WICHITA, Kan. (AP) — A 52-year-old man has been arrested after his common-law wife said he held her hostage for three days in Wichita.

Lt. James Espinoza said officers went to a residence Wednesday to check on a 29-year-old woman’s welfare after the family that employs her reported that she had not been showing up for work. Authorities say the man at the home told officers the woman had gone to work.

Police managed to contact the woman, who said she had been held hostage. Espinoza said she had been released an hour before officers arrived and went to a friend’s house to call 911. According to Espinoza, the suspect was taken into custody but complained of chest pains and was transported to a hospital.

He will be taken to Sedgwick County Jail on suspicion of aggravated assault, aggravated kidnapping and criminal threat.

MANHATTAN – Two people were injured in an accident just after 7:30 p.m. on Thursday in Riley County.

The Kansas Highway Patrol reported a 2004 Chevy Silverado driven by Roberto Pedro Carlos Mendiola, 25, Junction City, was northbound in the 2100 Block of McDowell Creek Drive four miles southwest of Kansas 177.

The vehicle traveled to the right and into the east ditch.

Passengers in the Silverado Leticia Jo Martinez, 20, Junction City, and a 1-year-old child were transported to Via Christi.

The KHP reported Mendiola was possibly injured but not where he was treated.  He was arrested by the KHP for DUI, refusal of preliminary breath test and improper driving on a laned roadway. Bond was set at $1,500, and he is currently confined at the Riley County Jail.

All were properly restrained at the time of the accident, according to the KHP.

WICHITA, Kan. (AP) — A bicyclist has been sentenced to nearly five years in prison for shooting a motorist in the face in a fit of road rage last year in Wichita.

Twenty-nine-year-old Jonathan Newcomb was sentenced Thursday to 59 months in prison and ordered to pay more than $19,600 in restitution. He had pleaded guilty to attempted intentional second-degree murder on June 8.

According to prosecutors, Newcomb was riding a bicycle on Aug. 13, 2014, when he and Luis Leon-Olmos nearly collided. Newcomb tried to cross the driveway of a parking lot when Leon-Olmos’ pickup attempted to turn.

A confrontation ensued and prosecutors say video surveillance shows Newcomb pulling out a pistol from a holster and shooting Leon-Olmos in the face. Leon-Olmos lost his left eye in the shooting.

Newcomb was arrested a short time later.

LAWRENCE, Kan. (AP) — The memorial service on Sunday for former University of Kansas Chancellor Robert Hemenway will be streamed online and broadcast at the Lied Center, where overflow seating will be available.

The Lawrence Journal World reports the service for the university’s 16th chancellor will start at 2 p.m. Sunday at the Dole Institute of Politics. A reception in the Lied Center’s main lobby will follow.

Hemenway died July 31 at a Lenexa nursing home from complications of Parkinson’s disease. He was 73.

His family asks that memorial contributions be made in lieu of flowers to the Robert E. Hemenway Scholarship fund, handled by the KU Endowment Association.

Hemenway served as chancellor from 1995 to 2009.

The university will provide the live video stream at journalism.ku.edu/live/doleinstitute

JOYCE M. ROSENBERG, AP Business Writer

NEW YORK (AP) — A majority of small-businesses owners are unaware of an impending shift that could leave them liable for fraud committed with a new generation of chip-imbedded credit cards.

That’s the finding of a survey by Wells Fargo & Co., which asked 600 small-business owners about the Oct. 1 deadline to get card readers and software to handle the new credit cards. Retailers and other businesses without equipment to handle the cards could be liable starting Oct. 1 if a customer commits fraud with a chip card.

But in the Wells Fargo survey, only 49 percent of owners of businesses that use card readers for transactions said they were aware of the deadline.

TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — The largest electric company in Kansas has reached an agreement with a consumer advocacy agency and other parties to scale back a proposed increase in the utility’s annual rates to $78 million.

Westar Energy Inc. announced Thursday that it had a settlement with the Citizens’ Utility Ratepayers Board, the staff of the Kansas Corporation Commission and all other parties in its rate case. Westar had sought a $152 million rate increase.

The KCC sets utility rates and must sign off on the deal.

Westar had said it needed a rate increase primarily to cover costs already incurred for power plant improvements mandated by federal air pollution standards.

The company said that under the agreement households will see their electric bills rise between $5 and $7 a month.

HUTCHINSON – Law enforcement authorities in Reno County continue to search for a person of interest in connection with a hit and run accident on June 25 in Hutchinson.

Police in Hutchinson are asking for help finding 33-year-old Daniel S. Chitwood. He stands 5-11, weighs 170 pounds with blonde hair and hazel eyes.

Police say they believe he is in the Hutchinson area and is wanted for questioning as they investigate the hit and run of Connie’s IDK Eatery at 1228 E 4th Street.

You’re asked to contact the Hutchinson Police Traffic Bureau at 694-2854 or Crime Stoppers at 800-222-TIPS. The case number is 2015-16271