Coast Guard rescue — A Coast Guard helicopter crew has rescued a woman injured in a fall from a cliff at Lincoln Beach on the Oregon Coast. Petty Officer 3rd Class Nate Littlejohn said his agency responded after the Depoe Bay Fire Department called for help Friday, saying a 56-year-old woman had injured her leg, knee, hip and arm in a cliff fall. The helicopter lowered a rescue swimmer and a stretcher. With help from Depoe Bay paramedics, the rescue swimmer loaded the woman onto the stretcher and she was hoisted aboard the chopper. Littlejohn said the unidentified woman was taken to a Newport hospital. Her condition was not known.

Men float to rescue atop a Beemer — The Coos County sheriff’s office says two men floated on top of a partially submerged BMW for half a mile before they were rescued. Deputies say the car carrying two men ended up in a slough east of Coos Bay late Thursday night when the driver swerved to miss a deer. Authorities say neither the driver, 51-year-old Kevin Nelson of Coos Bay, nor his passenger was injured. Deputies say the two men sat atop the partially submerged 2008 BMW as it floated about a half mile. Then it submerged and the men jumped off. Local police and fire units also responded.

Man accused of attacking wife, killing lamb — Jackson County authorities arrested an Oregon man who they say attempted to rape his wife before killing a lamb. Sheriff’s spokeswoman Andrea Carlson says 46-year-old Leland Kinkey of Eagle Point was running around his property Thursday night naked, screaming and splattered with blood. Kinkey allegedly told deputies he slammed a lamb into a vehicle and then broke its neck because he was “trying to be a man.” Witnesses told police that Kinkey had earlier tried to rape his wife in front of their two children after getting angry with a vehicle. Carlson says two other adults who live on the property stopped the attack and called 911. Kinkey has been charged with assault, kidnapping, strangulation, attempted rape and aggravated animal abuse. Bail was set at more than $1 million.

— From wire reports