Kyle Cooper

3 days ago | wtop.com | Kyle Cooper

Motorists and pedestrians have a new challenge in downtown Silver Spring, Maryland, thanks to the latest phase of Purple Line construction. This page contains a video which is being blocked by your ad blocker. In order to view the video you must disable your ad blocker. Until middle to late August, Wayne Avenue at Fenton Street near the Silver Spring Library is closed so workers can lay track and make other Purple Line improvements.

3 days ago | wtop.com | Kyle Cooper

If you find yourself on Capitol Hill in this heat wave, you can find some relief at a bit of a strange-looking piece of D.C. history. Daniel Olawale, of Malaysia, is visiting D.C. and the eight-sided Summerhouse, which was built on the West grounds of the U.S. Capitol back in the 1880s. He said it’s definitely cooler inside. “Oh yeah, it’s much cooler, outside it’s just scorching hot,” he said.

4 days ago | wtop.com | Kyle Cooper |Ciara Wells

This page contains a video which is being blocked by your ad blocker. In order to view the video you must disable your ad blocker. A D.C. man accused of doing doughnuts and driving recklessly on the National Mall on Saturday told police it was “just a joke,” and he’s facing charges of fleeing law enforcement and reckless driving. A judge ordered Curtis Lear, 30, to be held without bond after he appeared at the D.C. Superior Court Monday.

1 week ago | wtop.com | Kyle Cooper

Juneteenth is being marked across the area today with celebrations, including a Freedom Walk in D.C. Singing “We Shall Overcome,” several hundred people walked up M Street Southeast across the 11th Street Bridge and into the heart of Anacostia. In front of the procession, a large handmade green, red, black and gold sign read, “Black erasure, we say ‘no.'”Ronald Respur, who lives in Virginia, was part of the walk.

1 week ago | wtop.com | Kyle Cooper

The prestigious James Beard Food awards were handed out Monday night in Chicago, Illinois, and a D.C. chef has taken home a top honor. In the category of best chef in the mid-Atlantic, the winner proved to be Carlos Delgado, of Northwest D.C.’s Causa and Amazonia. “I just want to thank my whole team, everybody that believes in us, that believed in us since day one,” Delgado told the crowd gathered at the Lyric Opera House.