WICHITA, Kan. (AP) — Authorities are looking for a 51-year-old man accused of attacking his father’s live-in caretaker with a golf club and cane in Wichita.

According to police Lt. James Espinoza, a 49-year-old woman was transported by private vehicle to Wesley Medical Center early Wednesday with several injuries to her head and face. She is in serious condition.

Authorities say the woman told police the suspect attacked her when she would not give him his 89-year-old father’s benefits card. She says the suspect is occasionally at the house the she and his father share.

Espinoza said the victim told officers the suspect wanted to take money from the card to purchase narcotics.

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) — At least two Missouri judges are opting to not marry any couples following the historic U.S. Supreme Court decision legalizing marriage between same-sex couples.

Associate circuit judges Larry Winfrey and Steve Jackson of the southern Missouri county of Laclede say they won’t be marrying anyone.

Codes guiding judicial conduct in the state prohibit judges from discriminating in whom they marry. That means if judges don’t want to marry same-sex couples, they can’t marry opposite-sex couples, either.

Winfrey and Jackson say they don’t want to be caught up in the “dissention” the Supreme Court decision created.

CHICAGO (AP) — President Barack Obama’s chief of urban housing policy has announced new nationwide rules aimed at fulfilling the 1968 Fair Housing Act by promoting racially integrated neighborhoods.

Housing and Urban Development Secretary Julian Castro said Wednesday in Chicago that “federal efforts have often fallen short.” The news conference was held next to new public housing units on the city’s South Side.

The 1968 law required cities that receive federal housing money to promote equal opportunity and access to housing regardless of race, origin, religion, sex or disability.

The new rules provide guidance to help cities achieve that mandate, as well as data on integration and segregation patterns, racially and ethnically concentrated areas of poverty and areas of high housing need.

The department says the rules will be implemented in phases.

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) — Missouri soon will require child-proof packaging for liquid nicotine used in electronic cigarettes.

The measure signed Wednesday in St. Joseph by Democratic Governor Jay Nixon is aimed at making it more difficult for children to ingest chemicals in the liquid. Lawmakers have said that could prevent accidental poisonings.

Experts have said nicotine is especially dangerous for children.

Electronic cigarettes work by heating liquid nicotine into an inhalable vapor, which sometimes is flavored to taste like candy.

Retailers who violate the new law will face a $250 first-time fine. The fine is $500 for each additional offense.

The measure does not apply to liquid nicotine that’s been sealed by a manufacturer and isn’t intended to be opened by consumers.

DETROIT (AP) — Hyundai is recalling about 140,000 Sonata midsize cars in the U.S. and Canada to fix a problem with the front passenger seat belt buckles.

The recall covers cars from the 2015 model year that were built from April 25, 2014 until Dec. 4, 2014.

Hyundai says that if the metal tongue on the belt is forced into the buckle at an angle, the buckle can jam and won’t fasten.

A dashboard warning light will come on if the belt is not buckled. Hyundai says it has no reports of any injuries caused by the problem.

Dealers will either repair the buckle or replace it at no cost to owners. Hyundai says the repair will take less than an hour.

TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — Visitors to the Kansas Statehouse can bring concealed guns into the historic building without a state permit under a new state law.

The Wichita Eagle reports that the new law took effect July 1. It ended a requirement for residents 21 and older to obtain a state permit to carry concealed firearms.

The state last year began allowing people to carry concealed guns into the Statehouse if they had a permit.

Ending the permit requirement means someone no longer must undergo a background check or complete eight hours of firearms training to carry a concealed gun.

Supporters of the new law said Kansas residents should be able to exercise their constitutionally protected right to own and carry guns in the Statehouse. Critics have safety concerns.

COLUMBIA, Mo. (AP) — A Columbia man has been arrested on suspicion of choking and hitting girlfriend with a wooden banister.

A 37-year-old man was arrested Sunday and faces several charges including two counts of second-degree domestic assault and possession of a controlled substance.

According to Officer Latisha Stroer, the victim told police her boyfriend assaulted her during an argument that night. The woman said the suspect struck her with a 4-foot-long wooden banister on the shoulder, pushed her to the ground and tried to strangle her.

Stroer said the woman told officers the suspect threw her cellphone, cracking the windshield of her vehicle.

The suspect is being held at the Boone County Jail on a bond of $10,500.

SPRINGFIELD, Mo. (AP) — Springfield police say three people responded to a 14-year-old girl’s screams along a dark trail and stopped a 22-year-old man from raping her.

The Springfield News-Leader reports three friends were parking their car at a trail near Wilson’s Creek on Thursday night when they heard a girl screaming for help.

Police say they used a cellphone as a flashlight and found a man wearing only his boxer shorts lying on top of the girl.

The friends pulled the man off the girl and held him until officers arrived. Christopher Muller of Republic is charged with attempted rape and attempted statutory rape. He was being held in the Greene County jail on $250,000 bond.

Online court records indicate Muller has not yet obtained an attorney.