KMKyle Melnick

1. Article · Sep 24, 2026 · Kyle Melnick, The Washington Post

   A runaway goat damaged cars and fled police. Now he’s found his herd. (opens the original)

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   For months, police in Ohio heard the same complaint: A runaway goat was jumping on top of parked cars, scratching and denting them. So when Dayton police got a call last month that the goat had escaped again and was roaming the streets, three officers raced to the scene to try to catch the culprit. “I wanted to find the goat so I could pet it, mostly,” Sgt. Salli Jones said. “But also, you know, it is a problem if things are getting damaged.” The officers chased the goat on foot on a hum

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2. Article · Sep 17, 2026 · Kyle Melnick, The Washington Post

   Some people hate pigeons. This couple’s bird tour aims to change that. (opens the original)

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   Brower, a birdwatcher, said her neighbor somehow convinced her to take the pigeon - which couldn’t fly and seemed malnourished - home in a cardboard box. She had never before been interested in the birds sometimes called “rats with wings.” At home, the bird lounged on Brower’s shoulder and lap while Brower fed her seeds and searched online for wildlife rehabilitators. “She took my heart right away,” Brower said about the pigeon she named Primrose. She sent Primrose to a rehabilitator

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3. Article · Jul 28, 2026 · Kyle Melnick, The Washington Post

   This grandma fought for a bill to allow happy hour at retirement homes (opens the original)

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   Anita LeBrun wanted to drink a glass of pinot grigio with her friends at their retirement home. She was a regular at the facility’s semiweekly happy hours, but she thought it was ridiculous that they were dry. Minnesota law prohibited retirement homes from serving alcohol without an additional license. “Everybody enjoyed it so much,” LeBrun, 82, said about the happy hours. “I just wanted it to happen that we could have, you know, a couple drinks.” So LeBrun became the face of a movemen

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4. Article · Jul 23, 2026 · Kyle Melnick, The Washington Post

   What is short spine syndrome? Jimothy the raccoon may have this rare condition. (opens the original)

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   When conservation biologist Julian Avery recently saw an Instagram video of a round creature with disproportionately long legs scampering across the ground, he had questions. Mostly: “What is that?” As Avery looked closer, he identified the animal as a raccoon with a spinal abnormality he had never seen in the wild. Avery joined millions of people across the internet who were confused, fascinated and ultimately cheering for the odd-looking raccoon, who lives in Seattle. Kiana Hall, who poste

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