compromised.

The agency isn’t recommending that those customers take any action.

TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — Nonprofit groups say they are looking forward to raising money from charity raffles, after voters approved a constitutional amendment clarifying that the raffles are legal.

However, the nonprofit groups are waiting to see what new rules lawmakers will write for the raffles during the next legislative session.

The Kansas Department of Revenue says lawmakers will consider such issue as whether nonprofits will need a license, how often raffles can be conducted and whether raffle sales will be taxed.

The Wichita Eagle reports new regulations likely would take effect in July 2015.

Voters passed the amendment last week by an overwhelming 75 percent.

LAWRENCE, Kan. (AP) — The University of Kansas Foundation is planning to buy the school a new airplane, with a potential cost of $8.1 million.

Endowment President Dale Seuferling acknowledges that is a lot of money but notes the new plane will last for 15 to 20 years. The plane, a Cessna Citation CJ4 business jet, will replace one the university bought 17 years ago.

The Lawrence Journal-World reports the university owns one plane, plus a share in another. The endowment funded both of those purchases, with Kansas paying ongoing expenses.

The planes are mostly used by the University of Kansas Medical Center’s medical outreach for rural Kansas. Administrators and university athletics recruiters also use them.

The school hopes to be using the new jet by the end of this year.

TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — The Kansas State Board of Education is expected to vote on its final choice for state education commissioner Thursday.

The state is seeking a replacement for Diane DeBacker, who left her position in May to become an adviser to the director general of the Abu Dhabi Education Council in the United Arab Emirates.

The Lawrence Journal-World (http://bit.ly/13WBu9l ) reports that four candidates are vying for the job. They include Georgia Schools Superintendent John Barge, who unsuccessfully challenged Georgia Gov. Nathan Deal in the spring primary. Also on the list is associate Shawnee Mission school district superintendent Gillian Chapman, interim Kansas education commissioner Bradley Neuenswander and McPherson school district superintendent Randall Watson.

The candidates were interviewed last week.

LAWRENCE, Kan. (AP) — The Dole Institute of Politics is planning a panel discussion about police militarization in the U.S.

On Monday night, experts will talk about the appropriateness of using equipment usually reserved for battlefields in neighborhoods.

Dole Institute Director Bill Lacy said in a news release that the subject is timely after police outfitted in paramilitary gear clashed with protesters in Ferguson, Missouri. The protests erupted in August after a white officer shot and killed a black 18-year-old.

The event is free and open to the public. The Dole Institute’s Student Advisory Board also is involved in the event.

WICHITA, Kan. (AP) — The number of small banks in Kansas and the U.S. continues to shrink at a significant rate.

Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. data shows that between June 30, 2004, and June 30, 2014, the number of Kansas-based banks with assets less than $100 million declined 44 percent. The Wichita Eagle reports that the data also showed the number of small banks in the nation declined by 54 percent in the same period.

Officials said the decline is mostly the result of mergers and acquisitions. But Chuck Stones, president of the Kansas Bankers Association, said there are other reasons. He said one example is when a bank owner wants to retire and has no children willing to take over the family bank.

TOPEKA – A Kansas man was injured in an accident just after 10 a.m. on Sunday in Shawnee County.

The Kansas Highway Patrol reported a 2010 Dodge Stratus driven by Anthony W. Etheridge, 25, Centerville, was westbound on Interstate 470 at 17th Street in the left lane.

For an unknown reason the vehicle left the highway onto the inside shoulder. The driver over corrected and the vehicle went back onto the highway, struck a semi-trailer and drove off into the median.

Etheridge was transported to St. Francis Hospital.
The KHP reported he was properly restrained at the time of the accident.