YELM – An offer of a ride from a Thurston County sheriff’s deputy wound up being a trip to jail for a man who apparently forgot what he had in his pocket, deputies said.

A deputy saw Jamie Dawley, 25, of Onalaska, walking near Highway 507 near Yelm Tuesday afternoon. He asked where he was going and offered him a ride to his destination near the Pierce County line if he would submit to a pat-down search, sheriff’s Capt. Bradley Watkins said.

Dawley accepted and began emptying his pants pockets. Out came plastic bags containing what the deputy believed were methamphetamine and a glass pipe.

He was booked for investigation of drug possession and released.

Moxee: Pet emu comes back home

Emma the pet emu is home again after nearly a year on the lam, and owner Diana Parker could hardly be happier. “I thought for sure she was gone,” Parker said. “She would’ve been a lovely Sunday roast for somebody.” Parker, 60, said her pet vanished while she was away in March, about six months after she got the 3-year-old bird. “I told everybody, ‘Look for my emu.’” After a week of fruitless searching, she gave up. Then, on Tuesday, a boy who lives nearby said he’d seen Emma on his way home from school.

Boise: Hemingway home offer rejected

BOISE, Idaho – An environmental group that owns the former home of Ernest Hemingway has rejected an offer from neighbors to buy the property. The board of The Nature Conservancy’s Idaho chapter voted Friday to move ahead with a plan to turn the 13-acre property near Sun Valley into a literary library and museum. It plans to open the home where the Nobel Prize-winning author shot himself in 1961 to tours. Neighbors fear the proposal would disrupt the residential character of the upscale Ketchum community have threatened a lawsuit, claiming a private driveway leading to the residence should be off limits to tourists.

Turner, Ore.: Ewe gives birth to 4 lambs

A ewe in this small Willamette Valley farming town has given birth to quadruplets, a rare event. Tim and Traci Burks, the ewe’s owners, said they were “flabbergasted” when they saw four lambs walking around on their 3-acre farm. Giving birth to one, two or three lambs isn’t uncommon, but four lambs happens once in 1,000 births, said Jim Thompson, a sheep specialist for the Oregon State University Extension Service. The ewe, whose name is Ribbon, gave birth to one white and three black lambs – two males and two females.